CloudStorm-XP 100GE Application and Security Test Load Module

Enterprise-Scale Application Delivery and Network Security Test Platform

Problem: An All-Encrypted World and Increasing User Experience Expectations

Massive concerns around security are driving an increased use of encryption. An all-encrypted world is not far away. At the same time, the scale of traffic continues to grow at an exponential rate and the industry is moving to new cloud-based architectures. Users of services and applications, however, continue to expect their experience to be at or above the current level.

To keep pace, network equipment manufacturers race to build higher-scale, more capable network security and application delivery solutions. In turn, the world’s largest Enterprise data center operators struggle to find the right balance between performance and security in today’s hyper-scale, dynamic world. The uncertainty that comes with this change is best mitigated through Enterprise-scale validation.

Each CloudStorm-XP load module supports two native QSFP28 100GE interfaces with an innovative architecture that allows concurrent emulation of complex applications, unprecedented SSL encrypted applications, and a large volume of DDoS traffic to validate your network infrastructure is high performing and secure. CloudStorm-XP achieving over 500+ Gbps of traffic with strong encryption and ciphers, 1.2 Tbps application traffic mix and 2.4 terabit DDoS throughput in a 12-slot single chassis. CloudStorm-XP is driven by Keysight’s BreakingPoint and IxLoad applications—industry-leading test solutions for application delivery and security resiliency testing.

Highlights

• Enterprise-scale under realistic traffic conditions, CloudStorm-XP enables multiterabit solution in a modular, using a pay-as-you grow approach

• Hardware-based SSL acceleration delivers 2X encryption performance of previous PerfectStorm generation

• Emulate multi-terabit DDoS and botnet attacks to future-proof security solutions

• Unified application and security test platform, with Layers 2-7 capabilities and support for BreakingPoint and IxLoad software

• Multi-rate ready: future-proof your investment with CloudStorm-XP; capable of supporting 100/50/40/25/10GE on a single port

• Multi-user environment leverages the per-port user ownership model for all ports on the test modules installed into the chassis

Product capabilities

CloudStorm-XP provides Enterprise-scale L4-7 application performance with fully integrated L2/3 stateless traffic support, for exercising the systems under test in real world conditions, helping the customers to easily identify the performance and interoperability issues. The modular architecture of the solution allows linear performance scaling to multi terabit, by populating a Keysight’s XGS12-HSL chassis with multiple CloudStorm-XP load modules—up to 12.

CloudStorm-XP packs massive SSL and IPsec performance, with capability to benchmark 500+ Gbps of encrypted traffic from a single fully populated XGS12 chassis. Powered by encryption hardware offload, CloudStorm-XP enables data center operators to find the right balance between security and end-user quality of experience as traffic is moving toward total encryption, with HTTP/2, 2/4k keys and ECC ciphers are adopted.

The proliferation of IoT poses new security risks, as highjacked IoT devices can easily be used to generate ground-breaking DDoS attacks. Also, network infrastructures need to be able to support billions of concurrent connections to service these IoT devices. CloudStorm-XP allows future-proof validation of cloud data center infrastructure and DDoS mitigation devices by simulating IoT device behavior under a deluge of legitimate IoT and botnet traffic. With the capacity to generate 700M concurrent sessions and 2.4 Terabits of DDoS traffic from a fully populated chassis, CloudStorm-XP allows organizations to assess their mitigation solutions, as well as people and process.