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Keysight's instantly scalable network test solution for zero trust in distributed cloud environments
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Highlights
- Realism
- create digital twin of users, applications, and attacks to replicate and test QoE in real-world network environments
- Native authentication
- send application and security traffic over authenticated sessions at high scale
- send application and security traffic over authenticated sessions at high scale
- Highly scalable
- supports millions of concurrent users and millions of connections per second that elastically scale up and down, enabling both resiliency and chaos testing
- supports millions of concurrent users and millions of connections per second that elastically scale up and down, enabling both resiliency and chaos testing
- Containerized agents
- deploy lightweight traffic agents as containerized pods on-prem, VMs, managed Kubernetes deployments, private or public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- deploy lightweight traffic agents as containerized pods on-prem, VMs, managed Kubernetes deployments, private or public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure)
- Lab and live network testing
- test performance and security both pre-deployment in a lab or safely in live production networks
- test performance and security both pre-deployment in a lab or safely in live production networks
- Flexible
- portable subscription-based software solution with a robust and intuitive cloud-native GUI management dashboard
- portable subscription-based software solution with a robust and intuitive cloud-native GUI management dashboard
Deploy Lightweight Test Agents Across Physical and Cloud Environments to Deliver Unprecedented Insights
Are you delivering high-quality access to users, devices, and cloud services everywhere in your distributed, disaggregated networks? Is your cybersecurity infrastructure secure enough to limit exposure across your on- and off-prem networking? Are your security policies dynamically adjusting to autoscale events? Your perimeter-less, elastic, dynamic network requires a new testing paradigm.
Keysight CyPerf is an instantly scalable zero trust test solution for distributed cloud. This subscription-based software solution re-creates every aspect of a realistic workload across a variety of physical and cloud environments. CyPerf delivers unprecedented insights into end-user experience, security posture, and performance bottlenecks.
User Experience
Find the Right Balance
With any security architecture, the more features and functionality you enable or add, the more stringent the overall security becomes. But this can incur a cost in terms of performance, which eventually impacts user experience. Dynamic distributed environments with workloads that scale up and down with demand present new challenges when it comes to configuring and managing security infrastructure and policies.
CyPerf delivers elastically scaling traffic agents that you can set up and tear down dynamically during a test to validate auto-scale policies. This process enables you to fine-tune the balance between user experience and security.
Network Security
CyPerf Solves Your Real-World Test Challenges
Zero Trust Test
Traditional networks with a defined perimeter are easier to defend than perimeter-less distributed cloud networks. Today’s networks commonly employ zero trust models which assume you trust nothing and verify everything. Zero trust bases security on identity not perimeter and restricts any lateral network movement. Validating this complex infrastructure is challenging, so a completely new way to test network application and security is necessary.
Until now, there was no way to test whether a firewall performs as expected in a distributed zero trust environment. CyPerf gives network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) a way to validate their products by replicating real-world traffic that mirrors their customer’s actual deployments. CyPerf also enables enterprise IT teams to pro-actively and safely test their distributed networks to ensure optimal performance and security as they add new devices, tools and applications.
SD-WAN Optimization
Organizations need to ensure smooth deployment of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) infrastructure over complex topologies like physically distributed branches, clouds, and data centers. Testing is critical to get it right. But validating SD-WAN performance and security efficacy is challenging in today’s highly dynamic conditions that include a staggering number of cloud and hardware variables.
CyPerf recreates every aspect of a realistic workload across a variety of physical and cloud environments to simplify validation of software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) solutions and the bandwidth performance and QoE of various SD-WAN topologies, along with security efficacy of SD-WAN security offerings.
SASE Validation
The future of next-generation firewall technologies is in the cloud with secure access service edge (SASE). To ensure your deployment delivers the promised flexibility, cost savings, simplification, performance, and protection, you’ll need a new type of test tool.
Keysight’s CyPerf is Keysight´s agent-based test solution that recreates every aspect of a realistic workload, and security attacks like exploits, malware, and advanced threats across a variety of physical and cloud environments. It delivers insights into end user experience, cybersecurity posture, and performance bottlenecks of distributed networks. Test agents send application and attack traffic simultaneously through SASE solutions to validate the security efficacy of your SASE offerings and their impact on traffic performance.
Cloud Migration
In the rush to move to cloud networks, organizations are finding difficulty in rightsizing cloud and optimizing cost while minimizing user disruptions. Testing the performance of elastic environments and isolating bottlenecks is also challenging.
Install Keysight’s CyPerf agents in cloud instances to benchmark application performance of cloud instances that involve switching, natting, or going through internet gateways to another cloud location (multi-cloud topologies) or on-premises (hybrid topologies). Leverage CyPerf’s ability to elastically scale up per the policies of the auto-scale group that it is part of to accurately measure the performance and security impact of elastic scale up or down.
Additional CyPerf Use Cases
CDN Test
Maintaining security and consistent quality of experience (QoE) of geographically distributed points of presence (POPs) is a key challenge for content delivery network (CDN) vendors. You need a solution to validate change management, test new POPs before deployment, and detect problems early in complex CDNs.
CyPerf helps organizations verify service level agreements (SLAs), security offerings, rate limiting, and traffic policing to ensure high-performing CDN POPs. Evaluate POP performance KPIs and security efficacy as they are accessed from various geographically distributed locations to understand maximum and average latencies, caching efficiency, and load handling capacity like CPS, concurrency, and throughput.
SmartNIC
The SmartNIC market anticipates substantial growth propelled by technologies including cloud computing, security, hyperconverged data centers, and AI/ML. Customers considering adopting SmartNICs must gain a comprehensive understanding of the effectiveness and benefits offered by SmartNIC offloads compared to regular NICs. Keysight’s CyPerf, Keysight´s agent-based test solution to recreate realistic, scalable traffic and workloads helps to accurately quantify the efficacy of SmartNIC offloads. Deploy CyPerf’s lightweight agents in various physical, virtual cloud, or container SmartNIC operated environments.
WAF Test
Understanding your web application firewall (WAF) performance, deployment, and security efficacy is a competitive differentiator for organizations able to achieve it. The expectation is to get consistent performance and security from a WAF irrespective of its deployment mode (reverse/transparent proxy) the platform it’s deployed on (cloud, on-prem, hybrid) and balance quality of experience (QoE) with network security.
Keysight’s CyPerf is the agent-based test solution that uses test agents to simulate web clients and web servers that generate WAF and web attacks to test the performance and security efficacy of WAFs. The CyPerf WAF test offering helps validate a WAFs ability to block attacks such as OWASP Top 10 while allowing legitimate traffic to pass through uninterrupted.
Testing That Replicates Your Distributed Networks in Action
CyPerf simultaneously generates both legitimate traffic mixes and malicious activities across a complex network of proxies, software-defined wide area networks, TLS inspection, elastic load balancers, and web application firewalls. Combined with the unique ability to interleave applications and attacks to model user behavior and security breaches, it enables a holistic approach in replicating distributed customer deployment environments in half the time and with more fidelity than other solutions.
Extend the Capabilities
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CyPerf FAQs
CyPerf is a cloud-native network performance and security testing platform developed by Keysight. The Community Edition (CE) offers free, stateful, high-performance traffic generation with detailed metrics and support for connection-per-second (CPS) and concurrency — features aimed at modern, microservices-heavy environments. Please read the blog.
CyPerf CE provides core functionality like detailed stats, CPS, and concurrency, ideal for basic testing needs. The commercial version adds:
- Realistic application traffic (for example, Zoom, Outlook)
- Advanced security testing (exploit/malware simulation)
- Scalability to terabit-level performance and tens of agents
- Support for SSL VPN, IPsec, and zero trust validation
- Enhanced reporting, web-based UI, automation APIs, and expert support
Please read the blog.
CyPerf is designed for:
- CDN validation (SLA, latency, rate limiting across geo-distributed POPs)
- SmartNIC performance and offload validation
- WAF testing (OWASP Top 10 attacks and legitimate traffic throughput)
- Simulating realistic app + attack mixes over complex hybrid networks, including proxies, SD-WAN, TLS inspection, VPNs, and WAFs
CyPerf is a scalable, cloud-native test solution that replicates realistic workloads through lightweight agents deployed across physical, virtual, or cloud environments. It simulates authenticated and unauthenticated application traffic alongside integrated threat vectors, enabling holistic validation of hybrid, SASE, zero-trust, VPN, and WAF settings.
CyPerf CE is officially supported on:
- On-premise Linux VMs (Debian 12 / Ubuntu 22.04)
- AWS (C5n.2xlarge instances)
It is also compatible with Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes environments. Example usage includes bandwidth tests, CPS testing, and customized session counts via command-line flags.
Keysight offers a guided free test drive, including fully provisioned lab access and step-by-step exercises to explore CyPerf’s capabilities — particularly useful for assessing WAF performance and network security in cloud environments. Please read the blog.
Users — including startups and educators — have praised CyPerf CE for its deep TCP metrics, ability to reveal hidden configuration issues, and educational usability. For example, one network administrator noted that it helped uncover intermittent network misconfigurations, while an educator used it effectively in teaching network benchmarking.
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