PerfectStorm ONE 1GE/10GE Appliance

Enterprise-scale application and security testing — anywhere, anytime

Building upon the terabit-scale PerfectStorm platform, PerfectStorm ONE appliances offers enterprises, service providers, and technology vendors a revolutionary solution for generating stateful applications and malicious traffic, simulating millions of real-world end-user environments to test and validate infrastructure, a single device, or an entire system.

PerfectStorm ONE’s unique combination of portability, performance, and cost-effectiveness allows any organization to perform enterprise-scale performance and security testing anywhere, at any time, using the exact application, attack, and load behavior needed to optimize and harden any IT infrastructure.

PerfectStorm ONE facilitates network and security proof-of-concepts (POCs) and assessments, all in a compact device. This POC-in-a-box enables enterprises and service providers to select optimal devices and right-size data centers, as well as providing device vendors with a platform to fully showcase their product’s performance, resiliency, and throughput under real-world traffic loads.

The proliferation of dynamic and evolving applications, along with an increase in advanced malicious attacks, has created a dangerous lack of control and visibility into both the performance and security of IT infrastructures.

By seamlessly unifying the IxLoad and BreakingPoint software applications into a single enterprise-ready system, the PerfectStorm ONE solution now enables enterprises to take advantage of the performance and functionality service providers and equipment manufacturers use to test large network infrastructures.

The Keysight PerfectStorm ONE is the essential solution to:

• Evaluate network equipment to choose the right device for your unique network

• Right-size data centers and virtualized infrastructures for peak performance and capacity use

• Perform on-the-go cyber security research and simulations to keep ahead of the latest threats

• Deploy global compact cyber ranges to harden critical communication infrastructures

• Train and certify cyber warriors to predict and prevent attack

• Reduce time-to-test to minimize costs and accelerate development of network and data center devices

Highlights

• Enterprise-scale applications and security testing, anywhere, anytime

• Enterprise’s maximize investments in security devices and data center consolidation with POC testing

• Equipment vendors establish a scalable and 

• transportable POC lab for customer evaluations using custom traffic scenarios

• Unified architecture supports BreakingPoint and 

• IxLoad applications

• Software licensing upgrades enable affordable 4Gbps performance now with easy expansion for future needs of up to 80Gbps

• Compact form factor and reduced power requirements for customers that have a need for high performance, yet are constrained by lab space and power availability

• High-performance with hardware-based acceleration for SSL and IPsec

Key Features         

Large capacity and performance—small footprint and power needs

The world is becoming an always-connected, mobile environment, with massive volumes of traffic flowing through WANs, LANs, and data centers. The increase in network traffic scale, complexity, and types is causing a huge upswing in data center port counts and technology diversity.

Equipped with powerful multi-core, multi-threaded network processors, PerfectStorm ONE uses Keysight’s next-generation architecture designed to satisfy high-throughput testing needs. Due to its compact form factor and reduced power requirements, the PerfectStorm ONE is a great option for customers that have a need for high performance, yet are constrained by the space and power availability in their lab.

A single appliance allows control of up to 80Gbps of blended application traffic, 60 million concurrent connections, and new TCP connection rates of up to 2 million/sec. The hardware-based acceleration supports massive encryption levels with up to 40Gbps encrypted throughput per system. The system uses inline field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for enhanced accuracy pertaining to latency measurements with a resolution of 10ns and to deliver line-rate performance, including small 64-byte packets. Both IxLoad and BreakingPoint software solutions allow customers to increase the scalability by combining multiple appliances to the same test to drive operations, reporting, and results analysis from a single, unified user interface.