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TrafficREWIND — Regenerate Production Network Dynamics in the Lab

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Problem: Reproducing the Realism of Production Networks in the Lab 

 

Mirroring production network traffic in a controlled test environment has always been a time-consuming, complicated, and oftentimes frustrating process. Enterprise and service provider network operators as well as network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) waste valuable time and resources trying to replicate production network traffic conditions for fault analysis or to validate architectures and devices before deployment.

 

With today`s increasingly complex networks, dynamic applications, and user behavior, this translates into longer times to identify and fix issues.

 

Solution: Bolster BreakingPoint Traffic Realism with Network Insight

 

TrafficREWIND combines Ixia’s visibility and test expertise to deliver more-efficient service and network rollout by replicating production network traffic. 

 

TrafficREWIND translates production network insight into high-fidelity test traffic configurations that can be used in Ixia’s market-leading BreakingPoint application and security test solution. Ixia’s AppStack capabilities, available on Vision network packet brokers, include IxFlow, Ixia’s unique NetFlow extension, to feed application-level insights into TrafficREWIND. This rich NetFlow metadata includes a wide array of network activities, and application and device behavior seen in production networks.

 

TrafficREWIND Benefits

 

TrafficREWIND is a unique solution that translates production network traffic insights into real traffic stimulus for test environments, opening unprecedented possibilities:

• Faster fault analysis and reproduction capabilities

• Reference architectures and pre-deployment validation with production-like application mixes

• Relevant what-if scenarios by combining real production traffic with other test traffic including security strikes, incremental applications, or even fuzzing

 

Key Features

 

• TrafficREWIND is a unique solution that uses NetFlow metadata to translate production network insight into BreakingPoint test configurations

• Growing database of 101 different applications (encrypted and unencrypted) mapped to BreakingPoint canned Superflows

• Support for TLS encrypted traffic with explicit insights into encrypted and non-encrypted applications

• Store up to 7 days of network traffic metadata and export up to 1 day of traffic summary test configuration

• Preserve network traffic temporal behavior with unique 15-minute time intervals to record the corresponding production network application types and bandwidth distribution

• Upscale or downscale production traffic load using scale factors

• Contract the test duration using time factor multiplication for even faster validation (time expand factor is also available)

• Standalone or scalable distributed architecture supports multiple TrafficREWIND appliances acting as NetFlow collectors

 

Product Capabilities

 

TrafficREWIND is a virtual appliance that can be easily deployed anywhere in any production network. It offers a scalable real-time architecture to record and synthesize traffic characteristics over extended periods of time (up to 7 days), without legal- or compliance-related concerns in recording or sharing actual data payloads. This allows not only replicating the traffic profile with the associated real-world applications, but also adds an unprecedented test dimension of dynamically changing traffic composition over time to model the temporal nature of networks and applications.

 

Application Support

 

TrafficREWIND can recognize a growing database of 76 different and commonly used cleartext applications as well as 25 TLS encrypted applications, which are mapped to canned BreakingPoint Superflows.

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