The Spirent Avalanche Virtual all-in-one cloud testing solution from Matrium Technologies tests and measures the performance, availability, security and scalability (PASS) of virtualised network infrastructures and applications, real or replayed, in the cloud.
The software, combined with the physical hardware of Avalanche, provides testing performance of firewalls, load balancers, servers and other devices through a single GUI.
The software provides native support for the most popular protocols and the ability to emulate, at scale, any captured protocol. Both client only and client/server emulation is provided. Client only emulates millions of users requesting application services, such as web, email, database, etc, deployed in virtual environments to measure the quality of experience (QoE) at cloud subscriber level. Client/server emulates millions of real-world subscribers (clients) and application services (servers) end to end to measure quality of service (QoS) and QoE impact on each infrastructure component.
Other features and benefits include: realistic user behaviour based on browser, authentication, task, timing, content validation etc, to interact with actual deployed applications; on-the-fly load adjustment to test the impact of a surge on application load and response times; and detailed run-time and post-run statistics to identify bottlenecks in the network and applications.