Ixia has completed performance validation testing for upcoming enterprise firewall products from Fortinet, including the world's first terabit firewall.
Ixia’s CloudStorm and BreakingPoint testing solutions were used to the performance of Fortinet’s recently announced FortiGate 3980E and 7060E enterprise firewalls.
The former enterprise firewall demonstrated 1 Tbps performance, and the latter delivered 100 Gbps of NGFW throughput.
Ixia’s CloudStorm, the first multi-terabit network security test platform, was selected by Fortinet to conduct very large-scale demonstrations and proof of concept validations to demonstrate real-world performance for their customers.
Ixia’s BreakingPoint application test solution emulates a real-world mix of network traffic at the terabit level and simultaneously scales bandwidth, connection rate and concurrent flows. This enables Fortinet customers to validate the capacity, efficiency, and resiliency of the Fortinet next gen firewall platforms, as well as make faster and more informed decisions in the vendor selection process.
CloudStorm simulates 2.4 terabits of mixed applications, as well as malicious traffic, to test the critical elements of complex data centers, including server applications, storage workloads, and network security devices.
As a result, it can validate the efficacy of the application and threat detection engines of NGFW, measure the impact of SSL traffic on performance, and assess DDoS mitigation techniques.