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LTE Testing - Network Performance, Security, and Stability at Massive Scale
The Breakingpoint CTM products offer a solution for telecom carriers to test and validate LTE/4G networks by emulating millions of users under real-world conditions while maintaining cost-effectiveness. These products provide capabilities for high-performance simulations, security attacks, and malware testing, enabling carriers to enhance the performance, security, and stability of their network infrastructure. With user-friendly interfaces and extensive automation, the Breakingpoint CTM significantly simplifies complex testing processes for large-scale mobile networks.
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- 1. BreakingPoint LTE At-A-Glance TestLTE/4G Network Performance, Security, and Stability at Massive Scale BreakingPoint CTM™ Products Emulate Millions of Users to Reduce Cost and Complexity of Validating LTE Network Infrastructure Telecom carriers rolling out Long Term Evolution (LTE) and 4G With a BreakingPoint CTM, you can: networks must test mobile infrastructures efficiently and accurately • Measure and harden the performance, security, and stability under punishing real-world conditions, without spending a fortune of load balancers, firewalls, IPS devices, and other equipment to do so. BreakingPoint CTM products answer this challenge with with up to 120 gigabits per second of application, attack, and the industry’s most sophisticated and cost-effective Internet-scale malformed traffic. LTE emulation. • Validate network and data center performance by re-creating These products allow carriers to test their networks and the devices more than 150 application protocols, including Twitter Mobile, within them against the behavior of millions of simulated users AOL® IM, Yahoo!® Mail and Messenger, Google® Gmail, Skype®, downloading rich media content, placing calls, purchasing music, BitTorrent™, eDonkey, RADIUS, SIP, RTSP, RTP, HTTP, SSL, browsing the Web, or unknowingly sharing the latest malware. A Facebook®, YouTube®, and Apple® FaceTime®, as well as other BreakingPoint CTM replaces racks of equipment and complicated mobile, social, and gaming protocols—with Multicast support. setup processes with a single-chassis device and a single user • Stress network infrastructures with more than 4,500 security interface (shown below). attacks and 28,000 pieces of malware—including more than 100 pieces of mobile malware—plus obfuscations and Unprecedented Performance and Massive Scale in a Cost- evasions. Effective Device • Find network problem areas sooner and prepare for the Based on a patented breakthrough in network processor unexpected with the industry’s fastest protocol fuzzing technology and backed by a team of network performance and capabilities. security experts, only a BreakingPoint CTM produces the city-scale LTE network conditions needed to harden carrier-grade network • Emulate sophisticated, large-scale DDoS and mobile-initiated resiliency. botnet attacks to uncover previously hidden weaknesses. BreakingPoint CTM™ Products Enable Configuration of Multi-Million-User LTE Infrastructure Tests from a Single-Screen Interface.
- 2. BreakingPoint LTE At-A-Glance The Solution for Simulating Multi-Million-User LTE Networks, with Additional 3G Capability The unique architecture of BreakingPoint CTM products delivers the huge performance numbers necessary to validate and harden even the largest LTE networks under the most realistic conditions, all from a turnkey solution, including: • Up to 90 million concurrent TCP sessions, allowing emulation of thousands of eNodeBs connecting to millions of devices such as smartphones, tablet computers, and netbooks. • Interactions among all the network elements involved in LTE communications, including user equipment (UE), eNodeBs, BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM Specifications Service Gateways (SGWs), Packet Data Network Gateways A single BreakingPoint FireStorm CTM provides the equivalent (PGWs), and Mobility Management Entities (MMEs). performance of many racks of servers from a 4U chassis, including: • A full Dynamic Host Control Protocol (DHCP) network, with • 120 gigabits per second of blended stateful application traffic support for both DHCP Client and DHCP Server processes. • 90 million concurrent TCP sessions • Support for both 3G and LTE environments with GTPv1 and • 4 million TCP sessions per second GTPv2. • 1.5 million steady-state complete TCP sessions per second Technological Breakthroughs from an Easy-to-Use Product • 120,000+ SSL sessions per second That Is Always Current • 150+ stateful application protocols BreakingPoint CTMs are designed for ease of use and rapid • 4,500+ live security attacks configuration in a variety of network environments. Because of their • 28,000+ pieces of malware exclusive design, they evolve along with the frequent changes in • 1 Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet interfaces the landscape for applications, attacks, and telecom standards. With a BreakingPoint CTM, you will: To learn more about all BreakingPoint products and services, visit www.breakingpoint.com/products. • Receive frequent updates from the BreakingPoint Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI) research team, which is dedicated Schedule a Demonstration Today to keeping applications and attacks current and providing Find out why the world’s largest service providers rely on frequent feature and performance enhancements. BreakingPoint to measure and harden the resiliency of their LTE • Employ built-in network traffic profiles—created using infrastructures. Visit data collected from top global telecom carriers—or easily www.breakingpoint.com/LTE. customize these profiles to fit your own network’s unique 1.866.352.6691 U.S. Toll-Free conditions. www.breakingpoint.com • Configure simulations in just minutes through a single user- friendly interface that features fully integrated reporting, even across multiple BreakingPoint CTMs. • Leverage extensive automation and wizard-like labs that address many use-case scenarios, including validation of Lawful Intercept and Data Loss Prevention solutions with a digital storm of content in multiple languages. Eliminate the complexity of conventional testing approaches and replace it with the simplicity, power, and precision of the BreakingPoint CTM. www.breakingpoint.com © 2005 - 2011. BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The BreakingPoint logo is a trademark of BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
- 3. BreakingPoint LTE At-A-Glance Technical Specifications • North American Wireless Carrier Weeknight • North American Wireless Carrier Weeknight with iPhone • Sandvine Mobile Internet Report – Caribbean / Latin America Devices Emulated: • Sandvine Mobile Internet Report – Europe • eNodeBs + UEs • Sandvine Mobile Internet Report – North America • PDN Wireless Reporting Statistics: • MME • UE Attach Requests Sent / Accepted / Failed • SGW + PGW + PDN • UE Detach Requests Sent / Successes • eNodeBs + UEs + MME, SGW + PGW + PDN • S1AP Setup Requests / Successes • SGSN + UEs • S1AP Reset Requests Received / Reset ACKs Sent • GGSN + PDN • SCTP Open Requests / Open Successes Interfaces Supported: • SCTP Close Requests / SCTP Close Successes • S1-U (eNodeB and SGW sides) • GTP Create Requests Processed • S1-MME (eNodeB side) • GTP Create Responses Processed • SGi (PDN side) • GTP Delete Requests Processed • S11 (MME and SGW sides) • GTP Delete Responses Processed • Gn (SSGN and GGSN sides) • GTP Client Side Tunnels Wireless Protocols Supported: • GTP Client Side Sent / Received Data • S1AP • GTP Server Side Tunnels • GTP-C v1, GTP-C v2, GTP-U v1 • GTP Server Side Sent / Received Data • SCTP (over UDP or IP) Other Features: Performance (per FireStorm blade): • LTE specification supported: v9 • Up to 4,000 eNodeBs • All security strikes and live malware supported over LTE and 3G • Up to 3,000,000 UEs • Specific mobile malware support • Up to 3,000,000 concurrent GTP tunnels • All application protocols supported • Up to 1,800 UE registrations/sec on the S1 interface • Can emulate multiple device instances concurrently (MME, • Up to 225,000 UE registrations/sec on the S11 interface SGW, GGSN, SSGN) • Up to 13 Gbps GTP-encapsulated application traffic • Automatic generation of IMSI, MSISDN, and UE secret keys • Up to 11 (1 default + 10 dedicated) bearers / UE Predefined Mobility Application Profiles: • Mobile User • European Wireless Carrier Daytime • European Wireless Carrier Daytime with iPhone • European Wireless Carrier Weekday • European Wireless Carrier Weeknight • European Wireless Carrier Weeknight with iPhone • North American Wireless Carrier Weekday • North American Wireless Carrier Weekday Daytime • North American Wireless Carrier Weekday Daytime with iPhone • North American Wireless Carrier Weekday with iPhone www.breakingpoint.com © 2005 - 2011. BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The BreakingPoint logo is a trademark of BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
- 4. BreakingPoint LTE At-A-Glance Emulation Modes: www.breakingpoint.com © 2005 - 2011. BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The BreakingPoint logo is a trademark of BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
- 5. BreakingPoint LTE At-A-Glance Emulation Modes: www.breakingpoint.com © 2005 - 2011. BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All rights reserved. The BreakingPoint logo is a trademark of BreakingPoint Systems, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.