Spirent TestCenter Virtual provides high-performance functional and performance testing for virtual and physical network resources, enabling validation of NFV/cloud migrations. It supports various network speeds and traffic types while allowing for advanced testing topologies. The solution is compatible with major cloud platforms and offers extensive automation capabilities.

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Transform SDN and NFV
Network Validation
ƒƒ Spirent TestCenter Virtual delivers high rate layer 2-7
functional and performance testing of virtual and physical
network resources
ƒƒ Validates NFV / Cloud migrations by characterizing the
performance of virtual applications in a multitude of real-world
scenarios
ƒƒ Generates simultaneous LAN unicast, multicast, and VLAN
traffic along with SAN IO as well as stateful application
protocols such as HTTP and FTP
ƒƒ Comprehensive emulation protocols available for switching,
routing, access, SDN, DataCenter and applications
Best Throughput and Timing
Solution in the Market
ƒƒ The most advanced Virtual testing solution supporting various
speeds ranging from 1G, 2.5G, 5G, 10G, 25G and 40G
ƒƒ Allows benchmarking for RFC use cases which supports high
64byte performance per core
ƒƒ Enhanced NTP with new optimized timing library with precision
as low as 100 micro seconds
ƒƒ Supports “Burst mode” speeding up NTP synch from average
30 minutes to 1 minute
ƒƒ HTTP and TCP throughput generator with 5Gbps goodput and
~50k connections per second
Spirent TestCenter™ Virtual is the industry-leading L2 to L7 converged virtual test solution that optimizes the performance of network services and infrastructure.
It allows you to create advanced testing topologies emulating both scalable control plane and data plane to stress, both physical and virtualized network functions.
Using Spirent TestCenter Virtual, Service Providers world-wide ensure their network services adhere to SLAs and Data Center Operators deliver scalability and
resiliency to their next generation network applications and services.
Supports Best-in-Class Leading
Virtual and Cloud Platforms
ƒƒ Industry’s first containerized network test solution available
in Docker and LXC formats with up to 1Gbps throughput per
Container
ƒƒ Support for all leading hypervisors and cloud platforms like
KVM, VMware EsXi, Hyper-V, Oracle VM, OpenStack, Amazon
AWS and Microsoft Azure
ƒƒ Rich API support in various languages like Python, Perl, Tcl.
Support for High Level APIs like REST for easy integration into
existing automation frameworks such as ROBOT
ƒƒ 100% portability of test cases from hardware to virtual
platforms
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Spirent TestCenter Virtual Performance
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Functional and CI/CD High Performance Private and Public Clouds Data Center Scale Container-based DevOps
Spirent Virtual Solution