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Agilent Technologies Announces Third-Generation Network Tester with Industry-Leading Traffic Generation, Protocol Breadth
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Solution Provides Real-World Security, Performance and Scalability Testing for Advanced Network DevicesCHICAGO, NXTcomm 2007, Booth 1526, June 18, 2007
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the new high-performance, high-port density model of its Network Tester Layer 4-7. Network equipment manufacturers and service providers can use the Agilent Network Tester to validate the real-world performance and scalability of network infrastructure equipment and ensure the security and availability of network services. This next-generation tester delivers the industry's highest traffic-generation capacity and a unique protocol breadth, enabling realistic and cost-effective security, performance and stress testing in modern networks. Today, equipment manufacturers and service providers must use real application traffic in mixes and volumes representative of live networks to measure the performance and scalability of a modern application-aware network, device or system. Generating high volumes of realistic application traffic and modeling real-world network conditions in test-lab environments is a challenging and complex task that often requires walls of hardware running different test applications. Agilent's Network Tester covers the industry's broadest range of natively supported network protocols and offers unprecedented performance. This allows users to simulate millions of real network clients while executing realistic application transactions at a scale sufficient to saturate even the most powerful modern network devices. This capability, coupled with the ability to generate network attacks, malicious exploits and traffic impairments, makes Network Tester the most reliable and cost-effective solution for validating performance limitations. Features include:
The new Agilent N4192A Network Tester has been successfully deployed at a number of Agilent customer labs worldwide, replacing walls of difficult-to-manage equipment and providing fast, reliable insight into device and network real-world security and performance characteristics. "Network Tester's real-world test capabilities combined with its high traffic-generation capacity helps us assure that our NetSensory application performance-management appliances can auto-discover, manage and optimize the performance of converged application traffic under conditions of extreme stress typical of customer network environments," said Mark Crane, engineering director of Network Physics. "We use the loading and traffic impairment features of Network Tester to validate our products' resilience to high levels of sophisticated network traffic, security configurations, and variety of malicious exploits encountered in modern networks." Further information about Agilent's N4192A NetworkTester solution is available at www.agilent.com/find/networktester. Product photos may be downloaded at www.agilent.com/find/nt_images. U.S. Pricing and Availability The Agilent N4192A Network Tester is available now. Pricing starts at approximately $30,000 for a high-performance traffic module equipped with four Gigabit Ethernet test ports. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is the world's premier measurement company and a technology leader in communications, electronics, life sciences and chemical analysis. The company's 19,000 employees serve customers in more than 110 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $5.0 billion in fiscal 2006. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. # # # Contact: Janet Smith, Agilent |
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