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Testing Capabilities in the ATC

Testing in the ATC makes it all real. As an example, we use enterprise-class traffic generation tools, such as Ixia IxLoad, to simulate the applications that are unique to your organization to show how a solution seamlessly integrates into your network. Over the years we have developed a testing framework that allows us to go from concept to test plan to achieve the outcome needed for your product or solution evaluation.

Network Technologies Tested:
  • Data Center Fabric Product Comparison
  • Cisco ACI Data Center Fabric Evaluation
  • Cisco NXOS Data Center Validation
  • Cisco NXOS Single Device Validation
  • SD-WAN Product Comparison
    • Cisco Viptela, HPE Silver Peak, Palo Alto, VMware Cloudgenix
  • Cisco Campus Catalyst Validation
  • Cisco Viptela Hardware/Software Validation
  • F5 LTM Hardware/Software Validation
  • F5 GTM Hardware/Software Validation
Application Delivery Controller Testing
  • Server Load balancing and SSL Offload testing
Application Layer Traffic Testing
  • Layer 4 through 7 real world application testing
IntelligentWAN / Failover Testing
  • Layer 2 through 3 traffic patterns for simulatedWAN and Failover testing
  • Throughput and Latency
Traffic Impairment / WAN Emulation
  • WAN Emulation and Latency Injection
  • Packet corruption and alterations

Key Testing Tools

NGFW Testing

  • Security and Threat testing
  • Throughput and Maximum Connections Per Second
  • Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Checkpoint

End Point Security Testing

  • Microsoft Defender, Carbon Black, Crowdstrike, McAfee, SentinelOne, Cybereason, Palo Alto Cortex, Broadcom

SSL Inspection Testing

  • F5, AVI

Key Testing Tools:

  • Ixia Breaking Point and Perfect Storm
  • Spirent Cyber Flood
  • Mandiant Security Solutions
HCI Performance and Validation Testing
  • Disk I/O workloads for validating performance
  • Validating Read/Write Distribution
  • Dell, Cisco, Nutanix

Compute Power Testing

  • Dell, HPE, Cisco

(VCF) VMware Cloud Foundation

(NSX) VMware  

VDI End User Compute Testing

  • VMware, Citrix

Key Testing Tools

  • VDBench
  • SpecPower
  • SpecCPU
  • LoginEnterprise
  • HCI Bench
  • Burnin Pro
Functional Storage Testing
  • DellEMC, Pure Storage, NetApp
Performance Storage Testing
  • DellEMC, Pure Storage, NetApp

(RAS) High Availability Storage Testing

  • DellEMC, Pure Storage, NetApp

Storage Migration between platforms

  • DellEMC, Pure Storage, NetApp

Data Protection

  • Cohesity, Veeam, Rubrik

Software-Defined Storage

  • DellEMC, NetApp

Object Storage Testing

  • DellEMC, NetApp

(SAN)  Storage Area Network Fabric

  • Cisco MDS
Flash Storage Testing
  • Disk I/O workloads for validating performance
Object Storage Testing
  • Validating Read/Write Distribution with latency injection

Key Testing Tools

  • VDBench
  • CosBench
  • SQL database change rate
  • Oracle database change rate

Technologies:

  • (CCE) Cisco Contact Center Functionality
  • (CCE) Cisco Contact Center Upgrades\Migrations
  • Cisco UC Functionality
  • Cisco UC Upgrade\Migrations

Testing Platforms:

  • Soft Phones
  • Physical Phones
  • Various User Endpoints