Testing in the ATC makes it all real

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.

Dedicated environments

Dedicated environments

Cyber Lab

Test software and hardware against real world situations in a multi-tenant, completely secure environment that can validate security tools, simulate live malware and serve as a proving ground.

Dedicated environments

Next-Gen Composition Lab

Accelerate provisioning and testing in this multi-vendor, fully equipped environment that includes blade chassis, rackmount servers, edge compute, composable compute, GPU, DPU, and various NICs. 

Testing Capabilities in the ATC

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