RELEASE SUMMARY IXIA BREAKINGPOINT 3.5, 8.0.1, AND 8.10 ...

RELEASE SUMMARY

IXIA BREAKINGPOINT? 3.5, 8.0.1, AND 8.10 FEATURES

FEATURE BRIEF

KEEP YOUR APPLICATION PROTOCOLS AND SECURITY CURRENT

UPGRADE TO A BETTER, FASTER BREAKINGPOINT

BreakingPoint users will want to leverage the new features and functionality as we extend our solutions. The charts that follow show enhancements for the past three major releases.

We've also been working hard on delivering BreakingPoint in a variety of form factors to fit the power and budget needs of our diverse user base. In addition to our PerfectStormTM chassis and PerfectStorm ONETM appliance, BreakingPoint now comes in a virtualized (software) option.

BREAKINGPOINT VE

BreakingPoint Virtual Edition (VE) is a scalable real-world application and threat simulator in an elastic deployment model that leverages virtualization and industry-standard hardware platforms.

PERFECTSTORM AND PERFECTSTORM ONE

The first hardware platform to support both IxLoad? and BreakingPoint product lines, Ixia's PerfectStorm family of load modules and appliances provide the right mix of power,

size, and portability required for a wide range of testing tasks and budgets:

PerfectStorm: massive-scale, stateful layers 4-7 application and security testing, delivering nearly a terabit of application traffic

PerfectStorm ONE: compact form factor to better support the enterprise, scaling from 4Gbps to 80Gbps of application traffic simulation

APPLICATION AND THREAT INTELLIGENCE (ATI)

The ATI program offers a simple way to create test flows of the malicious and user traffic your network must withstand. It provides updates every two weeks to ensure delivery of the industry's most up-to-date application and threat intelligence.

With a current ATI subscription, you have the most realistic simulation conditions possible with access to application protocols, security attacks (exploits, malware, DoS, and DDoS), the industry's most comprehensive Microsoft? Tuesday coverage, and ever-current "Evergreen" versions of the most popular Web and network apps.

APPLICATIONS

340

APP FLOWS

3,589

STRIKES

37,297

MALWARE 29, 438 DDOS 26

EXPLOITS+ 7,833

With updates every two weeks, ATI Subscription ensures you validate with the most up-to-date applications and strikes (data shown is as of August 1, 2016)

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BREAKINGPOINT 3.5

BREAKINGPOINT 8.0.1

BREAKINGPOINT 8.10

Application and Threat Intelligence (ATI)

BreakingPoint 3.5 firmware provides access to:

o 36,591 strikes (malware and exploits)

o 3,403 predefined application Super Flows

o 290 applications o First monthly botnet package

covering May 2015 containing 50 botnet strikes o 300 new malware strikes (live malware strikepacks) o Added 'All One-Way Strikes' StrikeList containing all strikes that only send traffic from client to server, for use in one-arm testing mode

New Applications

o Geneve o MongoDB o Bitcoin o BACnet/IP o Snapchat May15 o DNP3 o Airbnb o Alibaba

New Predefined Super Flows

o Geneve - TCP Data Transfer o Geneve - TCP Handshake o Geneve - TCP Termination o MongoDB Demo Super Flow o MongoDB Insert Document o MongoDB Query Document o MongoDB Shell

Connect/Disconnect o MongoDB Update Document o GTPv2-C Downlink Data

Notification o GTPv2-C Release Access

Bearers o Bitcoin Heartbeat o Bitcoin Synchronization o Bitcoin Transaction Information o BACnet/IP Read File o BACnet/IP Time

Synchronization o BACnet/IP Who-Has/I-Have

Object Query

Enables customers with an active ATI subscription to have timely access to:

o 13 new applications o 550 new strikes (223

new exploits and 165 botnets) o 162 addition live malware strikes o Monthly updates for "Evergreen Applications"

BreakingPoint 8.0.1 firmware release provides access to:

o 36,996 strikes (malware and exploits)

o 3,523 predefined application Super Flows

o 325 applications

New Applications

o o SaavnMusic Feb16 o StandardMedia Mar16 o NORM o STOMP o GSM MAP o Everquest o Minecraft 1.8.9 o S7comm) o JIRA o TDS - MS SQL Server

2012 o FileSharePro Mar16 o NTPv2

Enables customers with an active ATI subscription to have timely access to:

o 116 new strikes (41 new malwares and 75 new exploits)

o 9 new applications o Monthly updates for

"Evergreen Applications"

New Applications

o Spotify o Apple-iMessage o RTMP o MGCP o Mpeg-TS o Amazon Video o Pinterest o Apache-ZAB o Echonet

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BREAKINGPOINT 3.5

o BACnet/IP Who-Is/I-Am Device Discovery

o BACnet/IP Write File o Snapchat May 2015 o Snapchat May 2015 Send

Image o Snapchat May 2015 Send

Movie o DNP3 Link Status o DNP3 Read Class 0 Data o DNP3 Read Device Attributes o DNP3 Time Sync o DNP3 Unsolicited Response o Airbnb

BREAKINGPOINT 8.0.1

BREAKINGPOINT 8.10

BreakingPoint VE ? Platform Features

50% reduction in OVA size over 3.4 release (From approx. 8GB to 4GB)

40% improvement for key performance metrics over 3.4 release

Support for KVM hypervisor over CentOS 6.5 and 7.0 (added in 3.4.2)

Support for KVM hypervisor over Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (added in 3.4.2)

Licensing made easy, with no need for license check during upgrades on BPS VE

Added support for the following functionality:

o DHCPv4 o Routing Robot o RFC 2544 o Multicast o Lawful Intercept o Recreate

To better support various cloud/VM environment, we have enhanced BreakingPoint VE to support more flexible deployment models by:

o Decoupling of vController & vBlade into separate OVA or QCOW2 images

o Adding the ability to attach and detach vBlade to vController via web GUI or REST API

o Supporting configurable Static IP or DHCP based communication for vController and vBlade

In addition, we have reduced CPU and memory resource footprint of BreakingPoint VE deployment in lowperformance use cases and also increased performance of CPU-bound metrics (TPUT / CPS) by 50%

Added support for the following functionality:

o IPv4/IPv6 DNS o Bit Blaster o SCTP o DDoS Lab

BreakingPoint VE can now be deployed by OpenStack based orchestrations via Horizon GUI, command line APIs or via sample Heat Orchestration Templates (HOT). This release has been qualified on a vanilla OpenStack Liberty and Mitaka Multi-Node system including with Open vSwitch. It is also compatible with other orchestration systems that are built on top of vanilla OpenStack.

In the quest to improve performance we are introducing support for Intel DPDK via VMXNET3 driver on ESXi. This has resulted in 2x improvement in HTTP throughput when Throughput as Performance Emphasis mode is enabled.

Support for new 10G Subscription license as well as for a new 10G Perpetual license. This license serves as an indestructible 10G unit can't be broken up or shared in smaller increments. It benefits the customer in that it is a more cost effective way to buy units of 10G compared to lots of 1G.

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BREAKINGPOINT 3.5

BREAKINGPOINT 8.0.1

BREAKINGPOINT 8.10

LTE support has been enabled through addition of GTP v1/v2 for IPv4 in Network Neighborhood.

Hardware and Performance Optimization

Complete PerfectStorm 100G support (except for Resiliency Score lab)

GTP Performance for AppSim component has been improved by 100%.

o 30G throughput on FireStorm cards

o 80G throughput on PerfectStorm 10GE and PerfectStorm 40GE cards

o 160G throughput on a pair of PerfectStorm 100GE cards

XGS2 Chassis

Support for the new 2-slot chassis XGS2-HS with high performance controller (9400012). The 2-slot chassis can support any two PerfectStorm cards for applications and security testing with BreakingPoint.

ECC Cipher Performance Optimization

ECC (Elliptic Curve Cryptography) cipher performance has been optimized by 3x for CPS and 20Gbps of throughput per card, using hardware capabilities of the Cavium processors on our PerfectStorm platform

Use of SSL to secure Internet communication is increasing at a rapid pace. ECC is being pushed as alternative to RSA keys as ECC can offer the same level of cryptographic strength at much smaller key sizes - offering improved security with reduced computational resources

FlixOS Enhancements

Together with the FlixOS 2015.2.1001.99 and IxOS 8.0.1 EA Patch1 releases, PerfectStorm (XGS12/2-HS chassis) and PerfectStorm ONE customers can benefit from the following platform enhancements:

o Ability to change the Admin account default password

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BREAKINGPOINT 3.5

BREAKINGPOINT 8.0.1

o Option to disable direct RDP using the WebIP to IxOSVM

o New FTP-based FlixOS upgrade method in addition to the existing local USB Flash drive method

BREAKINGPOINT 8.10

User Interface

General

HTML 5 User Interface

o This release continues the transition to HTML 5 for user interface screens by migrating the Open Test screen to HTML5

Other user interface enhancements

o Improved granularity of percentage setting on Shared Component Settings screen

Report Enhancements

Combined multiple Test Component sections for aggregate stats into one single section

DDoS Lab

Dedicated user interface that unifies different infrastructure elements for a consistent and intuitive workflow to build DDoS test scenarios. The DDoS lab enables you to easily blend application and DDoS traffic and also gives quick access to ATI predefined attack patterns with geo-location support to define the realworld source and destination of the traffic.

HTML5 Transition

Continues transition to HTML 5 for user interface screens including:

o Real-time Statistics o Resiliency Score o Lawful Intercept Lab

Routing Robot UI Scalability

Generate stateless traffic with just a single Routing Robot component and network neighborhood per 100G & 40G interfaces. This dramatically reduces configuration time. A typical 100G configuration time now is 5 mins ? down 80% from 25 mins; similarly, the typical config time on 40G is reduced from 10 mins to 4 mins.

General

New buttons to quickly edit Application Profiles, Superflows and Strike lists within Test Components settings.

Component settings reordering for faster parameter referencing and a consistent look and feel across test components

Persistent menu buttons while navigating to Device Status page.

HTML 5 User Interface

o New screens converted to HTML5: Test Workspace and Multicast Lab

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