Ixia BreakingPoint pros and cons

Vendor: Keysight Technologies

4.2 out of 5

8 reviews
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it_user719259

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 4, 2019

There is a virtual version of the product which is scaled to 100s of virtual testing blades.

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WanArchSD455

SDWAN Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 3, 2019

We use Ixia BreakingPoint for Layer 7 traffic generation. That's what we like.

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Sai Prasad

Staff QA Engineer at Virsec

Mar 23, 2023

It is a scalable solution.

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reviewer402744

Senior System Engineer with 51-200 employees

Aug 2, 2018

The DDoS testing module is useful and quick to use.

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reviewer1005864

Director at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 13, 2019

The solution has many protocols and options, making it very flexible.

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Prakarn Wungpichayssuk

ManBusiness Directorager at CSG SOLUTION

May 8, 2023

The most valuable feature of Ixia BreakingPoint is the ransomware and malware database for simulated attacks.

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Ruslan Melnyk

Business Unit Manager at BAKOTECH

Mar 22, 2023

I like that we can test cloud applications.

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Ixia BreakingPoint Cons review quotes

it_user719259

Systems Engineer at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

Jul 4, 2019

The production traffic simulations are not realistic enough for some types of DDoS attacks.

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WanArchSD455

SDWAN Architect at a aerospace/defense firm with 10,001+ employees

Jun 3, 2019

The quality of the traffic generation could be improved with Ixia BreakingPoint, i.e. to get closer to being accurate in what a real user will do.

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Sai Prasad

Staff QA Engineer at Virsec

Mar 23, 2023

They should improve UI mode packages for the users.

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reviewer402744

Senior System Engineer with 51-200 employees

Aug 2, 2018

I would appreciate some preconfigured network neighborhoods, which are predefined settings for testing networks.

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reviewer1005864

Director at a aerospace/defense firm with 1,001-5,000 employees

Nov 13, 2019

The solution originally was hard to configure; I'm not sure if they've updated this to make it simpler, but if not, it's something that could be streamlined.

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Prakarn Wungpichayssuk

ManBusiness Directorager at CSG SOLUTION

May 8, 2023

The integration could improve in Ixia BreakingPoint.

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Ruslan Melnyk

Business Unit Manager at BAKOTECH

Mar 22, 2023

The price could be better.

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