Ixia BreakingPoint Pros and Cons

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

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

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

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

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.

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.