Ixia BreakingPoint Pros and Cons

Pavel Kubik

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

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

WanArchSD455

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

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

reviewer402744

Senior System Engineer with 51-200 employees

The DDoS testing module is useful and quick to use.

Pavel Kubik

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

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

WanArchSD455

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

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.

reviewer402744

Senior System Engineer with 51-200 employees

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

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