I'm looking for equipment that can be used to load test network equipment such as switches, routers, firewall, and load balancers with pre-defined traffic patterns at differing rates. Ideally, this is only something I think I'll need 2-3x a year, so purchasing is not necessarily justifiable. I'd prefer to rent. What products have you used? Where did you get them from? I need to be able to run pre-defined traffic patterns at various rates, in excess of 10Gbps in most cases. Thanks! Greg
You can't go wrong with IXIA. http://www.ixiacom.com/how_to_buy/ixrent/ Regards, ------------------------------ Luan Nguyen Chesapeake NetCraftsmen, LLC. http://www.netcraftsmen.net ------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Greg Schwimer [mailto:gschwim@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, September 02, 2009 3:00 PM To: nanog Subject: Network load test equipment I'm looking for equipment that can be used to load test network equipment such as switches, routers, firewall, and load balancers with pre-defined traffic patterns at differing rates. Ideally, this is only something I think I'll need 2-3x a year, so purchasing is not necessarily justifiable. I'd prefer to rent. What products have you used? Where did you get them from? I need to be able to run pre-defined traffic patterns at various rates, in excess of 10Gbps in most cases. Thanks! Greg
We've used Spirent with a lot of success. They have a good lease program, too: www.spirent.com Tom Greg Schwimer wrote:
I'm looking for equipment that can be used to load test network equipment such as switches, routers, firewall, and load balancers with pre-defined traffic patterns at differing rates. Ideally, this is only something I think I'll need 2-3x a year, so purchasing is not necessarily justifiable. I'd prefer to rent. What products have you used? Where did you get them from?
I need to be able to run pre-defined traffic patterns at various rates, in excess of 10Gbps in most cases.
Thanks! Greg
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Ammon Network Engineer Office: 801.587.0976 Mobile: 801.674.9273 Center for High Performance Computing University of Utah http://www.chpc.utah.edu
I've used Spirent, IXIA and Anritsu test gear and I prefer the Anritsu boxes, even if they are a tad more complicated to configure. There are places that you can rent stuff like that (I've rented OTDRs in the past) but the details escape me. nb --- Nick Buraglio Network Engineer, CITES, University of Illinois / ICCN GPG key 0x2E5B44F4 Phone: 217.244.6428 buraglio@illinois.edu On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Tom Ammon wrote:
We've used Spirent with a lot of success. They have a good lease program, too:
www.spirent.com
Tom
Greg Schwimer wrote:
I'm looking for equipment that can be used to load test network equipment such as switches, routers, firewall, and load balancers with pre- defined traffic patterns at differing rates. Ideally, this is only something I think I'll need 2-3x a year, so purchasing is not necessarily justifiable. I'd prefer to rent. What products have you used? Where did you get them from?
I need to be able to run pre-defined traffic patterns at various rates, in excess of 10Gbps in most cases.
Thanks! Greg
-- -------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Ammon Network Engineer Office: 801.587.0976 Mobile: 801.674.9273
Center for High Performance Computing University of Utah http://www.chpc.utah.edu
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