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Spirent's 76th Anniversary
Adapted from an email by Laura Owens, Vice President of Human Resources, to Spirent employees.
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5/17/2012 2:34:09 PM - Spirent
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Openflow Advances Networking and Test Requirements
Cloud computing and virtualization are expanding demands on the data center and are pushing the limits of scalability in network switching. The need for... read more
5/8/2012 2:54:12 PM - Jurrie Van Den Breekel
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Testing High Availability in Switch Fabrics
The advent of cloud computing in data centers has precipitated the transition from Ethernet switches forming a network to fabrics consisting of multiple... read more
4/25/2012 2:27:27 PM - Jurrie Van Den Breekel
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Low Latency, Multicast Scale & Microbursts- Arista Networks DCS-7508 Test
The cloud is looming. By 2014, Gartner expects 90 percent of personal consumer devices to have integrated cloud services and IDC predicts cloud computing... read more
4/4/2012 11:01:24 AM - Jurrie Van Den Breekel
Tags: Data Center
Why Automate?
Original article posted on the Network Test Automation Forum (NTAF) Blog.
My name is Todd Law, and I am the Vice-President of NTAF, as well... read more
3/12/2012 9:40:33 AM - Todd Law
Tags: Automation
Testing Data Center Fabrics for High Performance at Massive Scale
How do you test a data center switching fabric that scales exponentially beyond legacy platforms?
The implications go beyond the QA... read more
3/6/2012 1:55:56 PM - Jurrie Van Den Breekel
Tags: Data Center
Structuring a Real World Test for High Performance firewalls
Spirent and Crossbeam were recently part of a major collaboration to define and document a test methodology that could accurately assess the performance... read more
2/23/2012 8:57:02 AM - Ankur Chadda
Tags: Data Center
Creating an Industry-First Performance Test
By Gail Ferreira, Product Marketing Manager at Crossbeam, and Chris Chapman, Technical Marketing... read more
1/23/2012 12:05:11 PM - Chris Chapman
Tags: Avalanche
Top Five Test Issues of the Mobile Internet Revolution
I don't know if you've noticed, but there's a mobile internet revolution going on. The signs are all there: a rapid increase in the number of mobile... read more
12/9/2011 3:07:06 PM - Ross Cassan
Tags: IPv6
Avalanche 3.80 Features
The latest General Availability build of Avalanche (and Spirent TestCenter) has been released. I won't cover Spirent TestCenter, but for Avalanche, it's a... read more
11/9/2011 11:10:09 AM - Arnaud Castaner
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Experienced a Network Outage? I Feel Your Pain.
By now, all of us in networking have read about the four-day Blackberry outage or experienced our own personal Crackberry withdrawal. We also know it was... read more
10/21/2011 9:21:50 AM - Brett Wolmarans
Tags: Network Security
Forced to Choose Between Network Protection and Business Productivity?
Enterprise networks are being attacked on multiple fronts—hacking, data breaches, and denial of service attacks—sometimes simultaneously. Are your IT... read more
9/1/2011 8:13:46 PM - Ankur Chadda
Tags: Network Security, Cyber Security
Spirent at VMworld 2011, Las Vegas
You can't go to an IT conference these days without hearing the buzzwords du jour, "cloud computing" and "virtualization." Despite all the hype and... read more
8/25/2011 9:51:21 AM - Grace Cheung
Tags: Virtualization
Sophos Mid-Year Threat Report
Sophos, a UK-based security company, released theirread more
8/9/2011 9:09:02 AM - Arnaud Castaner
Tags: Cyber Security
The Video Tsunami
I attended Cisco Live yesterday morning in Simi Valley. I was able to watch live on my 63" Samsung Plasma the live broadcast from Las Vegas. It's better... read more
7/14/2011 10:22:13 PM - Alan Way
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Are your IPV6 Defenses ready for World IPV6 Day?
World IPv6 day is nearly upon us and many networks are not ready to repel borders (hackers). As the world becomes more aware of IPv6, more people will try... read more
6/9/2011 2:27:15 PM - Alan Way
Tags: IPv6
What do Lady Gaga and Top Defense Contractors have in common?
Well, as you might have guessed, they both need to do a lot more network testing! Here are two recent news stories that highlight this:read more
6/8/2011 1:54:29 PM - Brett Wolmarans
Tags: Network Security
Finding Avalanche Versions From Project Files
If you're a big Avalanche user, you've probably one day or... read more
4/30/2011 9:28:52 AM - Arnaud Castaner
Tags: Avalanche
Cyber Security: It's Not Just for Breakfast Anymore
Several weeks ago, I received two disturbing emails, one from my airline points program (and no it wasn't an announcement that I've made my 1K for the... read more
4/21/2011 2:04:15 PM - Brett Wolmarans
Tags: Cyber Security, Network Security
How should enterprises prepare for IPv6?
IPv6 is suddenly hot news. Running out of Internet addresses has a suitably Armageddon sound to boost news headlines, and we are all sufficiently hooked... read more
4/12/2011 8:58:22 AM - Alan Way
Tags: IPv4, IPv6
Using Avalanche to test MAC Address Capacity of Stateful Network Devices
Using a lot of MAC addresses in an Avalanche test is something we see on a regular basis. This can be used for Network Access Control, RADIUS, 802.1x, or... read more
4/4/2011 11:16:06 AM - Arnaud Castaner
Tags: Network
The end of the Internet?
Were the Mayans correct in predicting the end of the world in 2012? Or did they get some mixed signals on the state of the Internet and the availability... read more
3/21/2011 5:13:28 PM - Alan Way
Tags: IPv4
Preparing for a Virtual Demo
I just spent a week getting ready for this advanced testing seminar. It's been a whirlwind of activity, mostly involved in getting my lab ready for the... read more
3/16/2011 7:54:22 PM - Brett Wolmarans
Tags: Virtualization
PASS: A Test Methodology for Cloud Services
While the terminology surrounding cloud services may be a bit cloudy itself, the goal is clear — to create the dynamic data center and infinite... read more
2/22/2011 9:58:24 AM - Michael Lynge
Tags: Cloud Computing
Leveraging Your Automation Infrastructure
Maybe it's possible to maintain a competitive feature set and release schedule without test automation, but I don't see how. These days, test case... read more
2/22/2011 8:24:19 AM - Andrew Armstrong
Tags: Automation
The Death of Best-Effort QoS Testing
Well, it's official. Testing exclusively with best-effort traffic is dead. Today, even the simplest network implements Quality of Service (QoS). Testing... read more
2/22/2011 8:09:47 AM - Chris Chapman
Tags: QoS
The 21st Century Workplace
Institutional resistance to working remotely (aka telecommuting, telework) continues to crumble. While the H1N1 virus may force the issue, it will merely... read more
2/21/2011 1:42:57 PM - Ankur Chadda
Tags: Workplace
Is Your Network Ready for Carrier Ethernet Interconnects
If you don't already know, network convergence is central to what's driving complexity in the communication networks of today. And despite technology,... read more
2/18/2011 9:09:09 AM - Sailaja Tennati
Tags: Ethernet
Testing Video over Carrier LDP/RSVP-TE MPLS
One of the great features of Spirent TestCenter is its ability to directly test services over structured Ethernet. This is critical to carriers because... read more
2/8/2011 9:03:09 AM - Chris Chapman
Tags: Ethernet, Router
