[117148] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network load test equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tom Ammon)
Wed Sep 2 15:33:24 2009
Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:32:32 -0600
From: Tom Ammon <tom.ammon@utah.edu>
To: Greg Schwimer <gschwim@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <702ea15b0909021159o62ae278p200fe35c36fc06da@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
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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
>
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