Spirent Communication's Holistic Testing Approach Prepares Enterprises for Dynamic,...

Spirent Communication's Holistic Testing Approach Prepares Enterprises for
Dynamic, Terabit-Capacity Data Centers

Spirent Data Center Testing Solutions Deliver the Industry's Only Unified
Layer 2-7 Test Architecture for High Performance Virtualized, Eco-Friendly
Networks

LAS VEGAS, May 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Spirent Communications plc (LSE: SPT), a
leader in networks, services and devices testing, announces the industry's
first holistic approach to validating the performance of tomorrow's dynamic
data centers. This approach offers a unified Layer 2-7 test architecture
specifically designed to test the end-to-end performance of 10/40/100 Gigabit
Ethernet fabrics, Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) convergence, virtualized
server networking, cloud computing-based applications and security. Spirent
was recently recognized by Frost & Sullivan as the leader in enterprise
network test and measurement solutions for research and evaluation labs.

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Tomorrow's data centers are being designed around virtualized services and
converged networks. These designs set new standards for network performance
and scale, service availability, system security, application Quality of
Experience (QoE) and power efficiency, which are only validated by a holistic
test architecture. Trusted by the world's leading network equipment
manufactures, Spirent's data center test architecture includes:
-- Spirent TestCenter(TM): An award winning modular layer 2-7 performance
test platform, Spirent TestCenter validates Quality of Service (QoS)
and
QoE of converged data center networks including FCoE with Converged
Enhanced Ethernet (CEE) and Data Center Ethernet (DCE)
-- Spirent TestCenter(TM) Virtual: A Best of Interop Finalist for 2009,
Spirent TestCenter Virtual extends the capabilities of Spirent
TestCenter to measure the true performance impact of virtualized
servers, switches and appliances in tomorrow's data center networks
-- Spirent TestCenter Hypermetrics(TM): The award winning Spirent
TestCenter Hypermetrics(TM), expands Spirent TestCenter performance to
emulate the most realistic data center infrastructures with a
multi-core, multi-dimensional HSE (10/40/100GbE) module that enables
stateful, line-rate, layer 2-7 multi-play scalability at terabit
capacities
-- Spirent TestCenter(TM) Avalanche: The market leading Spirent
TestCenter
Avalanche is designed to validate network security, server load
balancing and WAN acceleration while loading the data center
application
services including the Storage Sub System with NFS and CIFS
-- Spirent TestCenter GreenPut(TM): An innovative approach, Spirent
TestCenter GreenPut benchmarks the energy efficiency of deployed or
soon-to-be deployed data center systems by measuring the throughput
per
watt of network elements, and calculating the power consumed under
various traffic and session load
-- Spirent TestCenter NoCode(TM): A fourth-generation visual programming
environment, Spirent TestCenter NoCode, enables every test engineer to
develop meaningful and repeatable test cases that more easily and more
quickly finds defects with fewer test runs

-- Spirent TestCenter(TM) OnDEMAND: By leveraging a team of testing
experts
working both on and off-site, Spirent TestCenter OnDEMAND validates
all
aspects of a data center to detect and mitigate performance, security,
and scalability problems before the launch of new or advanced
infrastructure and applications

"Market conditions are accelerating innovations around data center
performance, scalability, security, and power efficiencies," said Bill Burns,
CEO at Spirent Communications. "Spirent's holistic, unified test architecture
enables today's innovators to achieve their vision of building and deploying
tomorrow's dynamic data centers."

Spirent's holistic data center testing architecture will be on display at
Interop 2009 at Spirent Booth #1051. The solutions will also be showcased at
the Spirent Proof of Concept (SPoC) Labs and Collaboration Centers in Beijing,
London and Sunnyvale. For more information visit www.spirent.com or follow
Spirent on Twitter at www.twitter.com/spirentcomm

About Spirent Communications plc
Spirent Communications (www.spirentcom.com) is a global provider of integrated
performance analysis and service assurance systems that enable the development
and deployment of next-generation networking technology such as Internet
telephony, broadband services, 3G wireless, global navigation satellite
systems, and network security equipment. Spirent Communications' solutions are
used by more than 1,700 customers in 30 countries, including the world's
largest equipment manufacturers, service providers, enterprises and
governments. Based in Sunnyvale, CA, Spirent Communications has 1,500
employees worldwide. For more information visit
http://www.spirent.com/news/about_spirent.cfm

SOURCE Spirent Communications

Sailaja Tennati of Spirent Communications, +1-770-432-3225,
sailaja.tennati@spirent.com