EANTC Product Test PRX-10G
ipoque participated with its carrier-grade PRX-10G Traffic Manager in a multi-vendor test of deep packet inspection bandwidth management solutions. The test confirms the high accuracy of the protocol detection and the industry-leading performance at data rates of up to 75 Gbit/s. It was conducted by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC) in January 2009.
ipoque shares the first place with another vendor of traffic management equipment. Out of 15 companies invited to the test, only three participated and published their results.
Test Results at a Glance
- Throughput of up to 75 Gbit/s
- 99% detection and regulation accuracy for all popular P2P protocols
- 100% compliance in P2P blocking test
- Encryption and VLAN tags have no effect on detection and regulation accuracy
- Linear scalability with additional packet processing blades
- Zero packet loss at test bed limit of 60 Gbit/s with 12 out of 14 packet processing blades
For more information about the test methodology and the results in detail please download the test report.
Detection of Asymmetrical Traffic
PRX-10G Traffic Manager excelled in all but one of the test cases: the detection of asymmetric traffic, where the overall detection rate dropped from close to 100% to 55%. This drop can be attributed mostly to encrypted protocols.
> PRX-10G applies different BitTorrent detection methods depending on which side the connection was established from. In the synthetic traffic conditions of the EANTC test bed, PRX-10G did not have access to the additional communication between clients. Some of the typical behavior patterns of a real client, which are used by the behavioral and statistical analysis for encrypted protocols, cannot always be correctly reproduced. The result is an incomplete detection.
> For the reason of avoiding false positive matches, ipoque’s detection of asymmetric traffic is quite conservative. Otherwise it would be possible, for instance, that SSL is mistaken for encrypted BitTorrent – a fatal error that could potentially block business critical applications.
PRX-10G Traffic Manager was tested by EANTC in January 2009. Our development team is using the test results to further improve the detection of asymmetric traffic even for encrypted protocols.