Product Overview

Building upon the terabit-scale PerfectStorm platform, PerfectStorm ONE™ appliances offers enterprises, service providers, and technology vendors a revolutionary solution for generating stateful applications and malicious traffic, simulating millions of real-world end-user environments to test and validate infrastructure, a single device, or an entire system. 

PerfectStorm ONE’s unique combination of portability, performance, and cost-effectiveness allows any organization to perform enterprise-scale performance and security testing anywhere, at any time, using the exact application, attack, and load behavior needed to optimize and harden any IT infrastructure. 

PerfectStorm ONE facilitates network and security proof-of-concepts (POCs) and assessments, all in a compact device. This POC-in-a-box enables enterprises and service providers to select optimal devices and right-size data centers, as well as providing device vendors with a platform to fully showcase their product’s performance, resiliency, and throughput under real-world traffic loads.

Key Features

Large capacity and performance—small footprint and power needs

The world is becoming an always-connected, mobile environment, with massive volumes of traffic flowing through WANs, LANs, and data centers. The increase in network traffic scale, complexity, and types is causing a huge upswing in data center port counts and technology diversity.  

Equipped with powerful multi-core, multi-threaded network processors, PerfectStorm ONE uses Keysight’s next-generation architecture designed to satisfy high-throughput testing needs. Due to its compact form factor and reduced power requirements, the PerfectStorm ONE is a great option for customers that have a need for high performance, yet are constrained by the space and power availability in their lab. 

A single appliance allows control of up to 80Gbps of blended application traffic, 60 million concurrent connections, and new TCP connection rates of up to 2 million/sec. The hardware-based acceleration supports massive encryption levels with up to 40Gbps encrypted throughput per system. The system uses inline field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for enhanced accuracy pertaining to latency measurements with a resolution of 10ns and to deliver line-rate performance, including small 64-byte packets. Both IxLoad and BreakingPoint software solutions allow customers to increase the scalability by combining multiple appliances to the same test to drive operations, reporting, and results analysis from a single, unified user interface. 

Flexible operation modes 
The advanced aggregation capabilities of a PerfectStorm ONE appliance allow it to operate in two different modes, providing extra flexibility and performance: 

• Non-Aggregated, Mode: In this mode, each 10GE port uses of 1/8th of the network processor and memory resources available on the appliance, allowing delivery of application traffic at wire-speeds for each port, with up to 80Gbps. 
• 10GE Aggregated, Mode: This mode provides extra flexibility to allocate all available NP resources and memory available on an appliance while using a single 10GE interface to transmit/receive the traffic. Keysight test applications transparently configure the allocation of NP resources to achieve the maximum performance. 
• 1GE or 10GE mode: Using SFP+ interfaces, the PerfectStorm ONE 10GE appliance provides support to operate either in 1GE mode or 10GE mode. 

Hardware variants
The PerfectStorm ONE 10GE appliance consists of 8-port 1GE/10GE SFP+ interfaces, and is licensed as five variants, each one available in both standard (enables support for IxLoad) and Fusion (enables support for both IxLoad and BreakingPoint) variants:

• 4-port 1GE SFP+
• 8-port 1GE SFP+
• 2-port 1GE/10GE SFP+
• 4-port 1GE/10GE SFP+
• 8-port 1GE/10GE SFP+

A flexible licensing model allows customers to easily upgrade their appliance (from any model to any model), simply using an activation code. This flexibility allows customers to preserve their initial investment, optimize their budget, and spread the investment across multiple quarters or when additional performance is required. 

PerfectStorm ONE, Breaking Point performance

PerfectStorm ONE, IxLoad performance

PerfectStorm ONE is an essential solution for the following tasks:
•  Evaluating network devices to select the right equipment tailored to your unique network environment.
•  Designing data centers and virtualized infrastructures to meet peak performance and capacity requirements. 
•  Conducting cybersecurity investigations and simulations on the move, staying ahead of emerging threats.
•  Deploying global, compact network ranges to enhance critical communication infrastructure.
•  Training and certifying cybersecurity professionals to anticipate, detect, and prevent attacks.
•  Reducing test cycles to minimize costs and accelerate the development of networks and data center equipment.