The Right Computing Platform for Real-World Testing

networks and data infrastructures. Instead of just forwarding packets, these intelligent devices implement various policies, like security and quality of service provisioning, that are based on packet content. Consequently, test labs evaluating today’s infrastructures need to simulate real-world traffic that emulates actual user behavior with respect to overall throughput and transaction types. For example, an ecommerce infrastructure should be tested with traffic profiles representing typical back-and-forth, encrypted and un-encrypted transactions between clients and servers. This is achievable with test solutions based on Intel® multi-core processors that have the flexibility and performance needed to support dynamic, two-way traffic and thoroughly test computing infrastructure. Test platforms lacking the requisite flexibility are limited to sending only one-way traffic to devices under test.