Spirent Rolls Out Enhanced Avalanche Test Platform

Spirent Communications announced a new version of its Avalanche platform featuring improved enterprise network testing tools. Avalanche 6.1 provides greater flexibility to develop custom load profile descriptions that match actual traffic. It also offers expanded security tests — adding Evasive UDP, Land Attack, Ping of Death, Tear Drop and Unreachable Host to the 10 existing attacks available with Avalanche Enterprise Edition. In addition to the new attacks, an extensible API is now provided that can be used to script custom DDoS attacks. In addition, Avalanche can now generate traffic using random IP and MAC addresses which increases the realism of the traffic it generates. http://www.spirentcom.com/