IPSec VPN Gateway Performance Validation

IxVPN provides Network Equipment Manufacturers, Service Providers, and organizations deploying IPsec VPNs an extremely scalable performance analysis solution for validating the performance of IPsec VPN gateways.

IxVPN utilizes Ixia's purpose-build Load Modules, including the Encryption Load Module (ELM) with dedicated security processors. Each load module port implements a full IKE and IPsec protocol stack and can emulate thousands of Secure Gateways and clients, creating thousands of IPsec tunnels. Using multiple ports, a single Ixia test system can scale to test the largest IPsec VPN gateways and networks.

IxVPN measures the tunnel setup rate and capacity of IPsec gateways. Using established tunnels, IxVPN measures the encryption and decryption performance of the IPsec gateway using the RFC 2544 methodology for benchmarking and soak tests for long term stability. IxChariot can be used to emulate a wide range of enterprise application traffic over IPsec tunnels. Many of the features of IxVPN are also included in IxLoad, which allows full, stateful L4-7 testing.

IxVPN is the only commercial test tool in the industry to provide comprehensive emulation for dynamic multipoint VPN (DMVPN), including performance testing with direct spoke-to-spoke tunnel initiation and EIGRP routing support. IxVPN supports detailed per-tunnel diagnostics and protocol level transaction logging, enabling and simplifying advanced system level troubleshooting.