BreakingPoint Announces Competitive Trade Up Program for Network Equipment Testing Products

Discounts, Training and Testing Methodologies Help Companies Break Free of Rigid Legacy Vendors and Achieve Breakthrough Performance, Accelerated Development and Reduced Time-to-Test

News Facts:

 --  BreakingPoint, headquartered in Austin, TX, provides a new generation
     of testing solutions that validate network equipment performance and
     functionality using the most realistic conditions to accelerate
     development, speed time-to-market and reduce R&D, QA and operations
     costs.
 --  BreakingPoint today launched a competitive upgrade offer designed to
     help Network Equipment Manufacturers (NEMs) and Service Providers move
     from rigid legacy testing tools to the BreakingPoint Elite.
 --  BreakingPoint Elite is the industry's fastest, most accurate,
     responsive and easy-to-use application, performance and security
     testing product.
 --  BreakingPoint Elite provides unprecedented realism, session
     performance, throughput and ease-of-use features. BreakingPoint Elite
     is the ONLY network equipment testing product to generate:
       -  15 million concurrent TCP sessions and 1.5 million TCP sessions
          per second
       -  20 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic in a 4 rack unit
          chassis
       -  80 Gigabits per second Layer 2-3 traffic in a 4 rack unit chassis
 --  BreakingPoint Breakthrough Performance program runs through
     December 31, 2008 and offers up to a 50% discount on BreakingPoint
     Elite when trading in legacy test equipment from Agilent®, Ixia®
     or Spirent®.

Links for more information:

Trade Up Program Information: www.breakingpointsystems.com/tradeup
BreakingPoint Elite Information: www.breakingpointsystems.com/products
BreakingPoint Labs Blog: www.breakingpointlabs.com
Follow BreakingPoint on Twitter: www.twitter.com/breakingpoint

Additionally, BreakingPoint Elite stuns the competition with the following features:

3X more applications

--  60+ application protocols
--  API for proprietary applications
    

Broadest security coverage

--  3600+ live security attacks
--  80+ evasion techniques
--  Complete Microsoft® Tuesday coverage
--  Ongoing surveillance and weekly updates
    

200X faster

--  20 Gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic
--  No performance degradation with multiple protocols
    

80X more concurrent TCP sessions

--  15 million concurrent TCP sessions
--  1.5 million TCP sessions per second
    

50% reduction in time-to-test

--  Comprehensive Layer 2-7 testing in one product
--  Extensive test automation
--  Platform independent intuitive management interface
--  Stateful recreate and replay of captured traffic
--  Integrated reporting
    

Highly scalable

--  Unify multiple systems with a single configuration and interface
--  200 Gigabits per second Layer 4-7 traffic
--  800 Gigabits per second Layer 2-3 traffic
    

Lowest total cost of ownership

--  Smallest physical footprint/carbon footprint
--  Highest 10 GigE port density for stateful Layer 4-7 traffic
--  Mix 10 GigE and 1 GigE copper/fiber interfaces
--  Largest capture buffer per port (2 GB vs. 64 MB)
--  Lowest cost per TCP session
--  Lowest cost per Gigabit of Layer 4-7 traffic
    

About BreakingPoint

BreakingPoint provides the industry's fastest, most accurate, responsive and easy-to-use testing solutions, helping network equipment manufacturers, service providers, and enterprises accelerate development of high performance content-aware networks, network devices, and other equipment, while reducing R&D, QA and operating costs. The company is headquartered in Austin, Texas with offices and customers in Canada, China, Finland, France, Germany, India, Israel, Italy, United Kingdom, United States and more. For more information, visit www.breakingpointsystems.com.