VIAVI C200 Appliance for CyberFlood and Avalanche – 1U Layer 4-7 Application Performance Test Platform
1U Layer 4-7 stateful traffic test appliance with 4 x QSFP28 ports for 10G to 100G, built-in CyberFlood controller and Avalanche support.
- Network interfaces
- 4 x QSFP28 supports a number of interface options
- 10G interfaces
- Up to 16 x 10G Fiber (SR4)
- 25G interfaces
- Up to 8 x 25G Fiber (SR4)
- 40G interfaces
- Up to 4 x 40G Fiber (SR4 or LR4)
Overview
The VIAVI C200 is a Layer 4-7 stateful traffic performance test appliance in a 1U form factor. It generates high-throughput application traffic, including traffic encrypted with high-strength ciphers, to assess the performance of content-aware networks, network devices, web applications and media services. Because it takes up little rack space, several units can be combined into test beds that generate multiple terabits of application-layer traffic.
The appliance has four QSFP28 interfaces that carry 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G and 100G Layer 4-7 application traffic. Users can set load variables and build tests with mixed traffic profiles that emulate real-world network scenarios. Cryptographic acceleration on the appliance supports large-scale encrypted traffic testing, including HTTPS/TLS with Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC).
Software
The C200 has a built-in CyberFlood controller, so tests can be run from the web-based CyberFlood interface without a separate hosting platform. CyberFlood generates realistic traffic from hundreds of thousands of application scenarios and includes the NetSecOPEN standard test methodologies, among them goal-seeking tests that find the maximum performance of a device under test.
The appliance also runs Avalanche software for directed one-ended and two-ended testing. Avalanche emulates detailed user behaviour, including several browser types, SSL versions, authentication, think times and HTTP aborts, and supports video testing over HTTP Adaptive Bitrate streaming. Tests can be automated through the CyberFlood RESTful API and the Avalanche Tcl API.
Key Features
- >100 Gbps line-rate stateful Layer 4-7 traffic generation
- High-density 16 x 10G interfaces, or up to 4 x 40G or 4 x 100G interfaces per C200
- Built-in CyberFlood controller with web-based interface
- Compatible with both CyberFlood and Avalanche testing solutions
- Preconfigured traffic mixes for high-throughput HTTPS/TLS encryption testing
- Custom traffic mixes from a database of hundreds of thousands of application scenarios
- Full support for HTTP/3
- Performance and capacity testing of firewalls, load balancers, SD-WAN, SASE, proxies, IDS/IPS and IPsec VPN gateways
- Application server performance testing for Web, CIFS, eMail, DHCP, FTP, DNS, RTSP/RTP, Multicast, RTMP and HTTP ABR
- Selectable performance operation modes to adjust CPU and memory allocation behind test interfaces
- Long-duration soak testing with the TestCloud application load
- IPSec and SSL VPN capacity testing, including tunnel setup, maximum tunnels and data rates over encrypted tunnels
- ZTNA testing of the Zero Trust Policy Enforcement Point (PEP) and per-user access policies
- Automatic goal seeking to find the maximum capabilities of a device
- Web-capture import and replay of recorded website sessions
- NetSecOPEN standard test methodologies built into CyberFlood
Specifications
| Network interfaces | 4 x QSFP28 supports a number of interface options |
|---|---|
| 10G interfaces | Up to 16 x 10G Fiber (SR4) |
| 25G interfaces | Up to 8 x 25G Fiber (SR4) |
| 40G interfaces | Up to 4 x 40G Fiber (SR4 or LR4) |
| 50G interfaces | Up to 4 x 50G Fiber (SR4) |
| 100G interfaces | Up to 4 x 100G Fiber (SR4 or LR4) |
| DAC cable support |
10G/40G and 100G
Transceivers sold separately
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| CPU | 32 high-powered cores for advanced traffic generation |
| Cryptographic processing | 256 Symmetric and 320 Asymmetric Cores |
| Number of test users |
Up to 16 users
On specific configurations
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| Stateful traffic generation | >100 Gbps line rate stateful Layer 4-7 traffic |
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| HTTPS/TLS testing | Support for legacy, TLS v1.2, and TLS v1.3 with selectable certificate and cipher suites, including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) |
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| Application scenarios | Hundreds of thousands of current and popular application and user scenarios |
| Advanced Mixed Traffic protocols |
HTTP, HTTP/2, HTTP/3, HTTPS, SMTP, POP3, IMAP4, FTP, DNS over TLS and HTTPS, and other protocols
Additional protocol support stated as coming soon
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| ZTNA testing | Emulation of authenticated, unauthenticated and unauthorized users via SAML and OIDC |
| VPN testing |
Site to site and remote access IPSec and SSL VPN
Expanding set of SSL VPN dialects
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| Automation | CyberFlood RESTful API and Avalanche Tcl API |
| Dimensions |
Height 1U, width 17.5 inches, depth 37.1 inches
Width without rack mounts
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| Weight |
46 lbs. (11kg)
As printed in the datasheet; the lb and kg figures do not match
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| Operating environment |
0° to 35°C
Supported ambient temperature
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| Non-operating environment | -20C to 70C |
| Relative humidity |
10% to 70%
Non-condensing
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| Power requirements | Dual outlet 100-240V, 50/60 Hz–1600W 15A |
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| Regulatory approvals | FCC Class A, EN 55022 Class A, EN 55024, EN 61000-3-3:2013, 61000-3-2:2014 or equivalent Product Safety requirement |
Specifications are taken from the manufacturer's documentation. See the datasheet for complete and current values.
Applications
- Network performance testing
- Web application testing
- High-performance HTTPS/TLS testing including Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC)
- SSL VPN/IPSec performance
- Application identification testing
- Advanced video application testing
- Mobile network firewall testing
- Zero-Trust scale and performance testing
- Replay of UDP/TCP traffic at scale
- Advanced security testing (optional)
Included
- Built-in CyberFlood controller
- Base software for HTTP bandwidth and connections tests
Options & Accessories
| Option | Description |
|---|---|
| CF-KIT-001-C200 | C200 with 4 x QSFP28 Interfaces CyberFlood Capacity License (add on unit) — QSFP28 transceivers are sold separately. |
| CF-KIT-002-C200 | C200 with 4 x QSFP28 Interfaces with CyberFlood Performance Licenses — QSFP28 transceivers are sold separately. |
| CF-SW-ADV-C100-C200 | Advanced Mixed Traffic for C100/C200 Appliance |