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Probably the world’s best

stateful traffic generation
and analysis platform
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OVERVIEW TYPES OF TESTS HARDWARE SOFTWARE KEY FEATURES

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OVERVIEW
Vulcan generates stateful Ethernet traffic to analyze how
firewalls, wireline & wireless networks, NICs, packet brokers, NAT
routers, bandwidth-shapers and so on perform in a wide range of
real-world scenarios.

Vulcan and you
WHO USES VULCAN?
• Enterprise IT & Security
• Government & Defense
• Academia
• Network Service Provider
• Network Equipment
Manufactures
OVERVIEW
WHAT DUTs CAN YOU TEST?
• Firewalls
• Wireline & Wireless Networks
• Deep Packet Inspection
• Packet Brokers
• NAT Routers
• Bandwidth shapers
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WHAT TYPES OF TESTING?
• Performance Testing
• Functional Testing
• QoS and Service Validation
• Security

PRICE/PERFORMANCE
• Low HW prices
• Free SW licenses & 1-year free
upgrades
• 3 years HW warranty
• Free lifetime tech support
OVERVIEW
Why choose Vulcan
EASE OF USE
• Responsive and easy to use
management software with an
extensive set of analytic and
reporting tools.
• Simple licensing system
UNIQUE PRODUCT FEATURES
• Highly scalable UDP/TCP layer
4 traffic generation.
• High performance TLS testing
suite.
• Import own application traffic
or use AppMix, an extensive
library of application/protocol
traffic.
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ROCK SOLID HW
• Robust product platform
• Compact VulcanCompact 1U
chassis covers 1, 2.5, 5, 10, 25,
40GE Speeds
• 1U and 2U rack mountable
hardware with a wide range of
port speeds offers low entry
and yet a scalable solution
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OVERVIEW

System Diagram
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TYPES OF TESTS
Vulcan is typically used for these core test solutions
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TYPES OF TESTS

Performance Testing

• Large scale generation and analysis of TCP and UDP flows

Measuring performance, capacity and responsiveness of network devices is • High performance CPS and CC stress testing
important to determine the overall user experience. • Analysis of TCP throughput, and Round-Trip Time latency
• High performance SSL 3.0 and TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 stress
Layer 1 throughput and application goodput measurements reveals bottlenecks testing
causing retransmissions and loss that can help optimizing network devices and • Support for different TLS cipher suites and certificate key
infrastructures. The responsiveness of a network device is characterized as sizes.
sessions per sec., as well as application transactions per sec. Capacity is • Scalable application traffic replay
characterized by how many simultaneous sessions/traffic flows it can handle.

W H I T E P A P E R S _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

T C P Te s t i n g Te s t i n g N G F W S Application Emulation
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TYPES OF TESTS

Functional Testing

Verifying correct implementation of network devices during development is • Gateway subnet to subnet routing
crucial, but often overseen is validation of correct configuration during and • Network Address Translation
after deployment. • Traffic filtering and shaping
• Lossless traffic capture for in-depth PCAP analysis of the network behavior
Use VulcanManager to define test cases targeting specific functionality. of the DUT/SUT.
With the built-in high-performance TCP, UDP and application library
VulcanAppMix, simple to very complex traffic scenarios spanning over
multiple test ports can be configured.

W H I T E P A P E R S _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Advanced Layer 4 replay Application Emulation

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TYPES OF TESTS

QoS and Service Validation

Vulcan makes it easy to test the capacity and performance of WANs (& SD-WANs) of • Gateway subnet to subnet routing
service providers and large enterprise networks – where the focus is more on • Network Address Translation
system-wide performance. • Traffic filtering and shaping
• Deep Packet Inspection
Relevant test parameters are: • Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems
• End-to-end throughput and latency in a managed IP network • Application traffic replay
• Optimal Maximum Segment Size (MSS).
• Traffic prioritization using Differentiated Services (DS) and other QoS mechanisms.
• Verify guaranteed bandwidths according to SLAs.

W H I T E P A P E R S _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

SD WAN T C P Te s t i n g
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TYPES OF TESTS

Security Testing

The increasingly demands for security in terms of both privacy, trust as well as • TLS/SSL
protecting systems from data leak and intrusion requires means for both • Deep Packet Inspection
performance and functional testing. • Intrusion Detection and Prevention System

With Vulcans TLS features and application replay, performance and behavior of
security devices can be verified. In focus for such test are both the ability to
detect security breach, but also to verify that the implemented security means
works as expected under high load.

W H I T E P A P E R S _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Transport Layer Security Te s t i n g N G F W S

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HARDWARE
Different chassis and speed licenses options to fit all needs.

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HARDWARE

VulcanBay

Specifications
19” rack size, 2U.
Vul-28PE-10G-CU: Throughput 120Gbps, up to 12 x 4-speed 10G/5G/2.5G/1G • 28 million Concurrent Connections (CC)
BASE-T interfaces. • 2.5 million Connections Per Second (CPS)
Vul-28PE-25G: Throughput 140Gbps, up to 12 x 3-speed 25G/10G/1G SFP28
• 3.0 million Transactions Per Second (TPS)
• 1.00.000 Concurrent TLS Sessions
interfaces.
Vul-28PE-40G: Throughput 140Gbps,2 x QSFP+ 40GBase. Up to 8 x 3-speed
25G/10G/1G SFP28 interfaces.
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HARDWARE

VulcanCompact

Specifications

19” Rack size, 1U: • 14 million Concurrent Connections (CC)

C-Vul-28PE-10G: Throughput 20Gbps, 2 x 2-speed 10GbE/1GbE SFP+ interfaces. • 2.5 million Connections Per Second (CPS)
C-Vul-28PE-10G CU: Throughput 20Gbps, 2 x 4-speed • 3.0 million Transactions Per Second (TPS)
10GbE/5.0GbE/2.5GbE/10GbE RJ45 interfaces
• 500.000 Concurrent TLS Sessions
C-Vul-28PE-25G: Throughput 40Gbps, 2 x 3-speed 25GbE/10Gbe/1GbE SFP28
and SFP+ interfaces
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HARDWARE

Speed Licenses

1G 10G 25G 40G

Vul-V1G-P Vul-V10G-P Vul-V25G-P Vul-V40G-P

Enables 1G Enables 1GE/ Enables 1GE/2.5GE/ Enables 1GE/2.5GE/
on a Test Port 2.5GE/5GE/10GE 5GE/10GE/25GE 5GE/10GE/25GE/
on a Test Port on a Test Port 40GE on a Test Port
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SOFTWARE
At Xena we work hard to make sure your work is easy. All our
software are designed to be intuitive and user-friendly.
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SOFTWARE

VulcanManager

The main software of the Vulcan line, it’s the one you’ll
use most of the time

A MS Windows application used to configure and generate

streams of Ethernet traffic between our stateful test
equipment and devices under test (DUTs) at port speeds
up to 40 Gbps and analyze the results.

Included for free with every Vulcan system. Latest version

can always be downloaded here
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SOFTWARE

Test Configuration

1. ’Tool bar’ with most common actions

and configuration ‘Traffic Light’.
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3
2

2. Explores to easily navigate through test

configuration and statistics.

3. Configuration and detail views with

graphical elements.
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SOFTWARE

Test Execution

1. Easily setup, control and monitor test 1

execution.
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2. Use Realtime Statistics Explorer to easily
navigate through the hierarchy of live
statistics counters and charts. 2

3. View extensive set of real-time statistics

and monitor test progression with real
time updated gauges and charts.
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SOFTWARE

Statistics and Reporting

1 1. Open previously stored test results

3 for comparison and report creation.

2. Use Statistics Explorer to easily

navigate through the hierarchy of
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statistics counters and charts.

3. Analyze counters and charts in

details.
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SOFTWARE

VulcanAppMix

Test your networks or devices with application

traffic.
VulcanAppMix is a free library of application
traffic and protocols, that makes it easy to set up
large-scale realistic traffic situations from various
applications, using pre-defined traffic and mix
templates.
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SOFTWARE

VulcanAppMix Applications

Amazon Finance orders (FIX4.0) Google Maps Remote Desktop

App Store App Finance orders (FIX4.1) Hotmail Web RSS Feed
Apple Map Finance orders (FIX4.2) Instagram SIP VoIP
AWS S3 Finance orders (FIX4.3) iOS Calendar Skype
Bing Search Finance orders (FIX4.4) IoT Publish Slack App
BitTorrent Finance orders (FIX5.0) IoT Publish over TLS Tumblr
Bloomberg Finance orders (FIXT1.1) iTunes App Twitter
Chrome Firefox LINE App Video stream 1080p over HTTP
Chrome Incognito Firefox Private LinkedIn Video stream 1080p over RTP
CNN Flickr Mobile Bank WeChat App
DNS Gmail Web MySQL Weibo
Dropbox Google App MySQL over TLS Wikipedia Search
eBay Google Calendar Outlook Web Mail Yahoo
Email application Google Hangouts App PayPal Yahoo Mail Web
Facebook Google Search QQ App YouTube
Facebook Messenger Google Drive Reddit
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SOFTWARE

VulcanAppMix Protocols

AFS IMAP RTP/RTCP

BitTorrent IMAPS RTSP
DNS LDAP SIP
Echo LLMNR SMB2
FIX4.0 MDNS SMTP
FIX4.1 MQTT SMTP over TLS
FIX4.2 MQTTS SRTP
FIX4.3 MS Exchange MAPI SSDP
FIX4.4 NBNS SSHv2
FIX5.0 NFSv2 TELNET (per-character)
FIXT1.1 NFSv3 TELNET (per-line)
FTP (active) POP3 TFTP Read Request
FTP (passive) POP3 over TLS TFTP Write Request
HTTP QUIC
HTTPS RDP
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SOFTWARE

VulcanAppMix Application Mixes

AFS IMAP RTP/RTCP

BitTorrent IMAPS RTSP
DNS LDAP SIP
Echo LLMNR SMB2
FIX4.0 MDNS SMTP
FIX4.1 MQTT SMTP over TLS
FIX4.2 MQTTS SRTP
FIX4.3 MS Exchange MAPI SSDP
FIX4.4 NBNS SSHv2
FIX5.0 NFSv2 TELNET (per-character)
FIXT1.1 NFSv3 TELNET (per-line)
FTP (active) POP3 TFTP Read Request
FTP (passive) POP3 over TLS TFTP Write Request
HTTP QUIC
HTTPS RDP
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SOFTWARE

VulcanAppMix Application Mixes

Enterprise Enterprise
internal perimeter Web

Real-World Application Mix

8000 7530

7000
6100
6000 5730 5700

5000
4350

Mbps
Finance Datacenter 4000

3000

2000

1000

0
Enterprise Internal Enterprise
Finance Datacenter Web
Segment Perimeter
Mbps 6100 5730 4350 5700 7530
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Key Features
These are Vulcan’s most powerful technical features.
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KEY FEATURES

Responsive and easy to

use management software

1. Test Configuration 2
2. Test Execution

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3. Statistics and Reporting
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KEY FEATURES

Highly scalable UDP/TCP layer 4 traffic

generation

TCP connections can be customized by modifying the

MAC/IP/TCP headers to create variations in the generated
packets.

Traffic rates are specified as a percentage of line rate,

frames per second or bit-rate, and traffic generation is
controlled by a load profile specifying the speed with
which connections are established and terminated.

The TCP payload can be automatically generated (random,

incrementing) or customized. Payloads can also be loaded
from files and different congestion control algorithms can
be used to test network behavior.
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KEY FEATURES

High performance TLS testing suite

VulcanManager supports SSL 3.0, TLS 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 performance testing e.g. handshakes per second, TLS
throughput, concurrent TLS connections, etc.

Users can specify different cipher suites and certificate key sizes.

With native TLS, this lets you test a device that acts in TLS proxy mode, where the device decrypts traffic on one
side and encrypts on the other.
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KEY FEATURES

Use own application traffic or AppMix to create

and scale realistic application traffic

• Importing PCAP for Replay scenario

• PCAP files are parsed and payload extracted for replay
• Replay on top of TCP stack
• Support one-to-many communication pattern in PCAP
• Capable of scaling from one user to millions
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KEY FEATURES

1U and 2U rack mounting hardware with a wide range of port

speeds offers low entry and yet a scalable solution

C-Vul-28PE-10G 2 x 2-speed 10GbE/1GbE Vul-28PE-10G-CU 12 x 4-speed 10G/5G/2.5G/1G

SFP+ interfaces. BASE-T interfaces.

C-Vul-28PE-10G CU 2 x 4-speed Vul-28PE-25G 12 x 3-speed 25G/10G/1G

10GbE/5.0GbE/2.5GbE/10GbE SFP28 interfaces.
RJ45 interfaces

C-Vul-28PE-25G 2 x 3-speed Vul-28PE-40G 2 x QSFP+ 40GBase.

25GbE/10Gbe/1GbE Up to 8 x 3-speed 25G/10G/1G
SFP28 and SFP+ interfaces SFP28 interfaces.
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KEY FEATURES

Vulcan – making test engineers lives easier

 Responsive and easy to use management software

 Highly scalable UDP/TCP layer 4 traffic generation

 High performance TLS testing suite

 Use your own application traffic or AppMix to create and scale

realistic application traffic

 1U and 2U rack mounting hardware with a wide range of port

speeds offers low entry and yet a scalable solution
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