"More than two dozen vendors were invited to participate in the test...only two vendors were willing to make their results public"
"...showed excellent performance and very good P2P detection"
Product Test PRX-5G
ipoque's PRX-5G Internet Traffic Manager excelled in an independent performance test of traffic management gear conducted by the European Advanced Networking Test Center (EANTC). 28 equipment vendors had been invited and 5 of these – including ipoque – decided to participate in the test. The results are published at internet evolution. Besides ipoque, only one other vendor agreed to the publication of the results.
The results prove that ipoque PRX-5G provides a near 100 percent detection accuracy at full gigabit network load making it the ideal choice bandwidth management solution for carriers and large ISPs. As noted in EANTC's summary report, “EANTC engineers configured a multi service, carrier grade test setup to challenge the product by a large number of parallel P2P sessions/protocols and legacy Internet services alike.” The tests were conducted using carrier-grade IP routers in conjunction with test equipment from Ixia and Shenick. In various scenarios found in today's real-world networks, the testers generated over 3 million parallel sessions at a data rate of 971 Mbit/s with a mix of P2P and legacy Internet applications. The Ixia and Shenick analysis systems were used to emulate 134,115 IP clients with individual TCP stacks plus 2,000 IP clients running latency-sensitive applications like IPTV and VoIP.
Important Note
The EANTC test was conducted in September 2007. The test conditions did not allow firmware updates during the test phase. Regular firmware and signature updates are part of ipoque's offering to its customers making sure that new and updated applications are reliably detected. The few detection issues mentioned in the test results were intermittent at the time of the test and had already been solved for ipoque's regular customers.