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Symantec Corporation #
210147
TCO of DLP: Symantec DLP v10.5 vs.
McAfee Host and Network DLP v9.0
Release date: 01 September 2010
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Symantec commissioned Tolly to perform a head-to-head evaluation of Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10.5 vs. McAfee Data Loss Prevention 9.0. Both solutions were installed by technicians certified by the respective company.
The goal of this comparison was to examine key elements of both solutions and understand the impact on the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of the solutions.
The test focused on key areas that can impact TCO: 1) incident remediation workflow
2) detection accuracy 3) network monitoring performance 4) solution deployment.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210126
Avaya IP Office Release 6: Small Office Deployment & TCO vs. ShoreTel
Release date: 20 August 2010
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Avaya commissioned Tolly to evaluate the Avaya IP Office Release 6 solution and the ShoreTel IP Phone system solution with respect to deployment in small office (sub-20 user) environments.
Testers documented the installation process, components required and energy consumption of IP phones and other key components. This information was used to build theoretical cost models for deployments of 20, 50 and 100 users in a single location.
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Alcatel-Lucent #
210119
Alcatel-Lucent OminSwitch LAN Switches - Application Continuity
Release date: 09 August 2010
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Alcatel-Lucent commissioned Tolly to evaluate the features of the OmniSwitch LAN switch family that provide application continuity. Testers evaluated a number of technologies that facilitate recovery at layer 2 and layer 3 at the core and the edge of local area networks.
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Alcatel-Lucent #
210119DE
Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch - Anwendungskontinuität durch zuverlässige Netzwerkinfrastruktur
Release date: 07 August 2010
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Die LAN-Switches der Serie OmniSwitch unterstützt Funktionen, die hohe Zuverlässigkeit und leichte Wartbarkeit über standardbasierte Protokolle für ein hochverfügbares LAN ermöglichen. Die OmniSwitch-Switches unterstützen das ITU-T G.8032/Y.1344 Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) Protokoll für ausfallsichere Netzwerkverbindungen im Backbone sowie das IEEE 802.3ad-basierte Dual Home Link (DHL) Protokoll für ausfallsichere Edge- Switch-Verbindungen. Die Kombination aus ERP- und DHL-Protokollen führte bei unerwarteten Netzwerkverbindungsausfällen bzw. bei Netzwerkwartungsaktivitäten im Vergleich zur herkömmlichen Implementierung über Spanning Tree-Protokolle (STP) zu deutlich kürzeren Umstellungszeiten in der Netzwerktopologie.
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Alcatel-Lucent #
210119ES
Conmutadores LAN apilables y basados en chasis Alcatel-Lucent OmniSwitch
Release date: 07 August 2010
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Los conmutadores LAN OmniSwitch utilizan funciones de fiabilidad y operatividad, así como protocolos basados en estándares con el fin de garantizar una alta disponibilidad de la LAN. Los conmutadores OmniSwitch son compatibles con el protocolo ITU-T G.8032/Y.1344 Ethernet Ring Protection (ERP) con el fin de proporcionar resistencia a las conexiones de red troncal, así como con el protocolo Dual Home Link (DHL) basado en IEEE 802.3ad para proporcionar resistencia a las conexiones de conmutador de borde. La combinación de los protocolos ERP y DHL permitió un tiempo de recuperación de la topología considerablemente más rápido en los casos en que se produjeron fallos imprevistos en los enlaces de red o durante las operaciones de mantenimiento de la red, en comparación con una implantación convencional que utiliza el estándar Spanning Tree Protocol (STP).
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Force10 Networks, Inc. #
210136
Force10 ExaScale E-Series E1200i Core Switch/RouterResiliency, QoS and Scalability Evaluation
Release date: 27 July 2010
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Force10 Networks commissioned Tolly to evaluate the Resilincy, Advanced Quality-of-Service and Scalability of the Force10 ExaScale E-Series E1200i Core Switch/Router.
Tolly engineers demonstrated failover/recovery scenarios involving critical switch components such as route processing modules and switch fabric modules. Engineers also verified that the switch/router could withstand a Denial-of-Service attack of 50 Gbps of traffic and that the switch could scale to handle more than 1,000 peers and 6.5 million paths.
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Force10 Networks, Inc. #
210135
Force10 ExaScale E-Series E1200i Core Switch/Router: Performance Evaluation
Release date: 27 July 2010
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Force10 Networks commissioned Tolly to evaluate the Gigabit Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet performance of the Force10 ExaScale E-Series E1200i Core Switch/Router.
Test was performed at maximum configurations for both Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet with tests conducted using 1,260 Gigabit Ethernet ports and then with the same chassis outfitted with its maximum configuration of 140 10 Gigabit Ethernet ports.
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LG-Ericsson #
210134
LG-Ericsson iPECS ES-3024G/GP Gigabit Managed Switches: Competitive Comparison
Release date: 21 July 2010
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LG-Ericsson commissioned Tolly to benchmark the LG-Ericsson iPECS ES-3024G and ES-3024GP Gigabit Ethernet managed switches to measure their performance, power consumption, PoE capabilities and general feature set. The LG-Ericsson switches were compared with a pair of Cisco switches as well as a pair of HP ProCurve switches. Testing was conducted in April 2010.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210122
HP StorageWorks X3820: High-Availability Storage for SMB Evaluation
Release date: 10 June 2010
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Today’s small and medium-size businesses (SMBs) have ever-growing needs with respect
to storage. Not only do SMBs need to be able to scale to many terabytes of storage, they
require a level of high-availability typically associated with large-scale, enterprise
deployments. Furthermore, given IT staffing constraints, they need such storage
solutions to be able to be installed quickly by existing IT staff.
HP commissioned Tolly to evaluate the ease-of-installation, high-availability, performance and system support of the HP StorageWorks X3820 2-node Netwok Storage System in the context of SMB deployment.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210105
Avaya CS 1000 VoIP Solution: Power Consumption versus Cisco UCM VoIP Solution
Release date: 09 June 2010
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Avaya commissioned Tolly to evaluate the power consumption of their CS 1000 VoIP solution versus the Cisco UCM VoIP solution.
Tolly engineers monitored and recorded the power draw of all critical infrastructure components of the Solutions Under Test (SUTs) in an idle state. These observations were then extrapolated to obtain the operational costs, power savings, and the resultant CO2 emission savings for a 1,000-user deployment.
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LG-Nortel #
210125
LG-Nortel iPECS ES-3024G/GP Gigabit Managed Switches: Competitive Comparison
Release date: 20 May 2010
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LG-Nortel commissioned Tolly to benchmark the LG-Nortel iPECS ES-3024G and ES-3024GP Gigabit Ethernet managed switches to measure their performance, power consumption, PoE capabilities and general feature set. The LG-Nortel switches were compared with a pair of Cisco switches as well as a pair of HP ProCurve switches. Testing was conducted in April 2010.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210108
HP BladeSystem c7000 vs. Cisco UCS - Airflow & Cooling Comparison
Release date: 04 May 2010
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HP commissioned Tolly to evaluate the airflow requirements of the HP BladeSystem and compare those requirements to the Cisco UCS system.
Tests show that Cisco's UCS blade system demands significantly greater airflow than a comparable HP BladeSystem. Cisco UCS systems require more than 2.5X as much airflow for cooling purposes when compared with HP BladeSystem.
Testing was conducted in March 2010.
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Xirrus, Inc. #
210121
Xirrus XN8 Performance and Feature Evaluation
Release date: 27 April 2010
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Xirrus, Inc. commissioned Tolly to validate the performance and feature support of its XN8 Wi-Fi Array, and compare it to a traditional Wi-Fi solution using centralized architecture of a Wi-Fi controller connected to Thin Wi-Fi Access Points.
Performance tests focused on measuring user density, Wi-Fi range and roaming time. Functional tests verified support for general radio features, SSID settings, network settings, security features like encryption and authentication, load balancing, etc.
Tests were based on the Tolly Common Test Plan #1060: Wi-Fi
Infrastructure Devices. (For more information see
http://CommonTestPlan.org.)
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Xirrus, Inc. #
210121A
Video - Xirrus XN8 Wi-Fi Array Testing
Release date: 26 April 2010
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Xirrus, Inc. commissioned Tolly to validate the performance and feature support of its XN8 Wi-Fi Array, and compare it to a traditional Wi-Fi solution using centralized architecture of a Wi-Fi controller connected to Thin Wi-Fi Access Points.
The Tolly Group discusses the testing and test results in this brief video.
Click here to be redirected to the Xirrus video page.
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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. #
210106
Brocade FastIron Edge X624 and BigIron RX-4 Interoperability Evaluation
Release date: 14 April 2010
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Brocade commissioned Tolly to evaluate two of its enterprise-class LAN switches for interoperability with other switch brands.
Tolly engineers subjected the FastIron Edge X624 and BigIron RX-4 switches to more than a dozen tests with switches from 3Com, Cisco Systems, Enterasys Networks, Force10 Networks, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corporation, and NEC Corporation. Engineers tested 20 switches from eight vendors to determine the various levels of interoperability offered.
Brocade switches demonstrated a broad level of interoperability with 18 other switches from seven other leading vendors for advanced LAN and routing functions at Layer 2 and Layer 3.
This testing was done in accordance with Tolly Common Test Plan #1088 - LAN Switch Interoperability.
That document is available for license and you can find more information about it on the
Tolly Common Test Plan website.
Download the free test report.
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Radware Ltd. #
210104
Radware AppDirector x08 and x16 Application Switches vs F5 BIG-IP 1600 and 3600
Release date: 12 April 2010
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Radware commissioned Tolly to validate the performance of the AppDirector 4016 and the newly-introduced 4008 vs F5’s newly-introduced BIG-IP 1600 and 3600 running F5’s newest version, 10.0. This comes two years after the release of the Tolly report showing AppDirector x16’s superior performance over the F5 BIG-IP 1500, 6400 and 6800 platforms.
The project measured the throughput, transaction rates and response times of the systems while processing layer 7 transactions with and without SSL termination. Tests also measured system performance while the systems were subject to a number of denial-of-service attacks.
The test methodology used for this report relies upon test procedures, metrics and documentation practices as defined by Tolly Common Test Plan #1077 Application Switch Performance.
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Intel Corporation #
210100
Intel® Atom™ Processor Z530 for Embedded Computing: Performance Evaluation
Release date: 01 April 2010
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Intel Corporation commissioned Tolly to evaluate the performance and memory bandwidth of an Intel Atom Z530 processor based embedded platform aimed at the applications like industrial automation, medical, digital security and surveillance, infotainment, etc.
Tolly engineers built a representative embedded computing platform using the 1.6 GHz Intel Atom processor with 533 MHz FSB, 1 GB DDR2 667 MHz RAM and running Ubuntu 8.04 Desktop Edition for the operating system. Tests benchmarked the general CPU performance of the Intel Atom Z530 based platform using the industry standard SPEC CPU2000 benchmark, and the sustained computer memory bandwidth using the STREAM benchmark.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210131
HP A8800 Series Routers
Feature Validation and Performance Evaluatio
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Tolly engineers selected two models A8805 and A8812
from the HP A8800 series router family to verify the
performance and key features that make the router family
suited to be deployed as core routers for enterprise or
carrier networks. A8800 demonstrated high performance
and abundant features in routing, multicasting, NAT/PAT,
MPLS, firewall, security, Quality of Service (QoS) and
reliability.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210128
HP A12500 Data Center Core Switches
Feature Validation, Performance Evaluation and Interoperability
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Tolly engineers selected model
A12508 from the HP A12500 data
center core routing switches to verify
its performance and feature support.
In addition, tests also focused on
interoperability verification with
several popular Cisco Systems, Inc.
switches and routers, and key
features that make the A12500
suitable for use as core switches in
enterprise, campus, data center, and
Metropolitan Area Networks
(MANs).
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210129
HP A9500 Series Modular Core Switches
Feature, Performance and Interoperability Validation
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Tolly engineers selected the A9512 model from the A9500
series of high-end modular core routing switches to verify
the performance, interoperability with popular Cisco
products and key features that make this switch series
ideally suited for use as core switches in enterprise,
campus, data center and Metropolitan Area Networks
(MANs).
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210130
HP A5800/A5820 Series Flex Chassis 10GbE Switches
Feature Validation and Performance Evaluation
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Tolly engineers selected several models from HP’s A5800
and A5820 series of 10Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) flex chassis
switches to verify the performance and key features that
make them optimally suited for deployment as access or
aggregation switches in data center networks, carrier
networks, or enterprise networks where there is a need to
aggregate voice, data and video applications.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210133
HP A-MSR20-1x, 30-1x, 50-60 Series Routers Performance and Features Evaluation
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Tolly was asked to verify features and performance
for three families of the multi-service routers (HP A-
MSR20-1x, HP A-MSR30-1x, and HP A-MSR50-60).
HP’s multi-service routers address the requirements
of small to large-sized networks, serving as edge
and core routers or even convergence access
devices.
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210132
HP A6600 Series
Feature and Performance Evaluation of High-End Open Multicore Router Family
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Tolly was asked to verify the performance of the HP A6600
series high end open multicore routers, a device designed to
meet current aggregation and gateway requirements for
enterprise and carrier networks, while also allowing for
future network expansion. Tolly Group verified more than 50
features for Layer 2/3 functions, network protocols, security,
Quality of Service, system management, multicast, and
reliability of services.
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Radware Ltd. #
210104JP
Radware AppDirector x08 and x16 Application Switches vs F5 BIG-IP 1600 and 3600
Release date: 17 March 2010
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Radware commissioned Tolly to validate the performance of the AppDirector 4016 and the newly-introduced 4008 vs F5’s newly-introduced BIG-IP 1600 and 3600 running F5’s newest version, 10.0. This comes two years after the release of the Tolly report showing AppDirector x16’s superior performance over the F5 BIG-IP 1500, 6400 and 6800 platforms.
The project measured the throughput, transaction rates and response times of the systems while processing layer 7 transactions with and without SSL termination. Tests also measured system performance while the systems were subject to a number of denial-of-service attacks.
The test methodology used for this report relies upon test procedures, metrics and documentation practices as defined by Tolly Common Test Plan #1077 Application Switch Performance.
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Trend Micro, Inc #
210107
Trend Micro DLP5 vs. McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention 3: Endpoint DLP Evaluation
Release date: 12 March 2010
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Trend Micro, Inc. commissioned Tolly to conduct a comparative analysis of Trend Micro Data Loss Prevention (DLP) for Endpoint versus McAfee Host Data Loss Prevention.
Engineers deployed prototype environments for both solutions focused on providing protection for Windows XP endpoints. Tests explored data identification, channel coverage, fragmentation/obfuscation and ease-of-use.
Testing was based on the Tolly Common Test Plan #1130, Data Loss Prevention. (See http://CommonTestPlan.org for additional information on the test plan.)
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Hewlett-Packard Co. #
210109
HP BladeSystem c7000 vs. Cisco UCS - Network Bandwidth Scalability Comparison
Release date: 25 February 2010
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Today’s blade server systems provide customers with platforms that can host many physical servers and potentially a hundred or more virtual servers. It is essential that these systems provide high-bandwidth connectivity in an any-to-any fashion across physical and virtual servers in order for customers to reap the benefits of blade-based virtualization and not encounter bandwidth-related application performance issues, particularly for I/O intensive applications such as ERP, CRM or database servers.
HP commissioned Tolly to benchmark the intra-chassis network throughput of its BladeSystem c7000 and compare that to a Cisco UCS 5100 system outfitted with comparable hardware.
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Echelon Corporation #
210102
Echelon Networked Energy Services (NES) System Scalability Evaluation
Release date: 08 February 2010
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Echelon Corporation commissioned Tolly to benchmark the scalability of its Networked Energy Services system and verify that its system could deliver comprehensive metering data from at least five million electric meters in under six hours.
This report will be of interest to utility companies in both the Americas and in Europe.
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Dell Inc. #
210127
Dell PowerConnect B-RX4 Functionality Certification and Cooperative Interoperability Evaluation
Release date: 01 February 2010
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Dell commissioned Tolly to evaluate one of its enterprise-class LAN switches for interoperability with other switch brands.
Tolly engineers subjected PowerConnect B-RX4 switches to more than a dozen tests with switches from 3Com Brocade, Cisco Systems, Enterasys Networks, Force10 Networks, Hewlett-Packard Co, IBM Corporation, and NEC Corporation. .
The Dell switch demonstrated a broad level of interoperability with other switches from seven other leading vendors for advanced LAN and routing functions at Layer 2 and Layer 3.
This testing was done in accordance with Tolly Common Test Plan #1088 - LAN Switch Interoperability.
That document is available for license and you can find more information about it on the
Tolly Common Test Plan website.
Download the free test report.
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LG-Nortel #
210123
LG-Nortel iPECS ES-3024G/GP Gigabit Managed Switches: Competitive Comparison
Release date: 01 February 2010
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LG-Nortel commissioned Tolly to benchmark the LG-Nortel iPECS ES-3024G and ES-3024GP Gigabit Ethernet managed switches to measure their performance, power consumption, PoE capabilities and general feature set. The LG-Nortel switches were compared with a pair of Cisco switches as well as an HP ProCurve switch. Testing was conducted in April 2010.
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Allot Communications Ltd. #
210103
Allot Service Gateway Sigma: Carrier-class Performance and Feature Evaluation
Release date: 25 January 2010
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Allot Communications, Ltd. commissioned Tolly to validate the application recognition performance and feature support of its Service Gateway Sigma (SG-Sigma) platform.
Tests measured the application recognition performance of the SG-Sigma platform while processing Internet Mix and standard IPv4 packet sizes. Tests also measured the performance of the SG-Sigma platform as a single chassis, as well as in a two-unit cluster. Feature certification tests focused on the ability of the SG-Sigma platform to identify asymmetric traffic patterns across different platforms in a two-unit cluster, and also the ability to ‘steer’ (selectively redirect) desired application traffic streams to internal and external service platforms. Finally tests validated the support for N+1 resiliency for the core controller modules of the SG-Sigma platform while handling application traffic.
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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. #
210101
Brocade ServerIron ADX 1000 Application Switch with Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) Acceleration
Release date: 20 January 2010
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Brocade Communications, Inc. commissioned Tolly to validate the SSL and layer 7 performance of its ServerIron ADX 1000 application switch.
Test measured both transaction and data throughput for SSL (encrypted) and unencrypted layer 7 traffic. Results were compared with vendor-published results for similar products from Cisco Systems, Citrix Systems and F5 Networks. Cost per transaction and cost per Gigabit per second of throughput were calculated for all of the systems.
Tests were based on the Tolly Common Test Plan #1077 Application Switch Performance. (For more information see http://CommonTestPlan.org.)
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Avaya, Inc. #
210118
Avaya ERS 5000 LAN Switching Performance vs. Cisco Catalyst and HP ProCurve
Release date: 17 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2 switching performance, resiliency and ease of use delivered by the company’s stackable Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series of switches. The Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series of stackable switches tested include 24- and 48-port versions of 5510, 5520 and 5530 models.
Engineers measured the performance and resiliency characteristics of the Ethernet Routing Switch 5000 series switches against Cisco Systems, Inc. Catalyst 3750G switches and Hewlett-Packard Co. ProCurve 3400cl switches.
Tolly Group engineers measured the frame forwarding rate, latency and standard deviation of latency (jitter) characteristics of an eight-switch stack of Avaya switches against similarly configured stacks of Cisco Catalyst 3750G and HP ProCurve 3400cl switches. The engineers also examined the resiliency of an eight-switch stack by examining the impact of a single unit failure in a VLAN on the frame forwarding rate in a different VLAN in the stack. Engineers also measured the amount of usable Layer 2, zero-loss throughput and latency as experienced by users in a standalone switch. Finally, engineers measured the failover times of the Rapid Spanning Tree Protocol (RSTP) and Avaya's Split Multi-Link Trunking (SMLT) technologies.
Testing was conducted in September 2005.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210117
Avaya ERS 2500 Family LAN Switch vs Cisco Catalyst and HP ProCurve
Release date: 16 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the company’s Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 2500 switches to determine their frame forwarding rate, throughput, and cost-per-Gigabit of throughput delivered.
Engineers measured the ERS 2526T and ERS 2550T performance against Cisco Systems, Inc. Catalyst 2960-24TC and 48TC and ProCurve Networking by HP Switch 2626 and 2650 Layer 2/3 Switches.
Tests were conducted in March 2007.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210116
Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 Layer 2 Performance and Resiliency
Release date: 15 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned The Tolly Group to measure the Layer 2 switching performance and resiliency of the company’s stackable Ethernet Routing Switch 4500 series switches.
Tolly Group engineers measured the Layer 2, zero-loss throughput and standard deviation (Jitter) for an eight-unit stack. In addition, they reported the stackable switching capacity, or the total switching throughput “external” to users and “internal” between switch stack elements. Engineers also examined stack resiliency.
Testing was conducted in May 2007.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210114
Avaya Ethernet Routing Switch 5510, 5520, 5530 Layer2 Performance, Resiliency and Ease of Use
Release date: 14 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the Layer 2 switching performance, resiliency and ease of use delivered by the company’s stackable Ethernet Routing Switch 5510, 5520 and 5530.
Tolly Group engineers measured the amount of usable Layer 2, zero-loss throughput as experienced by users. In addition, they reported the stackable switching capacity, or the total switching throughput “external” to users and “internal” between switch stack elements. The “internal” portion of this is not directly usable by end-user applications. Engineers also noted the latency and standard deviation (Jitter) of the three Nortel stackable switches in a variety of configurations and handing different traffic frame sizes.
Engineers also examined an Intelligent Auto Unit Replacement feature to verify that in the event of a switch failure within the stack, other switches continue to function and the dormant unit can be hot swapped without impacting stack activity. Lastly, Tolly Group engineers noted their observations regarding the ease-of-use in configuring and managing the Avaya stackable switches.
Testing was conducted in September 2005.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210113
Avaya: Performance, Resiliency and TCO Comparison to Cisco/HP ProCurve Across Network Classes
Release date: 13 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned The Tolly Group over the last two years to benchmark the performance, and evaluate the features/functions, of products that serve every facet of the enterprise network, from the data center to the remote branch office.
The aim was to measure, objectively, the performance, and evaluate the resiliency and TCO, of Avaya products versus products from Cisco Systems, Inc. and HP ProCurve. Tolly Group engineers examined products for the data center, for campus LANs, for wide area networks, branch offices, and also for application acceleration products to speed the performance of business applications.
This report provides a retrospective of Avaya-focused reports dating from 2005 to 2007, with emphasis on showing how Avaya addresses these factors to offer products that surpass competitors.
Testing was conducted from 2005 through 2007.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210112
Avaya Ethernet Routing Swtich 8300 vs Cisco Catalyst 4500
Release date: 12 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned Tolly to evaluate the Layer 2 switching performance, resiliency and ease of use delivered by the company’s chassis-based Ethernet Routing Switch (ERS) 8300 which is deployed in enterprise wiring closets, or as an aggregation or a core switch. The Avaya ERS 8300 modules tested include Switch Fabric Modules, plus 24- and 48-port GbE interface modules and a 10GbE module.
Engineers measured the performance, resiliency characteristics and power consumption of the ERS 8300 and a comparable Cisco Catalyst 4500 chassis-based switch with the maximum allowable equivalency in module configuration. Engineers also measured resilient performance between the Avaya ERS 8300 running switch clustering and the Cisco Catalyst 4500 running High Availability (HA) solutions.
Tests were conducted in January 2008.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210111
Avaya Secure Router 4134 vs. Cisco ISR 3845
Release date: 11 January 2010
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Tolly engineers examined the Avaya Secure Router 4134, a modular switch that Avaya designed to support a range of advanced network services – including IPv4/IPv6 routing, high-performance WAN, high-density Ethernet switching, Power over Ethernet, Voice over IP (VoIP) and security – in a single integrated platform. The Secure Router 4134 is designed to meet the needs of enterprise branch, regional or even headquarters sites.
Tolly engineers compared the performance and power consumption of the Secure Router 4134 against a commonly deployed Cisco ISR 3845, an integrated service router. While engineers measured throughput and power consumption, they also used the hands-on data to calculate initial deployment costs and operational costs over a five-year lifespan to demonstrate how the Avaya switch can provide an effective and cost-efficient option to the Cisco ISR 3845.
Hands-on testing of Avaya's Secure Router 4134 shows that the enterprise-class branch router not only delivers throughput that matches or exceeds the widely deployed Cisco ISR 3845, but it does so using less energy, and can reduce costs by 24% over the long-term.
Testing was conducted in September 2008.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210110
Avaya Converged Data Network Solution Evaluation
Release date: 10 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned Tolly to evaluate a converged network infrastructure for enterprise users utilizing a wide array of Avaya switches, routers and IP phones to determine the energy usage at critical areas of deployment and to project the energy costs of operating the equipment over a five-year span.
Tolly engineers compared the energy consumption of the Avaya products, in terms of the power to operate the devices, as well as the power consumed in relation to heat dissipation. Results were compared with products from Cisco Systems, Inc.
Tolly engineers measured the energy usage (in terms of watts) for switch operation and heat dissipation for switches deployed in large- and medium-sized enterprise networks, in mid-sized companies, and enterprise branch offices. Engineers also tested IP phone endpoints from both companies.
Tests were conducted in May 2008.
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Avaya, Inc. #
210115
Avaya ERS 4548 Layer 2 Switch Performance vs Cisco Catalyst 3560 and 3750
Release date: 09 January 2010
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Avaya commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate the company’s stackable Ethernet Routing Switch 4548GT-PWR to determine its Layer 2 switching performance, stack resiliency and cost-per-Gigabit of throughput delivered.
The Avaya ERS 4548GT-PWR is a member of Avaya’s ERS 4500 series of stackable switches that includes Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) models designed to provide high-density desktop connectivity to mid and large enterprise customers’ wiring closets.
Engineers measured the bidirectional Layer 2 performance of the ERS 4548GTPWR in a stack configuration and in standalone mode. Engineers also measured the stackable performance and resiliency characteristics of the Avaya ERS 4548GTPWR in a five-switch stack against a Cisco Systems Inc. C3750G-48PS. Tolly Group engineers also measured the standalone performance of the Avaya ERS 4548GTPWR against the Cisco C3750G-48PS and Cisco C3560G-48PS switches to calculate the cost-per-Gigabit of throughput. The Cisco C3560G-48PS is not a stackable switch and was not used in the five-switch stack performance test.
Tests were conducted in May 2007.
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Attachmate Corp. #
209147
Reflection for IBM 2008 Feature Evaluation with Microsoft Windows 7
Release date: 04 January 2010
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Attachmate commissioned Tolly to evaluate the company’s Reflection for IBM 2008 terminal emulation software to verify its productivity features along with the Microsoft Windows 7 and Office integration.
Tolly Group engineers evaluated Reflection for IBM 2008 features and Windows integration comparing it to IBM Personal Communications 5.9.5.1 (PCOM), Micro Focus RUMBA 7.5.2 (RUMBA), and Open Text HostExplorer 2008 mainframe terminal emulation offerings. Attachmate Reflection for IBM 2008 delivered superior security, user productivity and Microsoft Windows 7 integration compared to IBM Personal Communications, Micro Focus RUMBA and Open Text HostExplorer 2008.
Download the free report.
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Tolly Common RFP, LLC #
RFP1077
Tolly Common Test Plan: Application Switches (Load Balancers)
Release date: 15 December 2009
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The Tolly Common Test Plan series is a series of "Best Practices" Guides that provide field-tested product evaluation methodologies.
More information about this test plan can be found on the Tolly Common Test Plan Application Switch overview page
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3Com Corp. #
209143
H3C S5800/S5820X Series Flex Chassis 10GbE Switches Performance and Feature Validation
Release date: 14 December 2009
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3Com commissioned Tolly to evaluate the feature set and performance of its H3C S5800/S5820X Series Flex Chassis 10GbE switches.
Engineers tested Layer 2 and Layer 3 throughput over Gigabit and 10Gigabit Ethernet ports and also evaluated feature support at Layer 2 and Layer 3 and certified more than 140 separate product features.
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Tolly Common RFP, LLC #
RFP1130
Tolly Common Test Plan #1130 - Data Loss Prevention
Release date: 01 December 2009
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The Tolly Common Test Plan series is a series of "Best Practices" Guides that provide field-tested product evaluation methodologies.
More information about this test plan can be found on the Tolly Common Test Plan Data Loss Prevention overview page
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Wedge Networks #
209141
Wedge Networks Anti-virus Effectiveness vs. Fortinet
Release date: 15 November 2009
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Wedge Networks commissioned Tolly to benchmark the anti-virus effectiveness and network performance of their BeSecure NDP-2040 Web Security Gateway and compare that with Fortinet's FortiGate 3600A security appliance.
Test were run using both the Extended WildList (August 2009) and the VX Heavens virus collections.
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VMware #
209140
VMware View 3 Premier VDI Implementation Comparison versus Microsoft
Release date: 03 November 2009
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VMware commissioned Tolly to evaluate the installation of their VMware View 3 Premier versus Microsoft's VDI solution, as well as the process for deployment of virtual desktop environments.
The goal of the test was to help prospective users of the VMware and Microsoft virtual desktop infrastructure solutions better understand the process of setting up and managing the respective VDI environments while only using the tools provided by each vendor. The latest release offerings were used for each of the solutions
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Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. #
209150
Brocade ServerIron ADX 10000 10 GbE Performance and Scalability
Release date: 01 November 2009
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Brocade Communications, Inc. commissioned Tolly to validate the performance of its ServerIron ADX 10000 application switch. This device was outfitted with 16 10 Gigabit Ethernet connections and ran 32 application processing cores.
Test covered L4-7 performance measuring transactions and connections per second, aggregate bandwidth, DNS query response capacity and resistance to distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks.
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NETGEAR, Inc. #
209131
ProSecure™ UTM10 Unified Threat Management Appliance: Malware Detection Evaluation
Release date: 26 October 2009
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NETGEAR commissioned Tolly to conduct a malware detection accuracy evaluation of the ProSecure UTM10, Fortinet FortiGate-60B, SonicWALL TZ 100, SonicWALL TZ 210 and WatchGuard Firebox Edge X55e UTM appliances.
Tests focused on the malware detection capabilities of the above mentioned UTM appliances using their default security policies, over the Web traffic and email vectors using HTTP, POP3 and SMTP protocols. Test malware samples consisted of The WildList Organization International’s latest WildList (a list of viruses and worms found propagating on the Internet) along with other major Win32 malware.
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