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</lurk> I apologize for neglecting to mention the excellent test labs I've worked with in Europe, including EANTC (in Germany) and West Coast Labs (in Wales, I believe). Both are highly reputable and have access to lots of test equipment (and they know how to use it!). <lurk> On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 11:13 PM, Thomas Maufer <[email protected]> wrote: > Isocore is good, but there are many others to choose from: Network Test, > ExtremeLabs, Miercom, Core Competence, Opus One, in no particular order. I > can personally recommend all of those (I have no experience with Tolly so I > can't recommend them). > > If you are really interested in application performance, a lab is probably > a better choice than a hardware purchase since they can help you interpret > the results, especially if you'll be like most test equipment users (having > test equipment used more than 10% of the time is rare). The results you'll > get from Ixia's and Spirent's load testing tools are pretty cut and > dried...very straightforward to interpret but depending on your application > maybe relatively meaningless. For application performance, there are many > tools you could consider, many of which are very specialized and thus don't > have broad applicability. > > I'd recommend talking to any of the labs above and see what kind of testing > they would use in a given situation before you run out and buy some test > equipment. Good luck! > > > > > > > On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Tomas L. Byrnes <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> For independent testing, Kevin Tolly's been at it a long time, and has >> shown himself to be fair. >> >> http://www.tolly.com/ >> >> >> >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Sean Hafeez [mailto:[email protected]] >> > Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 2:07 PM >> > To: Frank P. Troy >> > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] >> > Subject: Re: Independent Testing for Network Hardware >> > >> > IXIA makes a nice product depending on what you want to do. I >> > have one here with some 10G line cards. >> > >> > -Sean >> > >> > On Jul 10, 2008, at 3:02 PM, Frank P. Troy wrote: >> > >> > > I can recommend Isocore http://www.isocore.com/ (the same >> > folks that >> > > run the MPLS conference). Talk to Rajiv Papneja >> > > [[email protected]]. >> > > >> > > Regards, >> > > Frank >> > > >> > > ------------------------------------ >> > > Frank P. Troy >> > > 703-396-8700 >> > > [email protected] >> > > ------------------------------------- >> > > >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: Brian Knoll (TT) [mailto:[email protected]] >> > > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2008 11:16 AM >> > > To: [email protected] >> > > Subject: Independent Testing for Network Hardware >> > > >> > > Can anyone recommend a reliable independent testing company >> > that tests >> > > network hardware performance? >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > We are considering buying testing hardware (right now we >> > are looking >> > > at Spirent TestCenter) and I wanted to see if there were other >> > > options... >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > Brian Knoll >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > >> > >> >> >
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