"In order to provide our customers with the highest quality service and reliability, we use the Mu-4000 to ensure the equipment deployed on our network is thoroughly tested prior to placing it into production. "

Paul Farley
Director of Network Intelligence & Security Engineering
Cox Communications

Extensions 

Protocols across all OSI layers typically have custom or proprietary extensions that are not necessarily defined in the specification. These might be evolving standards or vendor-specific extensions.

The Mu-4000 provides the ability to define custom headers and payload definitions for protocols that frequently are extended in these ways.

Mutations

Service interfaces, or protocols, are composed of various "layers" of headers and they carry "payloads." Custom headers are most likely to appear at higher layers, or in protocols that are rapidly evolving. In the case of IPTV, VoIP, IMS, web services, and other technologies, both of these apply. The Mu-4000's Mutation Analysis module allows the user to model these proprietary and/or non-standard protocol features on which service deployments depend. More importantly, the Mu-4000 is able to generate meaningful variations of these extensions automatically.

Denial of Service (DoS)

The DoS module allows the user to specify any customized protocol structure from layer-2 through layer-4+, including the ability to randomize selected headers, even across multiple layers. The Mu-4000 enables the user to create exactly the type of traffic that they need, then to deliver it at just the rate they want, using any protocol as instrumentation.