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Mu Studio Performance

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“We chose Mu Studio Performance because there was no other performance testing solution capable of accurately emulating real users to test our dynamic messaging capabilities.”

Daryl Rusch
Senior Director of Quality Assurance, Front Porch

Mu Studio Performance is a purpose-built testing solution that ensures your applications and network infrastructure will perform and scale under real-world conditions and loads. With Mu Studio Performance, you can:

  • Measure the accuracy of your DPI-based detection and classification by recreating thousands of the latest applications.
  • Validate the effectiveness of policies related to billing and charging, traffic management and quality of experience (QoE) using real application traffic.
  • Test the impact of mixed security attacks and real application traffic at scale on your network.

Differentiators

  • Accurate: Mu Studio Performance recreates an application mix at scale based on real applications running on real devices (e.g., iPhone, iPad, Droid) in your production environment. Mu Studio Performance transforms the communication exchange into a replayable and stateful scenario, thereby causing the network to experience real application traffic.
  • Agile: With the integrated Mu TestCloud store, you have an immediate, constant feed of hundreds of new application scenarios every month. This includes hot, new apps as well as updates to popular apps (e.g., Skype, BitTorrent). This allows you to test the moment a new application appears on the network.
  • Simple to Use: Mu Studio Performance is designed to be so intuitive that even a casual user can quickly recreate a mix of applications at scale on the network without going through any product training. 

Key Capabilities

Mu TestCloud
  • Immediately access thousands of application test cases from a single unified UI
  • Keep up with the latest versions of these apps that being updated every month
  • Keep up with variations of these applications on different end points
  • Keep up with geographic variations of these applcations – e.g. Skype in Asia/Europe/U.S.
Multi-Track
  • Select multiple classes of applications and run them on separate tracks
  • Measure policies on a per IP or per interface or per application basis using separate tracks
  • Mix in security attacks as a separate track along with valid application traffic on other tracks
Multi-User

Multiple testers can be accessing the solution at the same time and run tests simultaneously. The UI allows for large teams of testers to use the solution at the same time.

Multi-Player

Increase the load of application traffic by increasing the number of scale appliances based on the need. The same UI can control multiple scale appliances enabling a linear increase in performance.

Detailed Metrics

Throughput, connections per second, max connections, user concurrency, bytes sent and received and much more.

Test Creation

Convert pcaps and web interactions to test cases within minutes

Complex Topologies

Test with complex topologies involving source and destination NAT and proxies

Related Information

Blog » Creating an Application Mix to Model the Production Network

Product Brief » Mu Studio Performance - the industry’s first performance testing solution purpose-built for testing next-gen firewalls, DPI and LTE networks

Webinar » Light Reading webinar discussing performance and security testing for firewalls and DPI-based systems using real apps

White Paper » Key Requirements for Selecting an Application-Aware Testing Solution

White Paper » Heavy Reading white paper about performance testing strategies for next-gen firewalls and DPI systems