Router Testing - Why Mu?

Customer Challenges

The Mu Solution

• Dizzying complexity
  The inherently diverse deployment scenarios, due to the number of configuration options available in routing protocols, result in dizzying complexity. Traditional tools are unable to handle the complexity of the challenge presented by testing routing protocols.

• Mu simplifies the testing process by letting you focus on your network and your requirements instead of the specifications. The Mu solution realistically models the service logic of your system as a whole, ensuring that all test cases generated are customized to your service, your applications and your configurations.

• Resiliency concerns
  Routers are a critical foundational element of networks, so reliability issues with the protocol handlers can lead to costly service interruptions and network downtime.

• Mu provides automatic generation of thousands of malformed fuzz tests. This helps you greatly increase test coverage and improve system reliability.

• Rapidly expanding usage
  Even though the list of routing protocols is not growing very quickly, existing ones are being used for more tasks. New features and applications are constantly being added, causing testing to lag behind development.

• Mu enables you to nimbly keep up with the fast evolving technologies. The automated nature of the Mu solution helps you reduce the time to create and execute tests, so testing can begin as soon as new features are ready.

• Interoperability challenges
  Interoperability and regression are key requirements for router vendors and the operators that depend on them. However, standards-based or load-oriented test tools do not fully address these challenges.

• Mu’s stateful replication of complex configurations plus automated regression reduces the need for capital investment and manual set-up of numerous third-party systems.