Case Study: Yahoo ensures network performance and security with Ixia BreakingPoint

Yahoo! Ensures Performance, Security, and Stability of Network Equipment and Cloud Infrastructure

Yahoo, a major internet and software company, faced the challenge of ensuring the performance, security, and stability of its massive global network and cloud infrastructure. With tremendous growth and an increasingly complex environment, its security team lacked a way to validate the resiliency of its equipment against extreme user load and malicious attacks. Yahoo turned to vendor Ixia and its BreakingPoint solution to address this need.

Ixia's BreakingPoint solution enabled Yahoo to recreate realistic Internet-scale conditions to test its infrastructure. This allowed them to standardize equipment validation, simulate millions of users and cyber attacks, and probe for weaknesses with protocol fuzzing. As a result, Yahoo can now measure and add capacity to withstand peak load, conduct repeatable equipment evaluations, and validate its defenses against large-scale DDoS attacks, ensuring performance and security for its global audience.

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