Chunghwa Telecom selects Spirent for cloud security testing

Chunghwa Telecom Laboratories (CHTTL), the research and development arm of Chunghwa Telecom in Taiwan, has chosen solutions from Spirent Communications to help validate the security of its cloud computing centres.

CHTTL is employing Spirent Avalanche Virtual, an ‘all-in-one’ cloud testing solution, as well as Spirent Avalanche, a layer 4-7 application performance test solution.

Testing with Spirent will enable CHTTL to simulate attacks in a cloud computing environment for virtual firewall testing and to measure the performance of virtualised network infrastructures and applications deployed in the cloud.

According to Chunghwa Telecom, the new security solutions enable it to ensure that its cloud platform is reliably delivering the business benefits of elastic computing.

Last year, Chunghwa Telecom announced plans to launch four cloud computing centres aimed at deploying a wide range of services. As was previously announced, CHTTL had already selected Spirent TestCenter Virtual for benchmarking the performance of its data centres and virtual servers.

“Many enterprises and service providers are planning to deploy cloud networks and services, and security is definitely their top concern,” said Gene Zhang, Vice President, Asia at Spirent Communications.

“By leveraging Spirent’s cloud computing test solution for both infrastructure and applications, especially our security test application tailored for virtualised networks, Chunghwa Telecom is able to ensure it offers high-performance, reliable and secure cloud services,” Zhang said.

Avalanche Virtual offers both client and server emulation, helping to accurately replicate real user traffic in cloud environments and to validate the robustness and resiliency of the cloud with encrypted traffic and threats. The product also provides empirical data to help measure the performance of applications deployed in the cloud, helping enterprises and cloud service providers to understand the impact of large-scale, cloud-based application deployments against their expected quality of experience benchmarks.

For more information on Spirent’s cloud computing test solutions, visit http://www.spirent.com/Networks-and-Applications/Cloud_Computing.aspx.