 The DPIBench™ benchmark will provide a standardized, industry-accepted method of evaluating systems and processors performing Deep-Packet Inspection
- Targets network security appliances
- Measures throughput and latency and quantifies number of flows
- Enables consumers of firewall technologies with an objective means of selecting a solution from the myriad of vendor offerings
DPIBench™ will benefit consumers, system vendors, middleware developers, and processor vendors
- Creates a common set of parameters that can be tested using a standard methodology
- Datasheet numbers aren't what the average customer finds when installing the device in his network (companies give the optimistic version, not the realistic numbers which consumers and IT personnel will encounter when their systems are deployed in the real world)
General Features
- Focus on common Internet traffic protocols: HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, FTP, P2P
- Includes limited efficacy test for verification (validation of malware blocking and ensuring termination of the correct number of flows)
- Track IPS/IDP data transfers, gateway antivirus, and anti-spyware file transfers
- Analyzes common protocol traffic on standard and "altered" ports
- Options to run traffic with no encryption, transfer compressed files, and run traffic over HTTPS
- Accounts for a variety of certification and classification levels (size of signature database, number of supported flows, ability to target a specific DPIMark
Join the EEMBC DPIBench™ workgroup to help ensure a meaningful and fair representation for your company's products.
- DPIBench™ will highlight the strengths and weaknesses of DPI systems, processors, and middleware
Participate in the DPIBench™ discussion group: http://groups.google.com/group/eembc-dpibench
Chairperson
- Jeff Caldwell, DELL SonicWALL
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