Ixia IxLoad vs Spirent Avalanche comparison

IxLoad provides comprehensive performance tests for validation and user experience (QoE). IxLoad works by emulating web, video, voice, storage, wireless VPN, infrastructure and encapsulation protocols/security to create realistic scenarios. With a modular design, IxLoad scales infrastructure in real time, producing metrics that can quickly identify network impairments and isolate breakpoints.

Spirent’s Avalanche Layer 4-7 testing solution provides capacity, security and performance testing for network infrastructures, cloud and virtual environments, Web application infrastructures and media services that ensures Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE) for your customers. Avalanche pinpoints network capacity with the highest performing Layer 4-7 traffic generation capability available from 1Gbps to 100Gbps.