I have an extremely hard time accepting that this was a fair or real
test. I've thrown "gigs of traffic" at a TippingPoint and there was no
dying at all. I've seen them under intense ddos attacks - no problem. I
have numerous customers with "gigs of traffic" running through TP, never
have a problem with performance.
We sell Top Layer. I sold a fair number of them in 2004. They're okay
IPSs. Good performance and excellent at ddos. But, they have ample
weaknesses. You pointed out some (their business/support side is
abysmal.) We moved over to TippingPoint to replace TopLayer, because TP
did more and has outstanding performance.
Also - TippingPoint is ASIC based and can do rate limiting. In fact, Top
Layer and Tipping Point have VERY similar architectures. Their engines
are different, but their basic hardware really isn't that dissimilar.
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-----Original Message-----
From: Edward Sohn [mailto:edwardsohn@sbcglobal.net]
I have actually tested the Top Layer boxes against
a signature-based solution like Tipping Point and
Mazu Networks. In short, the Tipping Point box died
because it couldn't handle the gigs of traffic we
threw at it--exactly what Tim is describing below.
The Mazu box worked similarly.
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