World's Most Used Instant Messaging, Peer-to-Peer and Video Streaming Applications Now Supported for Network Equipment and Server Load Testing

AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - August 18, 2009) - According to a study by iPoque, a leading
European provider of deep
packet inspection (DPI) solutions, P2P file sharing continues to
dominate network bandwidth, comprising between 43 to 70 percent of Internet
traffic depending on region. This same study also revealed that streaming
video is now the fastest growing application across networks. The ability
to test network
equipment and application servers using both of these popular
application protocols is now critical to ensuring the performance and
security of network devices. BreakingPoint now provides realistic
network traffic simulation of the world's most used instant messaging
(IM), peer-to-peer (P2P) and video streaming applications for realistic
testing of network equipment and application servers.

BreakingPoint Provides Realistic Testing of the World's Most Used
Applications

-- PPLive, the world's largest all-video network, is a peer-to-peer
streaming video network created in Huazhong University of Science and
Technology. PPLive streams live television and film programs on top of
hundreds of millions of video clips, films and plays.
-- QQLive is an interactive P2P distribution platform for streaming media
developed by Tencent, China's largest and most used Internet service
portal. QQLive has more than 100 TV channels and can be viewed in a variety
of ways including through the Web and desktop programs.
-- In October 2008, BreakingPoint introduced support for China's QQ IM
(Instant Messaging) application, the most used IM application in the world.
Today's addition of QQLive and PPLive provide BreakingPoint users with the
most complete and realistic testing of the world's most used peer-to-peer,
instant messaging and video streaming applications.
-- Overall BreakingPoint provides support for the world's most popular
IM, P2P and video streaming applications including AIM®, QQIM, Windows
Live Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, Encrypted BitTorrentT, eDonkey,
Gnutella, PPLive and QQLive.

Dennis Cox, BreakingPoint CTO:

"Video streaming and peer-to-peer applications are clearly the most popular
protocols on networks today; the immense popularity of PPLive and QQLive are simply the latest evidence. As millions
of people use these and other similar applications it becomes crucial for
service providers and network device manufacturers to adopt new
testing methodologies. Testing today's network equipment and
application servers means simulating the real network; a diverse set of
global applications, realistic throughput and live security strikes.
Ignoring these factors is a sure-fire recipe for network performance
degradation and security vulnerabilities. BreakingPoint testing tools are
updated weekly with the latest application protocols and security strikes.
Your network doesn't stay the same week after week, neither should your
testing equipment."

80+ application protocols are available including AOL IM®, eDonkeyT,
Encrypted BitTorrentT, FIX/FIXT, HTTP, HTTPs, IBM DB2®, MAPI,
Microsoft® CIFS/SMB, Oracle®, PP Live, QQ IM, RADIUS, SIP, SMTP,
VMware® VMotionT Windows Live Messenger, World of Warcraft®,
Yahoo!® Messenger and many more.

About BreakingPoint

BreakingPoint accelerates the development and testing of high-performance
content-aware network equipment, ensures network resiliency and reduces
time to test with fast, accurate, responsive, and easy-to-use application, performance and
security testing tools. BreakingPoint is headquartered in Austin,
Texas, with offices throughout the world. For more information visit
www.breakingpoint.com and download the latest resources for cyber security
testing, firewall testing, application protocol fuzzing and more.