CyberFlood is a powerful, easy-to-use test solution that generates realistic application traffic to validate the performance, scalability, and resiliency of today’s app-aware infrastructure.
Available across virtual, cloud, container, and high-performance appliances, CyberFlood enables teams to confidently test AI Inference infrastructures, firewalls, SASE and ZTNA architectures, VPNs, load balancers, and AI-driven environments with highly realistic stateful Layer 4–7 traffic.
By replicating production conditions, including encrypted, high-bandwidth, and policy-rich workloads, CyberFlood helps organizations uncover performance limits, identify gaps, and ensure infrastructure is ready for real-world demands before deployment.
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Advanced AI ValidationBenchmark AI Inference performance and security at scale using realistic AI-driven workloads and service behavior
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App-Aware Device TestingValidate L4–7 infrastructure using realistic application mixes, browser emulation, and automated goal-seeking
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Encrypted Traffic ScaleVerify HTTPS/TLS throughput, connection rates, concurrent sessions, VPN scale, and application responsiveness under massive encrypted loads with terabit-class traffic generation
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Vendor-Neutral BenchmarkingUse objective methodologies like NetSecOPEN to compare architectures fairly and ensure real-world performance
Use Cases
Advanced AI Inference Validation
Validate AI inference performance and security at scale. Test LLMs under real-world conditions before production. Ensure resilience.
Test App-Aware Devices
CyberFlood is a powerful, easy-to-use test solution that generates realistic application traffic to test the performance, scalability, and security of your app-aware networking devices and solutions.
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CF1000 CyberFlood Appliance
- One appliance can create 1.2 Terabit of application traffic generation for large-scale Layer 4–7 testing
- High-performance over 500Gbps per appliance of HTTPS/TLS validation for encrypted traffic environments
- Realistic mixed traffic, replay, and application behavior modeling
- Modular scale-out for multi-terabit validation environments
- Support for AI inference assessment, VPN, ZTNA, application delivery, and security infrastructure testing
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CF400 CyberFlood Appliance
- Capable of generating over 400 Gbps of application traffic and 200 Gbps of encrypted testing in a single unit
- Supports 8 x 100G QSFP28 interfaces with quint-speed options for 10G, 25G, 40G, 50G, and 100G configurations
- Industry-leading performance that supports up to 4.0M HTTP connections per second and 320 million sustained connections
- Exhaustive testing capabilities for HTTPS/TLS, SSL VPN/IPsec, and application identification using the extensive TestCloud library
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CyberFlood Virtual, Container, Cloud
- Users access millions of real-world sessions across hundreds of thousands of applications, including the latest GenAI apps, social media, and enterprise software.
- Deploy flexible traffic generation agents directly within containerized (Kubernetes, OpenShift, EKS) or virtualized (SDN, SD-WAN) environments to benchmark elastic scalability and right-size infrastructure.
- Specialized support for AI/LLM policy validation, including prompt injection detection, alongside the industry’s first quantum-safe cryptography (PQC) testing for FIPS-readiness.
- Full API support allows for automated, repeatable testing throughout the development lifecycle, ensuring new services meet performance standards before hitting production.
- Comprehensive validation of HTTPS/TLS, IPsec, and SSL VPN capacities, enabling precise measurement of tunnel setup and data throughput under heavy encrypted loads.
- Support for SASE and ZTNA infrastructure validation across hybrid, private, and public cloud ecosystems.
Application Notes
Brochures
Data Sheets
- C200 for CyberFlood and Avalanche
- CF30 for CyberFlood
- CF400 for CyberFlood and Avalanche
- CyberFlood Advanced Mixed Traffic
- CyberFlood AI Inference Testing
- CyberFlood Application Performance Testing Solution
- CyberFlood Container
- CyberFlood DPU and SmartNIC Assessment Solution
- CyberFlood IPSec Testing
- CyberFlood Malware Testing
- CyberFlood Security Testing
- CyberFlood TestCloud
- CyberFlood Virtual
- CyberFlood Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
Training
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