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Description PRODUCT UPDATE CyberFlood and Avalanche Release: CF v24.3 and AV v5.47 CyberFlood and Avalanche Releases Now Available! Spirent is pleased to announce the release of CyberFlood v24.3 and Avalanche v5.47. Both solutions are feature rich and bring new capabilities that expand the value and use cases for our powerful security and performance testing solutions. As new content and maintenance releases, these versions include new features, in addition to numerous critical issue resolutions.   New Load Specifications for CyberFlood Advanced Mixed Traffic Improved CyberFlood Virtual Environment Support New DDoS capabilities for CyebrFlood Advanced Mixed Traffic And More     Release CyberFlood 24.3 Key New Features New load specifications for Advanced Mixed Traffic Users can now apply more advanced load control for powerful Advanced Mixed Traffic tests enabling more complex L4-7 traffic conditions and scenarios to model realistic enterprise and telco traffic patterns over a time period. The new traffic patterns include - Stair, Burst, Sinusoid, and Sawtooth. For all new patterns, users can control repetition, ramp time, burst settings, and more for maximum configuration flexibility. DDoS for Advanced Mixed Traffic (AMT)* Enhanced DDoS for AMT enables users to parameterize and customize the attack vectors​ and combine with a legitimate traffic mix within the AMT workflow. Mixing DDoS and legitimate traffic is a critical test to validate resiliency of firewalls and DDoS mitigation solutions. As a phase 1 delivery, users can easily add DDoS to Advanced Mixed Traffic tests including HTTP GET, HTTP POST, and DNS Query Flooding attacks. In addition, existing legitimate HTTP and DNS protocol emulations have been enhanced for improved realism and to respond to DDoS mitigation challenges such as redirect or when DNS UDP response flag is truncated, switching to TCP.    TestCloud Apps Over Native HTTP A subset of the TestCloud Apps (HTTP-based) now run over native HTTP protocol stack, improving stability of mixed application testing as well as support for more complex Proxy and SSL/IPsec VPN topologies. Improved Load Constraint Control Users can now better control the ramp up time phase during a test run so as not to potentially overwhelm the device under test allowing for more accurate and efficient test execution. CyberFlood Virtual Updates Numerous updates have been made for CyberFlood Virtual allowing for more configurations and environment options: Admin support to sync CFv to an external NTP server. CFv for OpenStack, KVM and GCP now supports multi-queue virtio for improved network performance scale over more vCPUs in the environment. CFv support for ESXi 8.0 and removal of support for ESXi 6.5. CyberFlood for Containers now support side-car deployments to validate Service Mesh architecture. C100-S3 Extreme 2x10G Profile Support To align with other platforms, the C100-S3 now supports Extreme 2x10G profile which places all available CPU and memory resources behind two active 10G interfaces, for maximum computational-intensive traffic profiles. And More – Please see the latest release notes for all new features for CyberFlood v24.3. Product Webpage https://www.spirent.com/products/cybersecurity-compliance-test     Release Avalanche 5.47 Key New Features Support DNS Redirect and UDP to TCP Stack Switching on Truncated Messages DNS protocol emulation has been enhanced to improve overall protocol realism and respond to DDoS mitigation challenges such as redirect or when DNS UDP response flag is truncated, switching to TCP.   Avalanche Over CyberFlood Virtual Updates Numerous updates have been made for Avalanche over CyberFlood Virtual allowing for more configurations and environment options including: Admin support to sync CFv instance to an external NTP server. Avalanche over CFv support for ESXi 8.0 and removal of support for ESXi 6.5. And More - Please see the latest release notes for all new features for Avalanche v5.47. Product Webpage https://www.spirent.com/products/avalanche-security-testing     Software Availability The latest CyberFlood v24.2 and Avalanche v5.46 software can be downloaded from the CSC via the Download tab by selecting: Controlled Release > CyberFlood/Avalanche Resources Release Notes: CyberFlood v24.3 & CyberFlood with GUOMI support Release Notes: Avalanche v5.47 Note: * DDoS for Advanced Mixed Traffic tests requires the CyberFlood Protocol DDoS or the Volumetric DDoS license, which are sold separately.