Performance Characterisation and Benchmarking of VNF Instances for a Network Equipment Vendor
Overview
The Client is a Network Equipment Vendor and wanted to address the Performance Degradation of VPN Gateway in GCP Cloud. CPE Devices were establishing a secure connection to the Management Network but were unable to provision the secure tunnel.
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Challenges
Networks like Small Cell, 4G and LTE were experiencing slowness in performance when IPsec tunnel was provisioned
Performance degradation while provisioning VPN Gateway from Google Cloud, IPsec tunnel and HTTP TCP
Solution
- Design: IX Load IXIA test solution for IPsec tunnel performance, Data Plane analysis and HTTP TCP performance analysis
- Test: IPsec control plane testing and analysis. HTTP TCP performance analysis, TCP connection failures. IP sec tunnel connection testing and analysis. Multi-Protocol testing of diverse traffic
- Deploy: Deployed report generation tools to populate detailed test reports and Network Statistics on tunnel performance. Customizable live traffic statistics based on L2-L4 parameters
Outcomes
- 1000+ IPsec tunnels per second is established and validated
- 98% Success rate in performance benchmarking test scenarios
