University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory (UNH-IOL) has selected performance analysis and service management services provider Spirent Communications to use its system to address network protection device (NPD) testing. Testing with Spirent will enable UNH-IOL to check that related NPDs meet necessary security requirements. UNH-IOL will use Spirent Avalanche for multi-10Gbps capacity, security and performance testing. The 1Gbps and 10Gbps Layer 4-7 multi-protocol system also delivers the ability to test devices to their limits at line rate. The system simulates daily business traffic, enabling users to understand the impact under worst case scenarios of network faults and attacks. It is compliant of multi-10Gbps of stateful application traffic generation, while injecting attacks. Spirent Avalanche provides testing for secure network communication, vulnerability assessment with around 7,000 attack profiles and user authentication including IPSec, SSL, 802.1x, Network Access Control (NAC) and RADIUS. ?