Re: Layer4 and Layer7 TPS

ADCxprt looks to be confused seeing different results posted by vendors. As
some one pointed out, the third party results also shows up great value for
the vendor who asks for report. That is the reason I was pushing for common
platform for performance and various other tests. Need a third party
certification like NSS for IPS/IDS devices.

http://netlb.blogspot.com/2009/03/need-for-third-party-certification.html

Thanks,
-Ravi.

On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 12:40 AM, LeMay, John <[email protected]> wrote:

>  As others have pointed out, tests like these are always biased. Even when
> a third party company does the testing and writes the report, if one of the
> vendors whose products are being tested paid for the test and report, you
> can be sure that vendor’s product will come out on top. This is after all
> marketing material and is designed to highlight the areas where a specific
> product outperforms the competition. There may be other products from the
> same or different vendors that may have performed better. There are also
> almost certainly tests where the devices compare less favorably or even
> outperform the main vendor, but those results would be left out of the
> report for obvious reasons. Device configuration comes into question since
> you have to question the expertise of the testing engineer across all of
> these platforms.
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> That being said, reports like this when performed by a reputable company
> are certainly a good starting point. They give a good idea of who a vendor
> sees as their main competition (usually) and of where the vendor believes
> their product excels. I never dismiss these tests completely, but I do
> realize there is a lot more to the story that isn’t being told.
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