Akamai CloudTest vs. Spirent TestCenter

We were designing an Airlines reservation system, where we wanted to check the maximum number if reservation our system can handle, this tool helped us to get the test results but the issue was from set up point of view, the initial set up took too much time. But we were able to achieve our Reservation system process.

Incentivized

Spirent solution is well suited to qualify a Lan infrastructure bandwidth capacity or a device itself capacity such as a router or a firewall for example. But this solution in our case is also well suited to test a complex and numbered mpls environment. I would not recommend it to a small business as the solution is very expensive: châssis and card cost are expensive and the solution requires to be an advanced user in system, not only on network devices

Incentivized

• Integration Call's like REST
• Integration Call's like SOAP
• Performance Testing
• Load Testing on Load Balancer

Incentivized

• Bandwidth test
• QoS and traffic type generation
• Software platform availability
• Technical Support

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• Report generation is difficult
• Some graphs are not displaying accurate results
• More information are missing with respect to load testing

Incentivized

• QA
• Various bugs to fix on software installation
• Technical documentation
• No Spirent classes available
• Lack to fix major issues such as ntp for latency calculation

Incentivized

7 because they lack to improve some major bugs we have exchanged about with them

Incentivized

The bundle of features that other tools provide is much higher when compared to the one provided by Akamai CloudTest, this is something they need to focus on Priority. Most tools comes with default setup and ends to end testing scenario that can be covered, such as Regression testing. From Akamai CloudTest this is a missing features that can be added up soon.

Incentivized

I wasn't able to specifically test other big products but I did use other free products in the past such as iperf, but free softwares don't allow the same level of support ans ease to use than Spirent

Incentivized

• System Hangs as where severe load testing is required
• Authentication is an issue when using OAUTH
• Scalability can be improved and also an on premise tool can be of great help

Incentivized

• Allows to qualify a link or a project to validate end of this one
• Allowed to detect various configuration issues that were fixed right after
• Allow to use virtual machines for easy remote deploykents
• Neharive: upgrade can depreciate products and newer products have sometimes better bandwidth capacity but less features

Incentivized