VIAVI Solutions Inc. has announced the launch of its next-generation CyberFlood CF1000 Appliance, a native 400G platform designed for advanced security and application performance testing. The solution enables large-scale validation of multi-terabit security and AI-driven data center infrastructures.
Built for network equipment vendors, hyperscale data center operators, and service providers, the CyberFlood CF1000 supports OSI Layer 4-7 validation of critical systems under real-world conditions. It simulates encrypted and dynamically mixed traffic environments, allowing comprehensive testing of technologies such as next-generation firewalls (NGFWs), application delivery controllers (ADCs), DDoS protection systems, VPN gateways, zero-trust frameworks, and AI inference networks.
By integrating high-scale encrypted traffic generation, continuous threat emulation, quantum-safe cryptography validation, and AI workload simulation into a single platform, the CF1000 addresses key limitations of traditional testing solutions, helping organizations close validation gaps and better prepare for next-generation network demands.
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Dell’Oro Group projects that the global network security market will surpass $30 billion by 2026, driven by the rise of Zero Trust strategies, expanding AI workloads, and continued cloud adoption. Although software-based security solutions are seeing the fastest growth, high-capacity physical platforms remain essential for rigorously validating performance limits prior to deployment.
“As networks move toward 400G and higher speeds, the combination of encrypted traffic, AI‑driven workloads and distributed cloud architectures is raising the bar for security performance validation. Platforms that can realistically test security and application infrastructure at scale are becoming an essential part of how vendors and operators reduce risk and confidently deploy next‑generation networks,” said Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Director, Enterprise Security and Networking, Dell’Oro Group.
“The move to ultra high-speed, highly secure AI networks has fundamentally changed the way security and performance must be validated,” said Sashi Jeyaretnam, Senior Director, Security Product Management, VIAVI. “The challenge has intensified as organizations build infrastructure to enable the agentic era, which require that quantum security, AI inference workloads and AI-enabled security policies all work seamlessly together. CF1000 delivers the performance and realism customers need to validate modern data center infrastructure and security architectures, while helping them reduce validation timelines, optimize infrastructure decisions and accelerate deployments.”
The CF1000 Appliance delivers native 400G security testing in a compact 2RU form factor, with support for four 400G OSFP ports and eight 100G QSFP28 ports, enabling up to 1.2Tbps of real‑world application traffic testing without the need for an external switching infrastructure. Designed to validate today’s encrypted traffic demands at scale and help organizations prepare for increasingly encrypted networks and emerging quantum-era threats, the platform provides industry‑leading Transport Layer Security (TLS) performance, supporting more than 500Gbps of encrypted throughput and up to 800,000 TLS v1.3 connections per second.
In addition, CF1000 extends CyberFlood’s capabilities with highly scalable AI inference traffic emulation, enabling realistic testing of large language model (LLM) performance and AI‑driven application workloads at terabit scale. This allows customers to evaluate end-to-end AI inference infrastructure and LLM application performance, and to assess critical trade-offs between cost efficiency and user experience.
