Keysight Technologies Network Testing & Visibility
Comprehensive Network Testing & Visibility for modern, and secure networks
Red Helix partners with Keysight Technologies, a global leader in network test, emulation, and visibility solutions, to help organisations design, validate, and operate secure, high-performance networks across physical, virtual, and cloud environments.
Keysight’s Test & Visibility portfolio enables teams to validate network behaviour under real-world conditions, gain deep insight into live traffic, and strengthen security posture by ensuring the right data reaches the right monitoring and security tools, at the right time. Partnering with Red Helix and Keysight allowed you to design, emulate, test, and secure global connectivity with confidence.
Network Test & Security
Ensuring Performance, Resilience, and Security Across Modern Networks
Keysight Network Test & Security solutions support wired, Wi-Fi, 3G/4G/LTE, and 5G networks, enabling validation in both pre-deployment testing and live production environments. These solutions deliver actionable intelligence to identify performance bottlenecks, expose security weaknesses, and optimise network operations.
Cloud Test
CyPerf simulates realistic application traffic alongside coordinated cyber-attack activity across advanced network architectures, including SD-WAN, TLS inspection, load balancing, and web application firewalls.
By interleaving user workflows with attack scenarios, CyPerf enables organisations to accurately model complex, distributed environments and validate performance and security simultaneously.
Key Benefits:
- Realistic application and attack traffic modelling
- Validation of security controls under load
- Faster, more accurate assessment of network resilience
Hawkeye provides continuous, centralised visibility across remote sites, data centres, cloud services, and branch locations, all from a single platform.
It enables teams to track everything, from remote user experience and voice quality to branch Wi-Fi performance and SaaS connectivity.
Key Benefits:
- End-to-end network performance monitoring
- Improved user experience visibility
- Centralised management and insight
IxChariot delivers immediate insight into network performance across complex environments, supporting both pre-deployment testing and post-deployment monitoring.
Key Benefits:
- Rapid performance assessment
- Faster optimisation cycles
- Increased confidence in network readiness
Protocol and Load Test
Validate Scalability and Infrastructure Performance
The Keysight AI Data Centre Builder emulates realistic traffic from hundreds of AI accelerators using high-density AresONE-S/M appliances.
It enables detailed performance analysis and ‘what-if’ modelling at a fraction of the cost, power, and complexity of GPU-based testing, supporting speeds up to 800GE.
Key Benefits:
- AI data centre traffic emulation
- Scalable performance validation
- Reduced testing cost and power consumption
L2–L3 Network Infrastructure Testing
IxNetwork provides scalable Layer 2–3 performance testing for validating network infrastructure under realistic conditions.
Key Benefits:
- High-scale infrastructure validation
- Accurate performance benchmarking
- Supports evolving network architectures
The Elastic Network Generator is a flexible, composable platform designed for continuous integration and automated testing.
It supports vendor-neutral Open Traffic Generator models, integrates with leading emulators, and works seamlessly with Keysight hardware and software.
Key Benefits:
- CI/CD-friendly network testing
- Open and extensible architecture
- End-to-end validation workflows
Automated Protocol Compliance & Interoperability Testing
IxANVL provides a comprehensive suite of protocol libraries and tools to validate protocol compliance and interoperability.
Its intuitive interface and automation capabilities enable teams to emulate large, multi-node environments while reducing test cost and accelerating release cycles.
Key Benefits:
- Extensive automated protocol testing
- Faster certification and validation
- Higher confidence in product quality
Network Visibility
Delivering the Right Data to the Right Tools
Keysight Network Visibility solutions provide line-rate, zero-packet-loss access to network traffic, ensuring monitoring and security tools receive complete, accurate data across high-speed environments, including 400G networks.
Keysight Network Packet Brokers aggregate, filter, and distribute traffic to monitoring, security, and analytics tools with hardware-accelerated performance and zero packet loss.
Key Capabilities
- Traffic aggregation and load balancing
- SSL decryption and application-aware filtering
- Simplified rule management and scalability
Keysight bypass switches protect inline security and monitoring tools by automatically rerouting traffic if a device fails or is taken offline for maintenance.
Key Benefits:
- Eliminates single points of failure
- Supports active-active and active-standby configurations
- Maintains continuous network availability
Keysight Network Taps provide passive, continuous access to 100% of network traffic without impacting performance.
Key Benefits:
- Full packet visibility, including errors
- Copper and fibre support up to 400 Gbps
- Plug-and-play deployment
Keysight Network Aggregators consolidate traffic from multiple taps or SPAN ports to efficiently feed monitoring and security tools, particularly in lower-to-medium speed environments.
Key Benefits:
- Cost-effective visibility
- Reduced tool port requirements
- Simplified deployment
Keysight’s Cloud Visibility platform delivers packet-level insight across public, private, and hybrid cloud environments, providing critical visibility where traditional tools fall short.
Key Benefits:
- Cloud-native, platform-agnostic design
- Scales with cloud footprint
- Improves threat detection and performance insight
KVO is a centralised management and automation platform that delivers a single pane of glass for physical, virtual, and cloud visibility architectures.
Key Capabilities:
- Intent-based visibility policies
- Role-based access and custom dashboards
- Automated workflows and self-healing visibility fabric
Why Red Helix & Keysight Technologies
Red Helix combines Keysight’s industry-leading test and visibility technologies with expert design, integration, and operational support. We help organisations validate performance, strengthen security, and operate networks with confidence.
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