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BMWG Stress Work Item BMWG is in the Operations and Management Area and writes recommendations for benchmarking the performance characteristics of network devices Stress Test provides rigorous benchmarking for deployment readiness: Verifies operation in deployed environment Ensures System and Software stability under failure conditions Validates correct routing under stress Ensures device manageability under stress Identifies difficult to detect software bugs Increases ability to survive DoS attacks Stress test coverage has direct relationship to Operational Security |