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  <front>
    <title abbrev="Benchmarking for NGFW performance">Benchmarking Methodology
    for Network Security Device Performance</title>

    <author fullname="Balamuhunthan Balarajah" initials="B"
            surname="Balarajah">
      <organization>EANTC AG</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Salzufer 14</street>

          <city>Berlin</city>

          <code>10587</code>

          <region/>

          <country>Germany</country>
        </postal>

        <phone/>

        <facsimile/>

        <email>balarajah@eantc.de</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <author fullname="Carsten Rossenhoevel" initials="C"
            surname="Rossenhoevel">
      <organization>EANTC AG</organization>

      <address>
        <postal>
          <street>Salzufer 14</street>

          <city>Berlin</city>

          <code>10587</code>

          <region/>

          <country>Germany</country>
        </postal>

        <phone/>

        <facsimile/>

        <email>cross@eantc.de</email>
      </address>
    </author>

    <date month="October" year="2018"/>

    <area/>

    <workgroup>Benchmarking Methodology Working Group</workgroup>

    <keyword/>

    <keyword/>

    <abstract>
      <t>This document provides benchmarking terminology and methodology for
      next-generation network security devices including next-generation
      firewalls (NGFW), intrusion detection and prevention solutions (IDS/IPS)
      and unified threat management (UTM) implementations. The document aims
      to strongly improve the applicability, reproducibility, and transparency
      of benchmarks and to align the test methodology with today's
      increasingly complex layer 7 application use cases. The main areas
      covered in this document are test terminology, traffic profiles and
      benchmarking methodology for NGFWs to start with.</t>
    </abstract>
  </front>

  <middle>
    <section title="Introduction">
      <t>15 years have passed since IETF recommended test methodology and
      terminology for firewalls initially (<xref target="RFC2647"/>, <xref
      target="RFC3511"/>). The requirements for network security element
      performance and effectiveness have increased tremendously since then.
      Security function implementations have evolved to more advanced areas
      and have diversified into intrusion detection and prevention, threat
      management, analysis of encrypted traffic, etc. In an industry of
      growing importance, well-defined and reproducible key performance
      indicators (KPIs) are increasingly needed: They enable fair and
      reasonable comparison of network security functions. All these reasons
      have led to the creation of a new next-generation firewall benchmarking
      document.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Requirements">
      <t>The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT",
      "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this
      document are to be interpreted as described in <xref
      target="RFC2119"/>.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Scope">
      <t>This document provides testing terminology and testing methodology
      for next-generation firewalls and related security functions. It covers
      two main areas: Performance benchmarks and security effectiveness
      testing. The document focuses on advanced, realistic, and reproducible
      testing methods. Additionally, it describes test bed environments, test
      tool requirements and test result formats.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Test_Setup" title="Test Setup">
      <t>Test setup defined in this document is applicable to all benchmarking
      test scenarios described in <xref pageno="false"
      target="Benchmarking"/>.</t>

      <section title="Testbed Configuration">
        <t>Testbed configuration MUST ensure that any performance implications
        that are discovered during the benchmark testing aren't due to the
        inherent physical network limitations such as number of physical links
        and forwarding performance capabilities (throughput and latency) of
        the network devise in the testbed. For this reason, this document
        recommends avoiding external devices such as switch and router in the
        testbed as possible.</t>

        <t>However, in the typical deployment, the security devices (DUT/SUT)
        are connected to routers and switches which will reduce the number of
        entries in MAC or ARP tables of the DUT/SUT. If MAC or ARP tables have
        many entries, this may impact the actual DUT/SUT performance due to
        MAC and ARP/ND table lookup processes. Therefore, it is RECOMMENDED to
        connect Layer 3 device(s) between test equipment and DUT/SUT as shown
        in <xref format="default" target="figure1"/>.</t>

        <t>If the test equipment is capable to emulate layer 3 routing
        functionality and there is no need for test equipment ports
        aggregation, it is RECOMMENDED to configure the test setup as shown in
        <xref target="figure2"/>.</t>

        <figure anchor="figure1" suppress-title="false"
                title="Testbed Setup - Option 1">
          <artwork> +-------------------+      +-----------+      +--------------------+
 |Aggregation Switch/|      |           |      | Aggregation Switch/|
 | Router            +------+  DUT/SUT  +------+ Router             |
 |                   |      |           |      |                    |
 +----------+--------+      +-----------+      +--------+-----------+
            |                                           |
            |                                           |
+-----------+-----------+                   +-----------+-----------+
|                       |                   |                       |
| +-------------------+ |                   | +-------------------+ |
| | Emulated Router(s)| |                   | | Emulated Router(s)| |
| |     (Optional)    | |                   | |     (Optional)    | |
| +-------------------+ |                   | +-------------------+ |
| +-------------------+ |                   | +-------------------+ |
| |      Clients      | |                   | |      Servers      | |
| +-------------------+ |                   | +-------------------+ |
|                       |                   |                       |
|    Test Equipment     |                   |    Test Equipment     |
+-----------------------+                   +-----------------------+</artwork>
        </figure>

        <figure anchor="figure2" title="Testbed Setup - Option 2">
          <artwork>+-----------------------+                   +-----------------------+
| +-------------------+ |   +-----------+   | +-------------------+ |
| | Emulated Router(s)| |   |           |   | | Emulated Router(s)| |
| |    (Optional)     | +----- DUT/SUT  +-----+    (Optional)     | |
| +-------------------+ |   |           |   | +-------------------+ |
| +-------------------+ |   +-----------+   | +-------------------+ |
| |     Clients       | |                   | |      Servers      | |
| +-------------------+ |                   | +-------------------+ |
|                       |                   |                       |
|   Test Equipment      |                   |   Test Equipment      |
+-----------------------+                   +-----------------------+</artwork>
        </figure>
      </section>

      <section anchor="DUT-SUT_Configuration" title="DUT/SUT Configuration">
        <t>A unique DUT/SUT configuration MUST be used for all benchmarking
        tests described in <xref target="Benchmarking"/>. Since each DUT/SUT
        will have their own unique configuration, testers SHOULD configure
        their device with the same parameters that would be used in the actual
        deployment of the device or a typical deployment. Users MUST enable
        security features on the DUT/SUT to achieve maximum security coverage
        for a specific deployment scenario.</t>

        <t>This document attempts to define the recommended security features
        which SHOULD be consistently enabled for all the benchmarking tests
        described in <xref target="Benchmarking"/>. The table 1 below
        describes the RECOMMENDED sets of feature list which SHOULD be
        configured on the DUT/SUT.</t>

        <t>Based on customer use case, user can take a decision to enable or
        disable SSL inspection feature for “Throughput Performance with
        NetSecOPEN Traffic Mix” test scenario described in <xref
        target="Throughput_Performance_With_NetSecOPEN_Traffic_Mix"/></t>

        <t>To improve repeatability, a summary of the DUT configuration
        including description of all enabled DUT/SUT features MUST be
        published with the benchmarking results.</t>

        <figure title="Table 1: DUT/SUT Feature List">
          <artwork>               +---------------------------+
               |             NGFW          |
+------------------------------------------+
|              |       |Included  |Added to|
|DUT Features  |Feature|in initial|future  |
|              |       |Scope     |Scope   |
+------------------------------------------+
|SSL Inspection|   x   |     x    |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|IDS/IPS       |   x   |     x    |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|Web Filtering |   x   |          |    x   |
+------------------------------------------+
|Antivirus     |   x   |     x    |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|Anti Spyware  |   x   |     x    |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|Anti Botnet   |   x   |     x    |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|DLP           |   x   |          |    x   |
+------------------------------------------+
|DDoS          |   x   |          |    x   |
+------------------------------------------+
|Certificate   |   x   |          |    x   |
|Validation    |       |          |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|Logging and   |   x   |     x    |        |
|Reporting     |       |          |        |
+------------------------------------------+
|Application   |   x   |     x    |        |
|Identification|       |          |        |
+----------------------+----------+--------+   
</artwork>
        </figure>

        <t>In summary, DUT/SUT SHOULD be configured as follows:</t>

        <t><list style="symbols">
            <t>All security inspection enabled<vspace/></t>

            <t>Disposition of all traffic is logged - Logging to an external
            device is permissible<vspace/></t>

            <t>CVEs matching the following characteristics when serving the
            NVD<vspace/><list>
                <t>CVSS Version: 2</t>

                <t>CVSS V2 Metrics: AV:N/Au:N/I:C/A:C</t>

                <t>AV=Attack Vector, Au=Authentication, I=Integrity and
                A=Availability</t>

                <t>CVSS V2 Severity: High (7-10)</t>

                <t>If doing a group test the published start date and
                published end date should be the same</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>Geographical location filtering and Application Identification
            and Control configured to be triggered based on a site or
            application from the defined traffic mix<vspace/></t>
          </list></t>

        <t>In addition, it is also RECOMMENDED to configure a realistic number
        of access policy rules on the DUT/SUT. This document determines the
        number of access policy rules for three different class of DUT/SUT.
        The classification of the DUT/SUT MAY be based on its maximum
        supported firewall throughput performance number defined in the vendor
        data sheet. This document classifies the DUT/SUT in three different
        categories; namely small, medium, and maximum.</t>

        <t>The RECOMMENDED throughput values for the following classes
        are:</t>

        <t>Extra Small (XS) - supported throughput less than 1Gbit/s</t>

        <t>Small (S) - supported throughput less than 5Gbit/s</t>

        <t>Medium (M) - supported throughput greater than 5Gbit/s and less
        than 10Gbit/s</t>

        <t>Large (L) - supported throughput greater than 10Gbit/s</t>

        <t>The access rule defined in the table 2 MUST be configured from top
        to bottom in correct order shown in the table. The configured access
        policy rule MUST NOT block the test traffic used for the benchmarking
        test scenarios.</t>

        <figure title="Table 2: DUT/SUT Access List">
          <artwork>+---------------------------------------------------+---------------+
|                                                   | UD/SUT        |
|                                                   | lCssification |
|                                                   |  #ules        |
+-----------+-----------+------------------+------------+---+---+---+
|           | Match     |                  |        |   |   |   |   |
| Rules Type| Criteria  |   Description    | Action | XS| S | M | L |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Application|Application| Any application  |  block | 5 | 10| 20| 50|
|layer      |           | traffic NOT      |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | included in the  |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | test traffic     |        |   |   |   |   |
+-----------------------+ ------------------------------------------+
|Transport  |Src IP and | Any src IP use in|  block | 25| 50|100|250|
|layer      |TCP/UDP    | the test AND any |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |Dst ports  | dst ports NOT    |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | used in the test |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | traffic          |        |   |   |   |   |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|IP layer   |Src/Dst IP | Any src/dst IP   |  block | 25| 50|100|250|
|           |           | NOT used in the  |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | test             |        |   |   |   |   |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Application|Application| Applications     |  allow | 10| 10| 10| 10|
|layer      |           | included in the  |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | test traffic     |        |   |   |   |   |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Transport  |Src IP and | Half of the src  |  allow |  1|  1|  1|  1|
|layer      |TCP/UDP    | IP used in the   |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |Dst ports  | test AND any dst |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | ports used in the|        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | test traffic. One|        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | rule per subnet  |        |   |   |   |   |
+-------------------------------------------------------------------+
|IP layer   |Src IP     | The rest of the  |  allow |  1|  1|  1|  1|
|           |           | src IP subnet    |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | range used in the|        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | test. One rule   |        |   |   |   |   |
|           |           | per subnet       |        |   |   |   |   |
+-----------+-----------+------------------+--------+---+---+---+---+</artwork>
        </figure>
      </section>

      <section anchor="Test_Equipment_Configuration"
               title="Test Equipment Configuration">
        <t>In general, test equipment allows configuring parameters in
        different protocol level. These parameters thereby influencing the
        traffic flows which will be offered and impacting performance
        measurements.</t>

        <t>This document specifies common test equipment configuration
        parameters applicable for all test scenarios defined in Section 7. Any
        test scenario specific parameters are described under test setup
        section of each test scenario individually.</t>

        <section title="Client Configuration">
          <t>This section specifies which parameters SHOULD be considered
          while configuring clients using test equipment. Also, this section
          specifies the recommended values for certain parameters.</t>

          <section title="TCP Stack Attributes">
            <t>The TCP stack SHOULD use a TCP Reno variant, which include
            congestion avoidance, back off and windowing, retransmission, and
            recovery on every TCP connection between client and server
            endpoints. The default IPv4 and IPv6 MSS segments size MUST be set
            to 1460 bytes and 1440 bytes respectively and a TX and RX receive
            windows of 32768 bytes. Client initial congestion window MUST NOT
            exceed 10 times the MSS. Delayed ACKs are permitted and the
            maximum client delayed Ack MUST NOT exceed 10 times the MSS before
            a forced ACK. Up to 3 retries SHOULD be allowed before a timeout
            event is declared. All traffic MUST set the TCP PSH flag to high.
            The source port range SHOULD be in the range of 1024 - 65535.
            Internal timeout SHOULD be dynamically scalable per RFC 793.
            Client SHOULD initiate and close TCP connections. TCP connections
            MUST be closed via FIN.</t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="Client_IP" title="Client IP Address Space">
            <t>The sum of the client IP space SHOULD contain the following
            attributes. The traffic blocks SHOULD consist of multiple unique,
            discontinuous static address blocks. A default gateway is
            permitted. The IPv4 ToS byte or IPv6 traffic class should be set
            to '00' or ‘000000’ respectively.</t>

            <t>The following equation can be used to determine the required
            total number of client IP address.</t>

            <t>Desired total number of client IP = Target throughput [Mbit/s]
            / Throughput per IP address [Mbit/s]</t>

            <t><list style="format (Idea %d)">
                <t>6-7 Mbps per IP (e.g. 1,400-1,700 IPs per 10Gbit/s
                throughput)</t>

                <t>0.1-0.2 Mbps per IP (e.g. 50,000-100,000 IPs per 10Gbit/s
                throughput)</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>Based on deployment and use case scenario, client IP addresses
            SHOULD be distributed between IPv4 and IPv6 type. This document
            recommends using the following ratio(s) between IPv4 and IPv6:</t>

            <t><list style="format (Idea %d)">
                <t>100 % IPv4, no IPv6</t>

                <t>80 % IPv4, 20 % IPv6</t>

                <t>50 % IPv4, 50 % IPv6</t>

                <t>0 % IPv4, 100 % IPv6</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Emulated Web Browser Attributes">
            <t>The emulated web browser contains attributes that will
            materially affect how traffic is loaded. The objective is to
            emulate a modern, typical browser attributes to improve realism of
            the result set.</t>

            <t>For HTTP traffic emulation, the emulated browser MUST negotiate
            HTTP 1.1. HTTP persistency MAY be enabled depending on test
            scenario. The browser MAY open multiple TCP connections per Server
            endpoint IP at any time depending on how many sequential
            transactions are needed to be processed. Within the TCP connection
            multiple transactions MAY be processed if the emulated browser has
            available connections. The browser SHOULD advertise a User-Agent
            header. Headers MUST be sent uncompressed. The browser SHOULD
            enforce content length validation.</t>

            <t>For encrypted traffic, the following attributes shall define
            the negotiated encryption parameters. The tests MUST use TLSv1.2
            or higher with a record size of 16383, commonly used cipher suite
            and key strength. Depending on test scenario, Session reuse or
            ticket resumption MAY be used for subsequent connections to the
            same Server endpoint IP. The client endpoint MUST send TLS
            Extension Server Name Indication (SNI) information when opening a
            security tunnel. Cipher suite and certificate size should be
            defined in the parameter session of each test scenario.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Backend Server Configuration">
          <t>This document specifies which parameters should be considerable
          while configuring emulated backend servers using test equipment.</t>

          <section title="TCP Stack Attributes">
            <t>The TCP stack SHOULD use a TCP Reno variant, which include
            congestion avoidance, back off and windowing, retransmission, and
            recovery on every TCP connection between client and server
            endpoints. The default IPv4 and IPv6 MSS segment size MUST be set
            to 1460 bytes and 1440 bytes respectively and a TX and RX receive
            windows of at least 32768 bytes. Server initial congestion window
            MUST NOT exceed 10 times the MSS. Delayed ACKs are permitted and
            the maximum server delayed Ack MUST NOT exceed 10 times the MSS
            before a forced ACK. Up to 3 retries SHOULD be allowed before a
            timeout event is declared. All traffic MUST set the TCP PSH flag
            to high. The source port range SHOULD be in the range of 1024 -
            65535. Internal timeout should be dynamically scalable per RFC
            793.</t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="Server_IP" title="Server Endpoint IP Addressing">
            <t>The server IP blocks SHOULD consist of unique, discontinuous
            static address blocks with one IP per Server Fully Qualified
            Domain Name (FQDN) endpoint per test port. The IPv4 ToS byte and
            IPv6 traffic class bytes should be set to '00' and ‘000000’
            respectively.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="HTTP / HTTPS Server Pool Endpoint Attributes">
            <t>The server pool for HTTP SHOULD listen on TCP port 80 and
            emulate HTTP version 1.1 with persistence. The server MUST
            advertise a server type. For HTTPS server, TLS 1.2 or higher MUST
            be used with a record size of 16383 bytes and ticket resumption or
            Session ID reuse SHOULD be enabled based on test scenario. The
            server MUST listen on port TCP 443. The server shall serve a
            certificate to the client. It is REQUIRED that the HTTPS server
            also check Host SNI information with the FQDN. Cipher suite and
            certificate size should be defined in the parameter section of
            each test scenario.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Traffic Flow Definition">
          <t>The section describes the traffic pattern between the client and
          server endpoints. At the beginning of the test, the server endpoint
          initializes and will be in a ready to accept connection state
          including initialization of the TCP stack as well as bound HTTP and
          HTTPS servers. When a client endpoint is needed, it will initialize
          and be given attributes such as the MAC and IP address. The behavior
          of the client is to sweep though the given server IP space,
          sequentially generating a recognizable service by the DUT. Thus, a
          balanced, mesh between client endpoints and server endpoints will be
          generated in a client port server port combination. Each client
          endpoint performs the same actions as other endpoints, with the
          difference being the source IP of the client endpoint and the target
          server IP pool. The client shall use Fully Qualified Domain Names
          (FQDN) in Host Headers and for TLS Server Name Indication (SNI).</t>

          <section title=" Description of Intra-Client Behavior">
            <t>Client endpoints are independent of other clients that are
            concurrently executing. When a client endpoint initiates traffic,
            this section describes how the client steps though different
            services. Once initialized, the client should randomly hold
            (perform no operation) for a few milliseconds to allow for better
            randomization of start of client traffic. The client will then
            either open a new TCP connection or connect to a TCP persistence
            stack still open to that specific server. At any point that the
            service profile may require encryption, a TLS encryption tunnel
            will form presenting the URL request to the server. The server
            will then perform an SNI name check with the proposed FQDN
            compared to the domain embedded in the certificate. Only when
            correct, will the server process the HTTPS response object. The
            initial response object to the server MUST NOT have a fixed size;
            its size is based on benchmarking tests described in Section 7.
            Multiple additional sub-URLs (response objects on the service
            page) MAY be requested simultaneously. This may or may not be to
            the same server IP as the initial URL. Each sub-object will also
            use a conical FQDN and URL path, as observed in the traffic mix
            used.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section anchor="Traffic_Load_Profile" title="Traffic Load Profile">
          <t>The loading of traffic is described in this section. The loading
          of a traffic load profile has five distinct phases: Init, ramp up,
          sustain, ramp down, and collection.</t>

          <t>During the Init phase, test bed devices including the client and
          server endpoints should negotiate layer 2-3 connectivity such as MAC
          learning and ARP. Only after successful MAC learning or ARP/ND
          resolution shall the test iteration move to the next phase. No
          measurements are made in this phase. The minimum RECOMMEND time for
          Init phase is 5 seconds. During this phase, the emulated clients
          SHOULD NOT initiate any sessions with the DUT/SUT, in contrast, the
          emulated servers should be ready to accept requests from DUT/SUT or
          from emulated clients.</t>

          <t>In the ramp up phase, the test equipment SHOULD start to generate
          the test traffic. It SHOULD use a set approximate number of unique
          client IP addresses actively to generate traffic. The traffic should
          ramp from zero to desired target objective. The target objective
          will be defined for each benchmarking test. The duration for the
          ramp up phase MUST be configured long enough, so that the test
          equipment does not overwhelm DUT/SUT's supported performance metrics
          namely; connections per second, concurrent TCP connections, and
          application transactions per second. The RECOMMENDED time duration
          for the ramp up phase is 180-300 seconds. No measurements are made
          in this phase.</t>

          <t>In the sustain phase, the test equipment SHOULD continue
          generating traffic to constant target value for a constant number of
          active client IPs. The RECOMMENDED time duration for sustain phase
          is 600 seconds. This is the phase where measurements occur.</t>

          <t>In the ramp down/close phase, no new connections are established,
          and no measurements are made. The time duration for ramp up and ramp
          down phase SHOULD be same. The RECOMMENDED duration of this phase is
          between 180 to 300 seconds.</t>

          <t>The last phase is administrative and will be when the tester
          merges and collates the report data.</t>
        </section>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Test Bed Considerations">
      <t>This section recommends steps to control the test environment and
      test equipment, specifically focusing on virtualized environments and
      virtualized test equipment.</t>

      <t><list style="numbers">
          <t>Ensure that any ancillary switching or routing functions between
          the system under test and the test equipment do not limit the
          performance of the traffic generator. This is specifically important
          for virtualized components (vSwitches, vRouters).</t>

          <t>Verify that the performance of the test equipment matches and
          reasonably exceeds the expected maximum performance of the system
          under test.</t>

          <t>Assert that the test bed characteristics are stable during the
          entire test session. Several factors might influence stability
          specifically for virtualized test beds, for example additional
          workloads in a virtualized system, load balancing and movement of
          virtual machines during the test, or simple issues such as
          additional heat created by high workloads leading to an emergency
          CPU performance reduction.</t>
        </list></t>

      <t>Test bed reference pre-tests help to ensure that the desired traffic
      generator aspects such as maximum throughput and the network performance
      metrics such as maximum latency and maximum packet loss are met.</t>

      <t>Once the desired maximum performance goals for the system under test
      have been identified, a safety margin of 10% SHOULD be added for
      throughput and subtracted for maximum latency and maximum packet
      loss.</t>

      <t>Test bed preparation may be performed either by configuring the DUT
      in the most trivial setup (fast forwarding) or without presence of
      DUT.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Reporting">
      <t>This section describes how the final report should be formatted and
      presented. The final test report MAY have two major sections;
      Introduction and result sections. The following attributes SHOULD be
      present in the introduction section of the test report.</t>

      <t><list style="numbers">
          <t>The name of the NetSecOPEN traffic mix (see Appendix A) MUST be
          prominent.</t>

          <t>The time and date of the execution of the test MUST be
          prominent.</t>

          <t>Summary of testbed software and Hardware details<list
              style="letters">
              <t>DUT Hardware/Virtual Configuration<list style="symbols">
                  <t>This section SHOULD clearly identify the make and model
                  of the DUT</t>

                  <t>The port interfaces, including speed and link information
                  MUST be documented.</t>

                  <t>If the DUT is a virtual VNF, interface acceleration such
                  as DPDK and SR-IOV MUST be documented as well as cores used,
                  RAM used, and the pinning / resource sharing configuration.
                  The Hypervisor and version MUST be documented.</t>

                  <t>Any additional hardware relevant to the DUT such as
                  controllers MUST be documented</t>
                </list></t>

              <t>DUT Software<list style="symbols">
                  <t>The operating system name MUST be documented</t>

                  <t>The version MUST be documented</t>

                  <t>The specific configuration MUST be documented</t>
                </list></t>

              <t>DUT Enabled Features<list style="symbols">
                  <t>Specific features, such as logging, NGFW, DPI MUST be
                  documented</t>

                  <t>Attributes of those featured MUST be documented</t>

                  <t>Any additional relevant information about features MUST
                  be documented</t>
                </list></t>

              <t>Test equipment hardware and software <list style="symbols">
                  <t>Test equipment vendor name</t>

                  <t>Hardware details including model number, interface
                  type</t>

                  <t>Test equipment firmware and test application software
                  version</t>
                </list></t>
            </list></t>

          <t>Results Summary / Executive Summary<list>
              <t>Results should resemble a pyramid in how it is reported, with
              the introduction section documenting the summary of results in a
              prominent, easy to read block.</t>

              <t>In the result section of the test report, the following
              attributes should be present for each test scenario.<list
                  style="letters">
                  <t>KPIs MUST be documented separately for each test
                  scenario. The format of the KPI metrics should be presented
                  as described in <xref
                  target="Key_Performance_Indicators"/>.</t>

                  <t>The next level of details SHOULD be graphs showing each
                  of these metrics over the duration (sustain phase) of the
                  test. This allows the user to see the measured performance
                  stability changes over time.</t>
                </list></t>
            </list></t>
        </list></t>

      <section anchor="Key_Performance_Indicators"
               title=" Key Performance Indicators">
        <t>This section lists KPIs for overall benchmarking tests scenarios.
        All KPIs MUST be measured during the of sustain phase of the traffic
        load profile described in <xref target="Traffic_Load_Profile"/>. All
        KPIs MUST be measured from the result output of test equipment.</t>

        <t><list style="symbols">
            <t>Concurrent TCP Connections<vspace/>This key performance
            indicator measures the average concurrent open TCP connections in
            the sustaining period.</t>

            <t>TCP Connections Per Second<vspace/>This key performance
            indicator measures the average established TCP connections per
            second in the sustaining period. For “TCP/HTTP(S) Connection Per
            Second” benchmarking test scenario, the KPI is measured average
            established and terminated TCP connections per second
            simultaneously.</t>

            <t>Application Transactions Per Second<vspace/>This key
            performance indicator measures the average successfully completed
            application transactions per second in the sustaining period.</t>

            <t>TLS Handshake Rate<vspace/>This key performance indicator
            measures the average TLS 1.2 or higher session formation rate
            within the sustaining period.</t>

            <t>Throughput<vspace/>This key performance indicator measures the
            average Layer 2 throughput within the sustaining period as well as
            average packets per seconds within the same period. The value of
            throughput SHOULD be presented in Gbit/s rounded to two places of
            precision with a more specific kbps in parenthesis. Optionally,
            goodput MAY also be logged as an average goodput rate measured
            over the same period. Goodput result SHALL also be presented in
            the same format as throughput.</t>

            <t>URL Response time / Time to Last Byte (TTLB)<vspace/>This key
            performance indicator measures the minimum, average and maximum
            per URL response time in the sustaining period. The latency is
            measured at Client and in this case would be the time duration
            between sending a GET request from Client and the receival of the
            complete response from the server.</t>

            <t>Application Transaction Latency<vspace/>This key performance
            indicator measures the minimum, average and maximum the amount of
            time to receive all objects from the server. The value of
            application transaction latency SHOULD be presented in millisecond
            rounded to zero decimal.</t>

            <t>Time to First Byte (TTFB)<vspace/>This key performance
            indicator will measure minimum, average and maximum the time to
            first byte. TTFB is the elapsed time between sending the SYN
            packet from the client and receiving the first byte of application
            date from the DUT/SUT. TTFB SHOULD be expressed in
            millisecond.</t>
          </list></t>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Benchmarking" title=" Benchmarking Tests">
      <section anchor="Throughput_Performance_With_NetSecOPEN_Traffic_Mix"
               title="Throughput Performance With NetSecOPEN Traffic Mix">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using NetSecOPEN traffic mix, determine the maximum sustainable
          throughput performance supported by the DUT/SUT. (see Appendix A for
          details about traffic mix)</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup MUST be configured as defined in <xref
          target="Test_Setup"/>. Any test scenario specific test bed
          configuration changes MUST be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            <xref target="DUT-SUT_Configuration"/>. Any configuration changes
            for this specific test scenario MUST be documented.</t>

            <t>This test scenario is RECOMMENDED to perform twice; one with
            SSL inspection feature enabled and the second scenario with SSL
            inspection feature disabled on the DUT/SUT.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in <xref
            target="Test_Equipment_Configuration"/>. Following parameters MUST
            be noted for this test scenario:</t>

            <t><list>
                <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
                target="Client_IP"/></t>

                <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
                target="Server_IP"/></t>

                <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
                <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

                <t>Traffic load objective or specification type (e.g.
                Throughput, SimUsers and etc.)</t>

                <t>Target throughput: It can be defined based on requirements.
                Otherwise it represents aggregated line rate of interface(s)
                used in the DUT/SUT</t>

                <t>Initial throughput: 10% of the "Target throughput"</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="Traffic_Profile" title="Traffic Profile">
            <t>Traffic profile: Test scenario MUST be run with a single
            application traffic mix profile (see Appendix A for details about
            traffic mix). The name of the NetSecOPEN traffic mix MUST be
            documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="Test_Results_Acceptance_Criteria"
                   title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be less than
                0.01% of total attempt transactions</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                TCP connections</t>

                <t>Maximum deviation (max. dev) of application transaction
                time or TTLB (Time To Last Byte) MUST be less than X (The
                value for "X" will be finalized and updated after completion
                of PoC test)<vspace/> The following equation MUST be used to
                calculate the deviation of application transaction latency or
                TTLB<vspace/> max. dev = max((avg_latency -
                min_latency),(max_latency - avg_latency)) / (Initial
                latency)<vspace/> Where, the initial latency is calculated
                using the following equation. For this calculation, the
                latency values (min', avg' and max') MUST be measured during
                test procedure step 1 as defined in <xref
                target="Step1_Test_Initialization"/>. <vspace/> The variable
                latency represents application transaction latency or
                TTLB.<vspace/> Initial latency:= min((avg' latency - min'
                latency) | (max' latency - avg' latency))</t>

                <t>Maximum value of Time to First Byte MUST be less than X</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="Measurement" title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test
            scenario.</t>

            <t>Mandatory KPIs: average Throughput, average Concurrent TCP
            connections, TTLB/application transaction latency (minimum,
            average and maximum) and average application transactions per
            second</t>

            <t>Optional KPIs: average TCP connections per second, average TLS
            handshake rate and TTFB</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and expected Results">
          <t>The test procedures are designed to measure the throughput
          performance of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of traffic load
          profile. The test procedure consists of three major steps.</t>

          <section anchor="Step1_Test_Initialization"
                   title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            generate test traffic at "initial throughput" rate as described in
            the parameters section. The test equipment SHOULD follow the
            traffic load profile definition as described in <xref
            target="Traffic_Load_Profile"/>. The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the
            "initial throughput" during the sustain phase. Measure all KPI as
            defined in Section 7.1.3.5. The measured KPIs during the sustain
            phase MUST meet acceptance criteria "a" and "b" defined in Section
            7.1.3.4.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to step 2.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to generate traffic at "Target
            throughput" rate defined in the parameter table. The test
            equipment SHOULD follow the traffic load profile definition as
            described in <xref target="Traffic_Load_Profile"/>. The test
            equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all specified KPIs.
            The frequency of KPI metric measurements MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target throughput
            during the sustain phase. In addition, the measured KPIs MUST meet
            all acceptance criteria. Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do
            not meet the acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable throughput within
            the acceptance criteria. Final test iteration MUST be performed
            for the test duration defined in Section 4.3.4.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section anchor="HTTP_CPS" title="TCP/HTTP Connections Per Second">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using HTTP traffic, determine the maximum sustainable TCP
          connection establishment rate supported by the DUT/SUT under
          different throughput load conditions.</t>

          <t>To measure connections per second, test iterations MUST use
          different fixed HTTP response object sizes defined in the test
          equipment configuration parameters section 7.2.3.2.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. MUST be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target connections per second: Initial value from product data
            sheet (if known)</t>

            <t>Initial connections per second: 10% of “Target connections per
            second”</t>

            <t>The client SHOULD negotiate HTTP 1.1 and close the connection
            with FIN immediately after completion of one transaction. In each
            test iteration, client MUST send GET command requesting a fixed
            HTTP response object size.</t>

            <t>The RECOMMENDED response object sizes are 1, 2, 4, 16, 64
            KByte</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be less than
                0.01% of total attempt transactions</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                TCP connections</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, traffic should be forwarded at a
                constant rate</t>

                <t>Concurrent TCP connections SHOULD be constant during steady
                state. The deviation of concurrent TCP connections MUST be
                less than 10%. This confirms that DUT open and close the TCP
                connections almost at the same rate</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for each test
            iteration.</t>

            <t>Mandatory KPIs: average TCP connections per second, average
            Throughput and Average Time to First Byte (TTFB).</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the TCP connections per
          second rate of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of traffic load
          profile. The test procedure consists of three major steps. This test
          procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with different IP types;
          IPv4 only, IPv6 only and IPv4 and IPv6 mixed traffic
          distribution.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial connections per second" as defined in the
            parameters section. The traffic load profile SHOULD be defined as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial connections per second"
            before the sustain phase. The measured KPIs during the sustain
            phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria a, b, c, and d defined in
            section 7.3.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target connections per
            second" defined in the parameters table. The test equipment SHOULD
            follow the traffic load profile definition as described in the
            section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase of each test iteration,
            other KPIs such as throughput, concurrent TCP connections and
            application transactions per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum
            value the DUT/SUT can support. The test results for specific test
            iterations SHOULD NOT be reported, if the above mentioned KPI
            (especially throughput) reaches to the maximum value. (Example: If
            the test iteration with 64Kbyte of HTTP response object size
            reached the maximum throughput limitation of the DUT, the test
            iteration MAY be interrupted and the result for 64kbyte SHOULD NOT
            be reported).</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target connections
            per second rate at the sustain phase. In addition, the measured
            KPIs MUST meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable connections per
            second within the acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="HTTP Transaction per Second">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using HTTP 1.1 traffic, determine the maximum sustainable HTTP
          transactions per second supported by the DUT/SUT under different
          throughput load conditions.</t>

          <t>To measure transactions per second performance under a variety of
          DUT Security inspection load conditions, each test iteration MUST
          use different fixed HTTP response object sizes defined in the test
          equipment configuration parameters section 7.3.3.2.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. MUST be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target Transactions per second: Initial value from product data
            sheet (if known)</t>

            <t>Initial Transactions per second: 10% of “Target Transactions
            per second”</t>

            <t>Test scenario SHOULD be run with a single traffic profile with
            following attributes:</t>

            <t>The client MUST negotiate HTTP 1.1 and close the connections
            with FIN immediately after completion of 10 transactions. In each
            test iteration, client MUST send GET command requesting a fixed
            HTTP response object size. The RECOMMENDED object sizes are 1, 16
            and 64 KByte</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transactions MUST be zero</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated HTTP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                HTTP sessions</t>

                <t>Traffic should be forwarded at a constant rate</t>

                <t>Average Time to TCP First Byte MUST be constant and not
                increase more than 10%</t>

                <t>The deviation of concurrent TCP connection Must be less
                than 10%</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test
            scenario.</t>

            <t>average TCP Connections per second, average Throughput, Average
            Time to TCP First Byte and average application transaction
            latency.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the HTTP transactions
          per second of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of traffic load
          profile. The test procedure consists of three major steps. This test
          procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with different IP types;
          IPv4 only, IPv6 only and IPv4 and IPv6 mixed traffic
          distribution.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial HTTP transactions per second" as defined in the
            parameters section. The traffic load profile CAN be defined as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial HTTP transactions per
            second" before the sustain phase. The measured KPIs during the
            sustain phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria a, b, c, and d
            defined in section 7.3.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target HTTP transactions
            per second" defined in the parameters table. The test equipment
            SHOULD follow the traffic load profile definition as described in
            the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase of each test iteration,
            other KPIs such as throughput, concurrent TCP connections and
            connection per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value the
            DUT/SUT can support. The test results for specific test iterations
            SHOULD NOT be reported, if the above mentioned KPI (especially
            throughput) reaches to the maximum value. (Example: If the test
            iteration with 64Kbyte of HTTP response object size reached the
            maximum throughput limitation of the DUT, the test iteration MAY
            be interrupted and the result for 64kbyte SHOULD NOT be
            reported).</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target HTTP
            transactions per second at the sustain phase. In addition, the
            measured KPIs MUST meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable HTTP transactions
            per second within the acceptance criteria. Final test iteration
            MUST be performed for the test duration defined in Section
            4.3.4.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="TCP/HTTP Transaction Latency">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using HTTP traffic, determine the average HTTP transaction
          latency when DUT is running with sustainable HTTP transactions per
          second supported by the DUT/SUT under different HTTP response object
          sizes.</t>

          <t>Test iterations MUST be performed with different HTTP response
          object sizes twice, one with a single transaction and the other with
          multiple transactions within a single TCP connection. For
          consistency both single and multiple transaction test needs to be
          configured with HTTP 1.1.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. MUST be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target connections per second:50% of the value measured in test
            scenario <xref format="default" target="HTTP_CPS">TCP/HTTP
            Connections Per Second</xref></t>

            <t>Initial connections per second: 10% of “Target connections per
            second”</t>

            <t>HTTP transaction per TCP connection: one test scenario with
            single transaction and another scenario with 10 transactions</t>

            <t>Test scenario SHOULD be run with a single traffic profile with
            following attributes:</t>

            <t>To measure application transaction latency with a single
            connection per transaction and a single connection with multiple
            transactions the tests should run twice:</t>

            <t>1st test run: The client MUST negotiate HTTP 1.1 and close the
            connection with FIN immediately after completion of the
            transaction.</t>

            <t>2nd test run: The client MUST negotiate HTTP 1.1 and close the
            connection after 10 transactions (GET and RESPONSE) within a
            single TCP connection.</t>

            <t>HTTP 1.1 with GET command requesting a single 1, 16 or 64 Kbyte
            objects. For each test iteration, client MUST request a single
            HTTP response object size.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile. Ramp up and ramp down phase SHOULD NOT be considered.</t>

            <t>Generica criteria:<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be zero.</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connection due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be zero.</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, traffic should be forwarded at a
                constant rate.</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, Average connect time and average
                transaction time MUST be constant and latency deviation SHOULD
                not increase more than 10%.</t>

                <t>Concurrent TCP connections should be constant during steady
                state. This confirms the DUT opens and closes TCP connections
                at the same rate.</t>

                <t>After ramp up the DUT MUST achieve the target connections
                per second objective defined in the parameter section 7.4.3.2
                and it remains in that state for the entire test duration
                (sustain phase).</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for each test scenario
            and HTTP response object sizes separately:</t>

            <t>average TCP connections per second and average application
            transaction latency needs to be recorded.</t>

            <t>All KPI's are measured once the target connections per second
            achieves the steady state.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the average application
          transaction latencies or TTLB when the DUT is operating close to 50%
          of its maximum achievable connections per second. , This test
          procedure CAN be repeated multiple times with different IP types
          (IPv4 only, IPv6 only and IPv4 and IPv6 mixed traffic distribution),
          HTTP response object sizes and single and multiple transactions per
          connection scenarios.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial connections per second" as defined in the
            parameters section. The traffic load profile CAN be defined as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial connections per second"
            before the sustain phase. The measured KPIs during the sustain
            phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria a, b, c, d ,e and f
            defined in section 7.4.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target connections per
            second" defined in the parameters table. The test equipment SHOULD
            follow the traffic load profile definition as described in the
            section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase, other KPIs such as
            throughput, concurrent TCP connections and application
            transactions per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value that
            DUT/SUT can support. The test results for specific test iterations
            SHOULD NOT be reported, if the above mentioned KPI (especially
            throughput) reaches to the maximum value. (Example: If the test
            iteration with 64Kbyte of HTTP response object size reached the
            maximum throughput limitation of the DUT, the test iteration MAY
            be interrupted and the result for 64kbyte SHOULD NOT be
            reported).</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed. DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target
            connections per second rate at the sustain phase. In addition, the
            measured KPIs must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum achievable connections per second within
            the acceptance criteria and measure the latency values.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section anchor="HTTP_TP" title="HTTP Throughput">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Determine the throughput for HTTP transactions varying the HTTP
          response object size.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target Throughput: Initial value from product data sheet (if
            known)</t>

            <t>Number of HTTP response object requests (transactions) per
            connection: 10</t>

            <t>HTTP response object size: 16KB, 64KB, 256KB and mixed objects
            defined in the table</t>

            <figure title="Table 3: Mixed Objects">
              <artwork>+---------------------+---------------------+
| Object size (KByte) | Number of requests/ |
|                     | Weight              |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 0.2                 | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 6                   | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 8                   | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 9                   | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 10                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 25                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 26                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 35                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 59                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 347                 | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+</artwork>
            </figure>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be less than
                0.01% of attempt transaction.</t>

                <t>Traffic should be forwarded constantly.</t>

                <t>The deviation of concurrent TCP connection Must be less
                than 10%</t>

                <t>The deviation of average HTTP transaction latency MUST be
                less than 10%</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>The KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Average Throughput, concurrent connections, and average TCP
            connections per second.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure HTTP throughput of the
          DUT/ SUT. The test procedure consists of three major steps. This
          test procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with different IPv4
          and IPv6 traffic distribution and HTTP response object sizes.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial throughput" as defined in the parameters
            section.</t>

            <t>The traffic load profile SHOULD be defined as described in
            Section 4.3.4. The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial throughput"
            during the sustain phase. Measure all KPI as defined in Section
            7.5.3.4.</t>

            <t>The measured KPIs during the sustain phase MUST meet the
            acceptance criteria "a" defined in Section 7.5.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target throughput
            at the sustain phase. In addition, the measured KPIs must meet all
            acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Perform the test separately for each HTTP response object size
            (16k, 64k, 256k and mixed HTTP response objects).</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable throughput within
            the acceptance criteria. Final test iteration MUST be performed
            for the test duration defined in Section 4.3.4.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="Concurrent TCP/HTTP Connection Capacity">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Determine the maximum number of concurrent TCP connections that
          DUT/ SUT sustains when using HTTP traffic.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in Section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section anchor="CC_parameter" title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            Section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in Section 4.3. Following parameters MUST be
            noted for this test scenario:</t>

            <t><list>
                <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
                target="Client_IP"/></t>

                <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
                target="Server_IP"/></t>

                <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
                <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

                <t>Target concurrent connection: Initial value from product
                data sheet (if known)</t>

                <t>Initial concurrent connection: 10% of “Target concurrent
                connection”</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>The client must negotiate HTTP 1.1 with persistence and each
            client MAY open multiple concurrent TCP connections per server
            endpoint IP.</t>

            <t>Each client sends 10 GET commands requesting 1Kbyte HTTP
            response object in the same TCP connection (10 transactions/TCP
            connection) and the delay (think time) between the transaction
            MUST be X seconds. The value for think time (X) MUST be defined to
            achieve 15% of maximum throughput measured in test scenario
            7.5.</t>

            <t>The established connections SHOULD remain open until the ramp
            down phase of the test. During the ramp down phase, all
            connections should be successfully closed with FIN.</t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="CC_Test_Results_Acceptance_Criteria"
                   title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be zero</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                TCP connections</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, traffic should be forwarded
                constantly at the rate defined in the parameter section
                7.6.3.2</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, the maximum deviation (max. dev)
                of application transaction latency or TTLB (Time To Last Byte)
                MUST be less than 10%</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="CC_Measurement" title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test
            scenario:</t>

            <t>average Throughput, max. Min. Avg. Concurrent TCP connections,
            TTLB/ application transaction latency (minimum, average and
            maximum) and average application transactions per second.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the concurrent TCP
          connection capacity of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of
          traffic load profile. The test procedure consists of three major
          steps. This test procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with
          different IPv4 and IPv6 traffic distribution.</t>

          <section anchor="CC_Step1_Test_Initialization"
                   title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure test equipment to generate background traffic ad
            defined in section 7.6.3.2. Measure throughput, concurrent TCP
            connections, and TCP connections per second.</t>

            <t>While generating the background traffic, configure another
            traffic profile on the test equipment to establish “initial
            concurrent TCP connections" defined in the section 7.6.3.2. The
            traffic load profile CAN be defined as described in the section
            Error: Reference source not found.</t>

            <t>During the sustain phase, the DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the “initial
            concurrent TCP connections” plus concurrent TCP connections
            measured in background traffic. The measured KPIs during the
            sustain phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria “a” and “b”
            defined in the section Error: Reference source not found</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to “Step 2”.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target concurrent TCP
            connections" defined in the parameters table. The test equipment
            SHOULD follow the traffic load profile definition as described in
            <xref target="Traffic_Load_Profile"/>.</t>

            <t>Configure test equipment to establish “Target concurrent TCP
            connections” minus concurrent TCP connections measured in
            background traffic. The test equipment SHOULD follow the traffic
            load profile definition as described in the section Error:
            Reference source not found.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase, the other KPIs such as
            throughput, TCP connections per second and application
            transactions per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value that
            the DUT/SUT can support.</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record KPIs
            defined in section 7.6.3.4. The frequency of measurement MUST be
            less than 5 seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile
            phases are completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target concurrent
            connection at the sustain phase. In addition, the measured KPIs
            must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable concurrent TCP
            connections capacity within the acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section anchor="HTTPS_CPS" title="TCP/HTTPS Connections per second">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using HTTPS traffic, determine the maximum sustainable SSL/TLS
          session establishment rate supported by the DUT/SUT under different
          throughput load conditions.</t>

          <t>Test iterations MUST include common cipher suites and key
          strengths as well as forward looking stronger keys. Specific test
          iterations MUST include ciphers and keys defined in the parameter
          section 7.7.3.2</t>

          <t>For each cipher suite and key strengths, test iterations MUST use
          a single HTTPS response object size defined in the test equipment
          configuration parameters section 7.7.3.2 to measure connections per
          second performance under a variety of DUT Security inspection load
          conditions.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target connections per second: Initial value from product data
            sheet (if known)</t>

            <t>Initial connections per second: 10% of “Target connections per
            second”</t>

            <t>Ciphers and keys:<list style="numbers">
                <t>ECHDE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 with Prime256v1 (Signature
                Hash Algorithmn: ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256 and Supported group:
                sepc256r1)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 with RSA 2048 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: rsa_pkscs1_sha256 and Supported group:
                sepc256)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with Secp521 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: ecdsa_secp256r1_sha384 and Supported group:
                sepc521r1)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with RSA 4096 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: rsa_pkcs1_sha384 and Supported group: secp256)</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>The client MUST negotiate HTTPS 1.1 and close the connection
            with FIN immediately after completion of one transaction. In each
            test iteration, client MUST send GET command requesting a fixed
            HTTPS response object size. The RECOMMENDED object sizes are 1, 2,
            4, 16, 64 Kbyte.</t>

            <t>Each client connection MUST perform a full handshake with
            server certificate (no Certificate on client side) and MUST NOT
            use session reuse or resumption. TLS record size MAY be optimized
            for the HTTPS response object size up to a record size of 16K.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria:<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be less than
                0.01% of attempt transactions</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                TCP connections</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, traffic should be forwarded at a
                constant rate</t>

                <t>Concurrent TCP connections SHOULD be constant during steady
                state. This confirms that DUT open and close the TCP
                connections at the same rate</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test
            scenario:</t>

            <t>Mandatory KPIs: average TCP connections per second, average
            Throughput and Average Time to TCP First Byte.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the TCP connections per
          second rate of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of traffic load
          profile. The test procedure consists of three major steps. This test
          procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with different IPv4 and
          IPv6 traffic distribution.</t>

          <section anchor="TLS_Handshake_Step1_Test_Initialization"
                   title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial connections per second" as defined in the
            parameters section. The traffic load profile CAN be defined as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial connections per second"
            before the sustain phase. The measured KPIs during the sustain
            phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria a, b, c, and d defined in
            section 7.7.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target connections per
            second" defined in the parameters table. The test equipment SHOULD
            follow the traffic load profile definition as described in the
            section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase, other KPIs such as
            throughput, concurrent TCP connections and application
            transactions per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value the
            DUT/SUT can support. The test results for specific test iteration
            SHOULD NOT be reported, if the above mentioned KPI (especially
            throughput) reaches to the maximum value. (Example: If the test
            iteration with 64Kbyte of HTTPS response object size reached the
            maximum throughput limitation of the DUT, the test iteration can
            be interrupted and the result for 64kbyte SHOULD NOT be
            reported).</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target connections
            per second rate at the sustain phase. In addition, the measured
            KPIs must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable connections per
            second within the acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="HTTPS Transaction per Second">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using HTTPS traffic, determine the maximum sustainable HTTPS
          transactions per second supported by the DUT/SUT under different
          throughput load conditions.</t>

          <t>To measure transactions per second performance under a variety of
          DUT Security inspection load conditions, each test iteration MUST
          use different fixed HTTPS transaction object sizes defined in the
          test equipment configuration parameters section 7.8.3.2.</t>

          <t>Test iterations MUST include common cipher suites and key
          strengths as well as forward looking stronger keys. Specific test
          iterations MUST include the ciphers and keys defined in the
          parameter section 7.8.3.2.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target Transactions per second: Initial value from product data
            sheet (if known)</t>

            <t>Initial Transactions per second: 10% of “Target Transactions
            per second”</t>

            <t>Ciphers and keys:<list style="numbers">
                <t>ECHDE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 with Prime256v1 (Signature
                Hash Algorithmn: ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256 and Supported group:
                sepc256r1)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 with RSA 2048 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: rsa_pkscs1_sha256 and Supported group:
                sepc256)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with Secp521 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: ecdsa_secp256r1_sha384 and Supported group:
                sepc521r1)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with RSA 4096 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: rsa_pkcs1_sha384 and Supported group: secp256)</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>The client MUST negotiate HTTPS 1.1 and close the connection
            with FIN immediately after completion of 10 transactions.</t>

            <t>HTTPS 1.1 with GET command requesting a single 1, 16 and 64
            KByte objects.</t>

            <t>Each client connection MUST perform a full handshake with
            server certificate and SHOULD NOT use session reuse or
            resumption.</t>

            <t>TLS record size MAY be optimized for the object size up to a
            record size of 16K.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile. Ramp up and ramp down phase SHOULD NOT be
            considered.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transactions MUST be zero</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated HTTP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                HTTP sessions</t>

                <t>Average Time to TCP First Byte MUST be constant and not
                increase more than 10%</t>

                <t>The deviation of concurrent TCP connection Must be less
                than 10%</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test
            scenario.</t>

            <t>average TCP connections per second, average Throughput, Average
            Time to TCP First Byte and average application transaction
            latency.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the HTTPS transactions
          per second rate of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of traffic
          load profile. The test procedure consists of three major steps. This
          test procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with different IPv4
          and IPv6 traffic distribution, HTTPS response object sizes and
          ciphers and keys.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial HTTPS transactions per second" as defined in
            the parameters section. The traffic load profile CAN be defined as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial HTTPS transactions per
            second" before the sustain phase. The measured KPIs during the
            sustain phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria a, b, c, and d
            defined in section 7.8.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target HTTPS
            transactions per second" defined in the parameters table. The test
            equipment SHOULD follow the traffic load profile definition as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase of each test iteration,
            other KPIs such as throughput, concurrent TCP connections and
            connections per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value the
            DUT/SUT can support. The test results for specific test iterations
            SHOULD NOT be reported, if the above mentioned KPI (especially
            throughput) reaches to the maximum value. (Example: If the test
            iteration with 64Kbyte of HTTP response object size reached the
            maximum throughput limitation of the DUT, the test iteration MAY
            be interrupted and the result for 64kbyte SHOULD NOT be
            reported).</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target HTTPS
            transactions per second rate at the sustain phase. In addition,
            the measured KPIs must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable HTTPS transactions
            per second within the acceptance criteria. Final test iteration
            MUST be performed for the test duration defined in Section
            4.3.4.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="HTTPS Transaction Latency">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Using HTTPS traffic, determine the average HTTPS transaction
          latency when DUT is running with sustainable HTTPS transactions per
          second supported by the DUT/SUT under different HTTPS response
          object size.</t>

          <t>Test iterations MUST be performed with different HTTPS response
          object sizes twice, one with a single transaction and the other with
          multiple transactions within a single TCP connection.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Cipher suites and key size: ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with
            Secp521 bits key size (Signature Hash Algorithmn:
            ecdsa_secp256r1_sha384 and Supported group: sepc521r1)</t>

            <t>Target connections per second:50% of the value measured in test
            scenario <xref target="HTTPS_CPS">TCP/HTTPS Connections per
            second</xref></t>

            <t>Initial Transactions per second: 10% of “Target Transactions
            per second”</t>

            <t>HTTPS transaction per connection: one test scenario with a
            single transaction and another scenario with 10 transactions</t>

            <t>Test scenario SHOULD be run with a single traffic profile with
            following attributes:</t>

            <t>To measure application transaction latency with a single
            connection per transaction and single connection with multiple
            transactions the tests should run twice:</t>

            <t>1st test run: The client MUST negotiate HTTPS 1.1 and close the
            connection with FIN immediately after completion of the
            transaction.</t>

            <t>2nd test run: The client MUST negotiate HTTPS 1.1 and close the
            connection after 10 transactions (GET and RESPONSE) within a
            single TCP connection.</t>

            <t>HTTPS 1.1 with GET command requesting a single 1, 16 or 64
            Kbyte objects. For each test iteration, client MUST request a
            single HTTPS response object size.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile. Ramp up and ramp down phase SHOULD NOT be considered.</t>

            <t>Generic creteria:<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transactions MUST be zero</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be zero.</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, traffic should be forwarded at a
                constant rate.</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase and average application
                transaction latency MUST be constant and latency deviation
                SHOULD NOT increase more than 10%.</t>

                <t>Concurrent TCP connections SHOULD be constant during steady
                state. This confirms the DUT opens and closes the TCP
                connections at the same rate.</t>

                <t>After ramp up the DUT MUST achieve the target connections
                per second objective defined in the parameter section and
                remain in that state for the entire duration of the sustain
                phase.</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for each test scenario
            and HTTPS response object sizes separately:</t>

            <t>average TCP connections per second and average application
            transaction latency or TTLB needs to be recorded.</t>

            <t>All KPI's are measured once the target connections per second
            achieves the steady state.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure average application
          transaction latency or TTLB when the DUT is operating close to 50%
          of its maximum achievable connections per second. , This test
          procedure CAN be repeated multiple times with different IP types
          (IPv4 only, IPv6 only and IPv4 and IPv6 mixed traffic distribution),
          HTTPS response object sizes and single and multiple transactions per
          connection scenarios.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial connections per second" as defined in the
            parameters section. The traffic load profile CAN be defined as
            described in the section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial connections per second"
            before the sustain phase. The measured KPIs during the sustain
            phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria a, b, c, d ,e and f
            defined in section 7.4.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish "Target connections per
            second" defined in the parameters table. The test equipment SHOULD
            follow the traffic load profile definition as described in the
            section 4.3.4.</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase, other KPIs such as
            throughput, concurrent TCP connections and application
            transactions per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value the
            DUT/SUT can support.</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed. DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target
            connections per second rate at the sustain phase. In addition, the
            measured KPIs must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target HTTPS
            transactions per second rate at the sustain phase. In addition,
            the measured KPIs must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum achievable connections per second within
            the acceptance criteria and measure the latency values.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section anchor="HTTPS_TP" title="HTTPS Throughput">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Determine the throughput for HTTPS transactions varying the HTTPS
          response object size.</t>

          <t>Test iterations MUST include common cipher suites and key
          strengths as well as forward looking stronger keys. Specific test
          iterations MUST include the ciphers and keys defined in the
          parameter section 7.10.3.2.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section 4.3. Following parameters MUST
            be documented for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
            target="Server_IP"/></t>

            <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
            <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

            <t>Target Throughput: Initial value from product data sheet (if
            known)</t>

            <t>Number of HTPPS response object requests (transactions) per
            connection: 10</t>

            <t>Ciphers and keys:<list style="numbers">
                <t>ECHDE-ECDSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 with Prime256v1 (Signature
                Hash Algorithmn: ecdsa_secp256r1_sha256 and Supported group:
                sepc256r1)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 with RSA 2048 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: rsa_pkscs1_sha256 and Supported group:
                sepc256)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with Secp521 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: ecdsa_secp256r1_sha384 and Supported group:
                sepc521r1)</t>

                <t>ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 with RSA 4096 (Signature Hash
                Algorithmn: rsa_pkcs1_sha384 and Supported group: secp256)</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>HTTPS response object size: 16KB, 64KB, 256KB and mixed object
            defined in the table below.</t>

            <figure title="Table 4: Mixed Objects">
              <artwork>+---------------------+---------------------+
| Object size (KByte) | Number of requests/ |
|                     | Weight              |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 0.2                 | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 6                   | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 8                   | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 9                   | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 10                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 25                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 26                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 35                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 59                  | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+
| 347                 | 1                   |
+---------------------+---------------------+</artwork>
            </figure>

            <t>Each client connection MUST perform a full handshake with
            server certificate (no Certificate on client side) and 50% of
            connection SHOULD use session reuse or resumption.</t>

            <t>TLS record size MAY be optimized for the HTTPS response object
            size up to a record size of 16K.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transaction MUST be less than
                0.01% of attempt transaction.</t>

                <t>Traffic should be forwarded constantly.</t>

                <t>The deviation of concurrent TCP connection Must be less
                than 10%</t>

                <t>The deviation of average application transaction latency
                MUST be less than 10%</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section title="Measurement">
            <t>The KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test scenario:</t>

            <t>Average Throughput, concurrent connections, and average TCP
            connections per second.</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and Expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure consists of three major steps. This test
          procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with different IPv4 and
          IPv6 traffic distribution and HTTPS response object sizes.</t>

          <section title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be "UP" status.</t>

            <t>Configure traffic load profile of the test equipment to
            establish "initial throughput" as defined in the parameters
            section.</t>

            <t>The traffic load profile should be defined as described in
            Section 4.3.4. The DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the "initial throughput"
            during the sustain phase. Measure all KPI as defined in Section
            7.10.3.4.</t>

            <t>The measured KPIs during the sustain phase MUST meet the
            acceptance criteria "a" defined in Section 7.10.3.3.</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to "Step 2".</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record all
            specified KPIs. The frequency of measurement MUST be less than 5
            seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile phases are
            completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target throughput
            at the sustain phase. In addition, the measured KPIs must meet all
            acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Perform the test separately for each HTTPS response object size
            (16k, 64k, 256k and mixed HTTPS response objects).</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable throughput within
            the acceptance criteria. Final test iteration MUST be performed
            for the test duration defined in Section 4.3.4.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>

      <section title="Concurrent TCP/HTTPS Connection Capacity">
        <section title="Objective">
          <t>Determine the maximum number of concurrent TCP connections that
          DUT/SUT sustains when using HTTPS traffic.</t>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Setup">
          <t>Test bed setup SHOULD be configured as defined in section 4. Any
          specific test bed configuration changes such as number of interfaces
          and interface type, etc. must be documented.</t>
        </section>

        <section anchor="HTTPS_CC_parameter" title="Test Parameters">
          <t>In this section, test scenario specific parameters SHOULD be
          defined.</t>

          <section title="DUT/SUT Configuration Parameters">
            <t>DUT/SUT parameters MUST conform to the requirements defined in
            the section 4.2. Any configuration changes for this specific test
            scenario MUST be documented.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Test Equipment Configuration Parameters">
            <t>Test equipment configuration parameters MUST conform to the
            requirements defined in the section Error: Reference source not
            found. Following parameters MUST be documented for this test
            scenario:</t>

            <t><list>
                <t>Client IP address range defined in <xref
                target="Client_IP"/></t>

                <t>Server IP address range defined in <xref
                target="Server_IP"/></t>

                <t>Traffic distribution ratio between IPv4 and IPv6 defined in
                <xref target="Client_IP"/></t>

                <t>Cipher suites and key size: ECDHE-ECDSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384
                with Secp521 bits key size (Signature Hash Algorithmn:
                ecdsa_secp256r1_sha384 and Supported group: sepc521r1)</t>

                <t>Target concurrent connection: Initial value from product
                data sheet (if known)</t>

                <t>Initial concurrent connection: 10% of “Target concurrent
                connection”</t>

                <t>Maximum connections per second during ramp up phase: 50% of
                maximum connections per second measured in test scenario <xref
                target="HTTPS_CPS">TCP/HTTPS Connections per second</xref></t>

                <t>Throughput for background traffic: 10% of maximum
                throughput measured in test scenario <xref
                target="HTTPS_TP">HTTPS Throughput</xref>7.10 using an HTTPS
                response object size of 16Kbyte with a matching cipher and key
                size to what is being tested in this test</t>
              </list></t>

            <t>The client must perform HTTPS transaction with persistence and
            each client can open multiple concurrent TCP connections per
            server endpoint IP.</t>

            <t>Each client sends 10 times of GET commands requesting 1Kbyte
            HTTPS response object in the same TCP connections (10
            transactions/TCP connection) and the delay (think time) between
            the transaction MUST be X seconds. The value for think time (X)
            MUST be defined to achieve 15% of maximum throughput measured in
            test scenario 7.10.</t>

            <t>The established connections (except background traffic
            connection) SHOULD remain open until the end phase of the test.
            During the ramp down phase, all connections should be successfully
            closed with FIN.</t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="HTTPS_CC_Test_Results_Acceptance_Criteria"
                   title="Test Results Acceptance Criteria">
            <t>The following test Criteria is defined as test results
            acceptance criteria. Test results acceptance criteria MUST be
            monitored during the whole sustain phase of the traffic load
            profile.<list style="letters">
                <t>Number of failed Application transactions MUST be zero.</t>

                <t>Number of Terminated TCP connections due to unexpected TCP
                RST sent by DUT/SUT MUST be less than 0.01% of total initiated
                TCP connections</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, traffic should be forwarded
                constantly at the rate defined in the parameter section
                7.11.3.2</t>

                <t>During the sustain phase, then maximum deviation (max. dev)
                of application transaction latency or TTLB (Time To Last Byte)
                MUST be less than 10%</t>
              </list></t>
          </section>

          <section anchor="HTTPS_CC_Measurement" title="Measurement">
            <t>Following KPI metrics MUST be reported for this test
            scenario:</t>

            <t>Average Throughput, max. Min. Avg. Concurrent TCP connections,
            TTLB/application transaction latency and average application
            transactions per second</t>
          </section>
        </section>

        <section title="Test Procedures and expected Results">
          <t>The test procedure is designed to measure the concurrent TCP
          connection capacity of the DUT/SUT at the sustaining period of
          traffic load profile. The test procedure consists of three major
          steps. This test procedure MAY be repeated multiple times with
          different IPv4 and IPv6 traffic distribution.</t>

          <section anchor="HTTPS_CC_Step1_Test_Initialization"
                   title="Step 1: Test Initialization and Qualification">
            <t>Verify the link status of the all connected physical
            interfaces. All interfaces are expected to be “UP” status.</t>

            <t>Configure test equipment to generate background traffic ad
            defined in section 7.3.11.2. Measure throughput, concurrent TCP
            connections, and connections per second.</t>

            <t>While generating the background traffic, configure another
            traffic profile on the test equipment to establish “initial
            concurrent TCP connections" defined in the section 7.11.3.2. The
            traffic load profile CAN be defined as described in the section
            Error: Reference source not found</t>

            <t>During the sustain phase, the DUT/SUT SHOULD reach the “initial
            concurrent TCP connections” plus concurrent TCP connections
            measured in background traffic. The measured KPIs during the
            sustain phase MUST meet the acceptance criteria “a” and “b”
            defined in the section Error: Reference source not found</t>

            <t>If the KPI metrics do not meet the acceptance criteria, the
            test procedure MUST NOT be continued to “Step 2”.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 2: Test Run with Target Objective">
            <t>Configure test equipment to establish “Target concurrent TCP
            connections” minus concurrent TCP connections measured in
            background traffic. The test equipment SHOULD follow the traffic
            load profile definition as described in the section 4.3.4</t>

            <t>During the ramp up and sustain phase, the other KPIs such as
            throughput, TCP connections per second and application
            transactions per second MUST NOT reach to the maximum value that
            the DUT/SUT can support.</t>

            <t>The test equipment SHOULD start to measure and record KPIs
            defined in section 7.11.3.4. The frequency of measurement MUST be
            less than 5 seconds. Continue the test until all traffic profile
            phases are completed.</t>

            <t>The DUT/SUT is expected to reach the desired target concurrent
            TCP connections at the sustain phase. In addition, the measured
            KPIs must meet all acceptance criteria.</t>

            <t>Follow the step 3, if the KPI metrics do not meet the
            acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>

          <section title="Step 3: Test Iteration">
            <t>Determine the maximum and average achievable concurrent TCP
            connections within the acceptance criteria.</t>
          </section>
        </section>
      </section>
    </section>

    <section title="Formal Syntax"/>

    <section anchor="IANA" title="IANA Considerations">
      <t>This document makes no request of IANA.</t>

      <t>Note to RFC Editor: this section may be removed on publication as an
      RFC.</t>
    </section>

    <section anchor="Acknowledgements" title="Acknowledgements">
      <t>Acknowledgements will be added in the future release.</t>
    </section>

    <section title="Contributors">
      <t>The authors would like to thank the many people that contributed
      their time and knowledge to this effort.</t>

      <t>Specifically to the co-chairs of the NetSecOPEN Test Methodology
      working group and the NetSecOPEN Security Effectiveness working group -
      Alex Samonte, Aria Eslambolchizadeh, Carsten Rossenhoevel and David
      DeSanto.</t>

      <t>Additionally the following people provided input, comments and spent
      time reviewiing the myriad of drafts. If we have missed anyone the fault
      is entirely our own. Thanks to - Amritam Putatunda, Balamuhunthan
      Balarajah, Brian Monkman, Chris Chapman, Chris Pearson, Chuck McAuley,
      David White, Jurrie Van Den Breekel, Michelle Rhines, Rob Andrews,
      Samaresh Nair, and Tim Winters.</t>
    </section>
  </middle>

  <back>
    <references title="Normative References">
      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.2119"?>
    </references>

    <references title="Informative References">
      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.2647"?>

      <?rfc include="reference.RFC.3511"?>
    </references>

    <section title="NetSecOPEN Basic Traffic Mix">
      <t>A traffic mix for testing performance of next generation firewalls
      MUST scale to stress the DUT based on real-world conditions. In order to
      achieve this the following MUST be included: <list style="symbols">
          <t>Clients connecting to multiple different server FQDNs per
          application<vspace/></t>

          <t>Clients loading apps and pages with connections and objects in
          specific orders<vspace/></t>

          <t>Multiple unique certificates for HTTPS/TLS<vspace/></t>

          <t>A wide variety of different object sizes<vspace/></t>

          <t>Different URL paths<vspace/></t>

          <t>Mix of HTTP and HTTPS<vspace/></t>
        </list></t>

      <t>A traffic mix for testing performance of next generation firewalls
      MUST also facility application identification using different detection
      methods with and without decryption of the traffic. Such as: <list
          style="symbols">
          <t>HTTP HOST based application detection<vspace/></t>

          <t>HTTPS/TLS Server Name Indication (SNI)<vspace/></t>

          <t>Certificate Subject Common Name (CN)<vspace/></t>
        </list></t>

      <t>The mix MUST be of sufficient complexity and volume to render
      differences in individual apps as statistically insignificant. For
      example, changes in like to like apps – such as one type of video
      service vs. another both consist of larger objects whereas one news site
      vs. another both typically have more connections then other apps because
      of trackers and embedded advertising content. To achieve sufficient
      complexity, a mix MUST have: <list style="symbols">
          <t>Thousands of URLs each client walks thru<vspace/></t>

          <t>Hundreds of FQDNs each client connects to<vspace/></t>

          <t>Hundreds of unique certificates for HTTPS/TLS<vspace/></t>

          <t>Thousands of different object sizes per client in orders matching
          applications<vspace/></t>
        </list></t>

      <t>The following is a description of what a popular application in an
      enterprise traffic mix contains.</t>

      <t>Table 5 lists the FQDNs, number of transactions and bytes transferred
      as an example client interacts with Office 365 Outlook, Word, Excel,
      Powerpoint, Sharepoint and Skype. <vspace/></t>

      <figure title="Table 5: Office365">
        <artwork>+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| Office365 FQDN                  | Bytes      | Transaction |
+============================================================+
| r1.res.office365.com            | 14,056,960 | 192         |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | 6,731,019  | 22          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| company1-my.sharepoint.com      | 6,269,492  | 42          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| swx.cdn.skype.com               | 6,100,027  | 12          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| static.sharepointonline.com     | 6,036,947  | 41          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| spoprod-a.akamaihd.net          | 3,904,250  | 25          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| s1-excel-15.cdn.office.net      | 2,767,941  | 16          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| outlook.office365.com           | 2,047,301  | 86          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| shellprod.msocdn.com            | 1,008,370  | 11          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| word-edit.officeapps.live.com   | 932,080    | 25          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| res.delve.office.com            | 760,146    | 2           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| s1-powerpoint-15.cdn.office.net | 557,604    | 3           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| appsforoffice.microsoft.com     | 511,171    | 5           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| powerpoint.officeapps.live.com  | 471,625    | 14          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| excel.officeapps.live.com       | 342,040    | 14          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| s1-officeapps-15.cdn.office.net | 331,343    | 5           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| webdir0a.online.lync.com        | 66,930     | 15          |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| portal.office.com               | 13,956     | 1           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| config.edge.skype.com           | 6,911      | 2           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| clientlog.portal.office.com     | 6,608      | 8           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| webdir.online.lync.com          | 4,343      | 5           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| graph.microsoft.com             | 2,289      | 2           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| nam.loki.delve.office.com       | 1,812      | 5           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| login.microsoftonline.com       | 464        | 2           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+
| login.windows.net               | 232        | 1           |
+---------------------------------+------------+-------------+</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>Clients MUST connect to multiple server FQDNs in the same order as
      real applications. Connections MUST be made when the client is
      interacting with the application and NOT first setup up all connections.
      Connections SHOULD stay open per client for subsequent transactions to
      the same FQDN similar to how a web browser behaves. Clients MUST use
      different URL Paths and Object sizes in orders as they are observed in
      real Applications. Clients MAY also setup multiple connections per FQDN
      to process multiple transactions in a sequence at the same time. Table 6
      has a partial example sequence of the Office 365 Word application
      transactions.</t>

      <figure title="Table 6: Office365 Word Transactions">
        <artwork>+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| FQDN                            | URL Path             | Object   |
|                                 |                      | size     |
+===================================================================+
| company1-my.sharepoint.com      | /personal...         | 23,132   |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| word-edit.officeapps.live.com   | /we/WsaUpload.ashx   | 2        |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| static.sharepointonline.com     | /bld/.../blank.js    | 454      |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| static.sharepointonline.com     | /bld/.../            | 23,254   |
|                                 | initstrings.js       |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| static.sharepointonline.com     | /bld/.../init.js     | 292,740  |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| company1-my.sharepoint.com      | /ScriptResource...   | 102,774  |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| company1-my.sharepoint.com      | /ScriptResource...   | 40,329   |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| company1-my.sharepoint.com      | /WebResource...      | 23,063   |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| word-edit.officeapps.live.com   | /we/wordeditorframe. | 60,657   |
|                                 | aspx...              |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| static.sharepointonline.com     | /bld/_layouts/.../   | 454      |
|                                 | blank.js             |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 19,201   |
|                                 | EditSurface.css      |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 221,397  |
|                                 | WordEditor.css       |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-officeapps-15.cdn.office.net | /we/s/.../           | 107,571  |
|                                 | Microsoft            |          |
|                                 | Ajax.js              |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 39,981   |
|                                 | wacbootwe.js         |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-officeapps-15.cdn.office.net | /we/s/.../           | 51,749   |
|                                 | CommonIntl.js        |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 6,050    |
|                                 | Compat.js            |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 54,158   |
|                                 | Box4Intl.js          |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 24,946   |
|                                 | WoncaIntl.js         |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 53,515   |
|                                 | WordEditorIntl.js    |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../           | 1,978,712|
|                                 | WordEditorExp.js     |          |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| s1-word-edit-15.cdn.office.net  | /we/s/.../jSanity.js | 10,912   |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+
| word-edit.officeapps.live.com   | /we/OneNote.ashx     | 145,708  |
+---------------------------------+----------------------+----------+</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>For application identification the HTTPS/TLS traffic MUST include
      realistic Certificate Subject Common Name (CN) data as well as Server
      Name Indications. For example, a DUT may detect Facebook Chat traffic by
      inspecting the certificate and detecting *.facebook.com in the
      certificate subject CN and subsequently detect the word chat in the FQDN
      5-edge-chat.facebook.com and identify traffic on the connection to be
      Facebook Chat.</t>

      <t>Table 7 includes further examples in SNI and CN pairs for several
      FQDNs of Office 365. <vspace/></t>

      <figure title="Table 7: Office365 SNI and CN Pairs Examples">
        <artwork>+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
|Server Name Indication (SNI)  | Certificate Subject              |
|                              | Common Name (CN)                 |
+=================================================================+
| r1.res.office365.com         | *.res.outlook.com                |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| login.windows.net            | graph.windows.net                |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| webdir0a.online.lync.com     | *.online.lync.com                |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| login.microsoftonline.com    | stamp2.login.microsoftonline.com |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| webdir.online.lync.com       | *.online.lync.com                |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| graph.microsoft.com          | graph.microsoft.com              |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| outlook.office365.com        | outlook.com                      |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+
| appsforoffice.microsoft.com  | appsforoffice.microsoft.com      |
+------------------------------+----------------------------------+</artwork>
      </figure>

      <t>NetSecOPEN has provided a reference enterprise perimeter traffic mix
      with dozens of applications, hundreds of connections, and thousands of
      transactions.<vspace/></t>

      <t>The enterprise perimeter traffic mix consists of 70% HTTPS and 30%
      HTTP by Bytes, 58% HTTPS and 42% HTTP by Transactions. By connections
      with a single connection per FQDN the mix consists of 43% HTTPS and 57%
      HTTP. With multiple connections per FQDN the HTTPS percentage is higher.
      <vspace/></t>

      <t>Table 8 is a summary of the NetSecOPEN enterprise perimeter traffic
      mix sorted by bytes with unique FQDNs and transactions per applications.
      <vspace/></t>

      <figure title="Table 8: Summary of NetSecOPEN Enterprise Perimeter Traffic Mix">
        <artwork>
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Application      | FQDNs | Transactions | Bytes       |
+=======================================================+
| Office365        | 26    | 558          | 52,931,947  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Box              | 4     | 90           | 23,276,089  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Salesforce       | 6     | 365          | 23,137,548  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Gmail            | 13    | 139          | 16,399,289  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Linkedin         | 10    | 206          | 15,040,918  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| DailyMotion      | 8     | 77           | 14,751,514  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| GoogleDocs       | 2     | 71           | 14,205,476  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Wikia            | 15    | 159          | 13,909,777  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Foxnews          | 82    | 499          | 13,758,899  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Yahoo Finance    | 33    | 254          | 13,134,011  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Youtube          | 8     | 97           | 13,056,216  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Facebook         | 4     | 207          | 12,726,231  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| CNBC             | 77    | 275          | 11,939,566  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Lightreading     | 27    | 304          | 11,200,864  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| BusinessInsider  | 16    | 142          | 11,001,575  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Alexa            | 5     | 153          | 10,475,151  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| CNN              | 41    | 206          | 10,423,740  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Twitter Video    | 2     | 72           | 10,112,820  |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Cisco Webex      | 1     | 213          | 9,988,417   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Slack            | 3     | 40           | 9,938,686   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Google Maps      | 5     | 191          | 8,771,873   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| SpectrumIEEE     | 7     | 145          | 8,682,629   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Yelp             | 9     | 146          | 8,607,645   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Vimeo            | 12    | 74           | 8,555,960   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Wikihow          | 11    | 140          | 8,042,314   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Netflix          | 3     | 31           | 7,839,256   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Instagram        | 3     | 114          | 7,230,883   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Morningstar      | 30    | 150          | 7,220,121   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Docusign         | 5     | 68           | 6,972,738   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Twitter          | 1     | 100          | 6,939,150   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Tumblr           | 11    | 70           | 6,877,200   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Whatsapp         | 3     | 46           | 6,829,848   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Imdb             | 16    | 251          | 6,505,227   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| NOAAgov          | 1     | 44           | 6,316,283   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| IndustryWeek     | 23    | 192          | 6,242,403   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Spotify          | 18    | 119          | 6,231,013   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| AutoNews         | 16    | 165          | 6,115,354   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Evernote         | 3     | 47           | 6,063,168   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| NatGeo           | 34    | 104          | 6,026,344   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| BBC News         | 18    | 156          | 5,898,572   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Investopedia     | 38    | 241          | 5,792,038   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Pinterest        | 8     | 102          | 5,658,994   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Succesfactors    | 2     | 112          | 5,049,001   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| AbaJournal       | 6     | 93           | 4,985,626   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Pbworks          | 4     | 78           | 4,670,980   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| NetworkWorld     | 42    | 153          | 4,651,354   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| WebMD            | 24    | 280          | 4,416,736   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| OilGasJournal    | 14    | 105          | 4,095,255   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Trello           | 5     | 39           | 4,080,182   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| BusinessWire     | 5     | 109          | 4,055,331   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Dropbox          | 5     | 17           | 4,023,469   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Nejm             | 20    | 190          | 4,003,657   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| OilGasDaily      | 7     | 199          | 3,970,498   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Chase            | 6     | 52           | 3,719,232   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| MedicalNews      | 6     | 117          | 3,634,187   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Marketwatch      | 25    | 142          | 3,291,226   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Imgur            | 5     | 48           | 3,189,919   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| NPR              | 9     | 83           | 3,184,303   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Onelogin         | 2     | 31           | 3,132,707   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Concur           | 2     | 50           | 3,066,326   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Service-now      | 1     | 37           | 2,985,329   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Apple itunes     | 14    | 80           | 2,843,744   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| BerkeleyEdu      | 3     | 69           | 2,622,009   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| MSN              | 39    | 203          | 2,532,972   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Indeed           | 3     | 47           | 2,325,197   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| MayoClinic       | 6     | 56           | 2,269,085   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Ebay             | 9     | 164          | 2,219,223   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| UCLAedu          | 3     | 42           | 1,991,311   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| ConstructionDive | 5     | 125          | 1,828,428   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| EducationNews    | 4     | 78           | 1,605,427   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| BofA             | 12    | 68           | 1,584,851   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| ScienceDirect    | 7     | 26           | 1,463,951   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Reddit           | 8     | 55           | 1,441,909   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| FoodBusinessNews | 5     | 49           | 1,378,298   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Amex             | 8     | 42           | 1,270,696   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Weather          | 4     | 50           | 1,243,826   |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Wikipedia        | 3     | 27           | 958,935     |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Bing             | 1     | 52           | 697,514     |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| ADP              | 1     | 30           | 508,654     |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
|                  |       |              |             |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+
| Grand Total      | 983   | 10021        | 569,819,095 |
+------------------+-------+--------------+-------------+</artwork>
      </figure>
    </section>
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