FLAMETHROWER AND MERCURY INTERACTIVE LOADRUNNER Finally you can proactively determine network infrastructure vs. application as root cause of performance or network failure issues, before they happen! FlameThrowerTM is the leading application layer traffic generation appliance. By emulating host users and protocol traffic you can quickly determine a network infrastructure's overall performance and capacity, specific device efficiencies, and assist in network optimization. LoadRunnerTM from Mercury InteractiveTM is the industry standard for application load testing, emulating users from the browser or end-user perspective. In the past these types of solutions would have to work in separate test configurations and date derived from ether type of test would have to be arduously analyzed independently - not anymore. As part of the Mercury Interactive Open Architecture Alliance program ANTARA.net has worked directly with Mercury interactive engineers to integrate functionality within the two solutions With both load generation products working hand in hand it is now possible to quickly differentiate network infrastructure issues from application issues. FlameThrower is capable of producing 2,000,000 hosts at over 30,000 HTTP GETs per second from a single chassis. This level of stress will exercise the entire network infrastructure including: firewalls, caches, SLBs and servers directly. At the same time the powerful application load testing capabilities of LoadRunner will determine deep session response time of server, web applications and databases.