VIAVI Solutions Inc. (NASDAQ: VIAV) announced the launch of its CyberFlood CF1000 Appliance, a 400G security and application performance test platform designed for validating multi-terabit security and AI data center infrastructures.

The CF1000 targets network equipment vendors, hyperscale data center operators and service providers for testing critical infrastructure including next-generation firewalls, application delivery controllers, DDoS mitigation systems, VPN gateways and AI inference fabrics under encrypted traffic conditions.

The appliance operates in a 2RU form factor and supports four 400G OSFP ports and eight 100G QSFP28 ports, enabling up to 1.2Tbps of application traffic testing. The platform provides more than 500Gbps of encrypted throughput and supports up to 800,000 TLS v1.3 connections per second.

Dell'Oro Group projects the global network security market to exceed $30 billion in 2026, driven by Zero Trust initiatives, AI workloads and cloud expansion. "As networks move toward 400G and higher speeds, the combination of encrypted traffic, AI-driven workloads and distributed cloud architectures is raising the bar for security performance validation," said Mauricio Sanchez, Senior Director at Dell'Oro Group.

The CF1000 includes AI inference traffic emulation capabilities for testing large language model performance and AI-driven application workloads at terabit scale. This allows evaluation of end-to-end AI inference infrastructure performance.

"The challenge has intensified as organizations build infrastructure to enable the agentic era, which require that quantum security, AI inference workloads and AI-enabled security policies all work seamlessly together," said Sashi Jeyaretnam, Senior Director of Security Product Management at VIAVI.

VIAVI is a test and measurement company that provides solutions for data center ecosystems, communication networks and various end markets including aerospace and automotive.