The most realistic network equipment testing tools is provided by BreakingPoint with addition of QQ to list of supported applications for testing including AIM®, Jabber®, IRC, Windows® Live Messenger and Yahoo! ® Messenger.

Attracting more than a billion active users to popular services such as AIM®, Jabber®, IRC, Windows® Live Messenger and Yahoo! ® Messenger, Instant Messaging services have become a critical communication tool throughout the world. Add QQ IM to this list of IM brand names. QQ, feveloped by Tencnet Holdings, is the world's third most popular IM platform with an estimated 320 million active users, 160 million of these users in China.

For global business communications, testing with realistic application traffic is critical.

With more sophisticated networks and communications tools such as instant messaging, working globally has become a day-to-day reality. With a majority of IM now being used in business settings, market research firm Radicati Group estimates the worldwide number of IM accounts at 1.06 billion in 2007 and growing to close to 1.7 billion by 2011. With more than half of surveyed companies using IM for business purposes, ranging from real-time customer support to marketing and sales, Instant messaging has become a critical business communication tool. The traffic generated from this community of IM users leads to a strain on network performance and network security and ultimately towards negative repercussions on business unless network devices are tested properly.

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