PORTSMOUTH, NH -- QA Cafe, a leading provider of router testing solutions, has launched CDRouter-IKE, a new VPN Gateway test module for the CDRouter™ family of router test products. CDRouter-IKE adds support for testing IKE and IPSEC based VPN routers using the well adopted CDRouter test tool.

"CDRouter-IKE is a big milestone for QA Cafe," stated Joe McEachern, QA Cafe Product Manager. "Many of our existing customers have been asking QA Cafe to develop an IKE testing tool for IKEv1 and IKEv2. CDRouter-IKE will allow them to continue using one primary test solution for all of their conformance and regression needs. CDRouter-IKE has a unique IKE and IPSEC protocol stack which enables automated functional and system level testing of IKE. It also allows CDRouter-IKE to test specific keying issues that are difficult to test without specialized test equipment."

QA Cafe has also released a whitepaper "Interoperability Problems Still Common in IKE: Short Diffie-Hellman Secrets Can Break IKE Interoperability." The whitepaper, available at http://www.qacafe.com/static/pdf/ike_whitepaper.pdf, describes one of the lingering IKE interoperability problems that CDRouter-IKE can detect. Although IKE has been out for a long time, and considered by the Internet community to be a mature protocol, there are still low-level problems affecting interoperability.

Pricing and Availability

CDRouter-IKE is available as an add-on feature to CDRouter. The CDRouter family of products is available as a software-only application or preloaded on QA Cafe's CN1200 test appliance for a complete turn-key test solution. Pricing information is available by contacting QA Cafe at 1-877-332-0784 or via email at sales@qacafe.com. More information on CDRouter-IKE can be found at http://www.qacafe.com/show/ike

About QA Cafe

QA Cafe is a leading provider of IP testing solutions that allow telecom and datacom developers and test engineers to quickly and reliably test crucial IP functionality. QA Cafe test suites provide comprehensive verification for wireless, cable, DSL, CPE, and SOHO routers. QA Cafe's flagship product, CDRouter, is used today by most of the major manufacturers of routers and CPE devices in the Far East, North America, Europe and Asia. CDRouter offers testing of PPPoE, DHCP, NAT, SIP, IKE, 802.1x and over 40 different IP protocols.