Sitehop has enhanced its testing capabilities by bringing critical performance validation in-house. Supported by a five-figure Productivity Grant from South Yorkshire Mayoral Authority, the company invested in a cutting-edge Teledyne LeCroy Xena Loki 100G traffic-generation and testing platform, supplied by Red Helix.
This in-house setup enables Sitehop to perform bi-directional testing of ultra-low latency, high-speed networks — specifically, sub-microsecond latency at 100Gbps — eliminating delays associated with outsourcing. Previously reliant on an external lab in France, which involved a minimum two-week turnaround costing over £18,000 per cycle, the new UK-based testing facility allows the company to complete comprehensive validation within a single day. This shift significantly boosts engineering productivity and accelerates product development.
The Xena Loki platform is used to validate Sitehop’s SAFEcore platform, capable of achieving 835 nanoseconds latency at 100Gbps encryption while supporting 4,000 concurrent connections. It deploys crypto-agile encryption suited for sectors such as telecoms, finance, government, and critical national infrastructure. The rigorous testing includes peak load, burst traffic, error injection, fault recovery, and end-to-end encrypted traffic flows, ensuring high standards of performance and resilience.
With the speed and precision of the Xena Loki device, Sitehop can thoroughly assess latency, throughput, packet loss, and error handling across diverse profiles — crucial for demonstrating that SAFEcore meets the demanding requirements of high-bandwidth, low-latency applications such as 5G backhaul, wearable security tech, and post-quantum cryptography.
“This capability accelerates our product release cycles, reduces the risk of failure in the field, and provides clients with greater confidence during procurement. It’s a major selling point for enterprise and critical infrastructure sectors,” said Melissa Chambers, CEO and co-founder of Sitehop. “Our ability to validate performance locally and rapidly is a cornerstone of our growth, and the grant has been instrumental in establishing this vital capability.”
The platform’s validation procedures adhere to industry benchmarks RFC 2544 and Y.1564, ensuring consistent results. However, Sitehop’s custom profiles often push beyond traditional testing scopes, simulating threat scenarios, dynamic key exchanges, and adaptive stream-shaping to verify resilience under real-world conditions.
“Sitehop exemplifies the UK’s hardware-based security innovation. Hardware-accelerated testing with the Teledyne LeCroy Xena Loki provides the speed, accuracy, and reliability needed to bring quantum-ready encryption solutions to market faster — without compromising quality,” said Liam Jackson, Director of Technology Solutions at Red Helix.
