SCENARIO
As customers develop or deploy new products, they need assurance that those products will function properly in real network conditions that occur in live-production local area network (LAN)/WAN networks. In live networks, the network or the application may experience delays, and the effects of those delays should be simulated in a controlled testing environment. The reaction of products and applications to worst-case network conditions is an important consideration as you bring new products and applications into the network.
IXIA SOLUTIONS
Ixia’s Network Emulator II is a precision test instrument for 10GE, 1GE, and 100MbE impairment. The device allows users to accurately emulate the real network conditions that occur over live-production LAN/WAN networks. By emulating realistic and worst-case network conditions in the lab, users can validate and test the performance of new hardware, protocols, and applications to prevent failures in production networks. The emulator function is also available in a 100/50/40/25GE Hybrid Network Emulator configuration.
Emulate real-world networks in the lab:
• Create a real-world testing environment by reproducing realistic network conditions and behavior.
• Test validation, performance, and interoperability.
• Test products and applications to characterize end-user experience under realworld conditions.
• Precisely reproduce and quickly resolve issues occurring in the field.
The Network Emulator II offers a rich feature set to allow testing in a controlled lab environment with repeatable and predictable impairments. Network Emulator II enables you to:
• Test the effect of delay on the network and application performance
• Determine how applications will perform when distributed across data centers
•Test data center backup in a real-life environment
•Cause outage and degrade scenarios to trigger and validate fail-over protection
•Combine with IxNetwork, IxLoad, and BreakingPoint test systems to create a complete test environment that includes real-world impairments
