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What Is Network Emulation?

Network Emulation creates Virtual Test Networks which mimic real-world networks, including routers and links.

Real Network Traffic can be run through the Virtual Test Network, allowing you to accurately emulate user experiences on networked applications. Network Emulation gives you complete control over the conditions of the Virtual Test Network, allowing you to replicate a vast range of user experiences.

Today’s applications are delivered over private and public networks including LAN, WAN, Satellite, Mobile, WiFi, DSL, Internet, etc. Applications must not only operate in normal conditions but extreme conditions too. Failure to properly verify an application’s tolerance to changing network conditions can result errors and failures, leading to loss of revenue, damage to brand reputation or even loss of life in military or blue light services.

Network Emulation is applicable to almost every industry including defence, gaming, retail, financial services, healthcare, ecommerce, utilities; in fact any organisation that wants to mitigate the risk of application failure in networks.

Impairment Key Features

  • Integrates with Aticara test systems for a complete test environment that includes real-world impairments
  • Offers robust profile configuration for line-rate packet capture; produces standard PCAP output format
  • Enables validation, performance, and interoperability testing
  • Precisely reproduces and quickly resolves issues occurring in the field
  • Provides a single hardware platform for both Ethernet and Fibre Channel
  • Allows IT to test mixed speeds simultaneously using one device
  • Delivers flexible resource management

    • Problem: Worst-Case Scenarios For Live Environments

    Many organizations overlook the importance of emulating realistic and worst-case network scenarios in the lab. Failure to test variables such as application performance, delay and fail-over protection can have serious real-world implications. Without insight into the performance of new hardware, protocols, and applications, the risk of deployment problems rises dramatically. Organizations need a way to reproduce realistic network conditions and behaviour to avoid impairments and achieve bottom-line benefits.

    Solution : Real-World Networks In The Lab

    Aticara is a precision test Software Application for 1GE, 10GE, and 100GE Ethernet impairment that enables IT to accurately emulate network conditions that occur over live production LAN/WAN networks. With Aticara’s next-generation network emulation, organizations can validate and test the performance of new hardware, protocols, and applications in a controlled lab environment.

    How will applications perform when distributed across data centres?

    What will be the precise effects of delay on application and network performance?

    How will data centre backup perform in a real-life environment?

    Aticara software toll answers all these questions to determine real-world network performance without real-world repercussions.