Apposite launches Netropy network emulator
Emulation engine assesses the impact of WAN conditions on worldwide user experience.
Rick Nelson, Editor in Chief -- Test & Measurement World, 4/13/2010 12:08:36 PM
Apposite Technologies has introduced its Netropy network emulator, enabling informed decisions on application performance, infrastructure investment, and network optimization to improve end users' experience. The Netropy emulation engine simulates complex WAN topologies to help benchmark, troubleshoot, and optimize critical enterprise applications, including those involving file sharing, network storage, databases, and IP voice and video.
DC Palter, president of Apposite Technologies, said the goal of the emulator is to "bring network test to the masses." He positions it between high-end, expensive, complex equipment employed by telecom professionals and inadequate freeware tools that attempt to turn a PC into a network emulator. The emulator targets, he said, application and equipment developers more than test professionals.
"Users at branch and local offices rely on responsive access to application servers across the WAN," said Robert Smithers, CEO from Miercom. "Netropy's ability to simulate complex networks provides crucial insight into application performance that allows IT departments to make the right decisions prior to vendor selection and application purchase."
Palter pointed out that an application that performs well within a campus may degrade significantly when, for example, a user connects via a DSL. He added that application performance is highly dependent not only on the amount of bandwidth available between a datacenter and a distant end-users, but on the latency, jitter, loss, and network congestion. With the increasing centralization of corporate networks and the growth of Web 2.0 applications and cloud-based computing, IT managers and network administrators need to be able to predict the throughput, responsiveness, and quality of applications at remote sites, he said.
To that end, Netropy's emulation engine models dozens of concurrent WAN links up to 10 Gbps, providing a fast, cost-efficient means to assess the end-user experience prior to rollout.
Commenting in a press release, Ken Spickler, director of systems engineering at Talon Data Systems, said, "The Netropy network emulator makes it easy for us to effectively simulate various 10-Gbps networks, ensuring that when our NetFlight appliance is deployed on a customer network, we can be confident it will perform as expected."
Netropy's filtering and emulation features allows users to simulate multisite networks by emulating simultaneous connections between centralized resources and regional, branch, and local offices; benchmark multiple products or conditions by running side-by-side comparisons; run multiple tests concurrently to slash the time needed to collect data; isolate individual applications to measure the impact of particular conditions on each application; and model advanced queuing and loss to makes it possible to build accurate models of complex network conditions.
The Netropy product line consists of three separate appliances: Netropy N60 is a single 1-Gbps emulation engine with up to 15 separate WAN links, Netropy N80 includes four separate 1-Gbps emulation engines of 15 WAN links each, and Netropy 10G includes two 10-Gbps and one 1-Gbps emulation engines.
Base price: $8000. Apposite Technologies, www.apposite-tech.com.
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