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Networked Applications Testing

Ensuring End-User Satisfaction in a Network-Centric World
• Pro-actively plan capacity requirements
• Assess the sensitivity of your distributed applications PRODUCTS
• Determine how resource sharing can lead to degradation of Net Tool Optimizer
performance
Network Emulator
• Identify the best techniques (buffering, QoS, MPLS, bandwidth
shaping) to assure quality of experience for the end user
• Find problems early, before deployment, to improve the
quality of your products and services

The demands on the corporate network are constantly increasing and so are performance expectations. End
users assume they can use their IP phone for the conference call (with the same reliability as the PBX) and
follow the presentation broadcast to their PC from Asia (with the same performance as their cable TV at
home) while catching up on managing their data in the company ERP database on the other coast (with sub-
second response times). All on the same network.

Anue Network Emulators allow you to precisely control the amount of errors, delays and other
impairments that you add to network traffic during testing.

Many distributed applications are sensitive to network conditions, such as:

• Mission critical enterprise applications
• Transaction-oriented applications
• Conferencing systems
• VoIP
• IPTV
• Streaming media
• Gaming
• VPNs

End-user satisfaction in a network-centric world isn’t a natural

by-product of connecting the devices. It is the result of careful
planning and testing to account for all the factors that can
impact application performance. Examples of these metrics are:
• Delay
• Jitter
• Packet Loss
• Packet Sequencing
• Bit Errors
• Available bandwidth

Understanding distributed application performance is also important for conducting capacity planning.
Capacity planning can optimize network infrastructure, reduce costs, accommodate future growth and
provide insight into how resources are used. Effective capacity planning requires analyzing end-to-end
performance in order to understand which applications and hosts use which resources and how the
applications perform for end users, particularly in the presence of network impairments.

Unfortunately, testing the performance of distributed applications means running the applications under
various network conditions to evaluate how they respond. Spools of fiber can be used to characterize the
delay associated with long-haul networks, but they can’t be used to vary delay or emulate other QoS

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metrics. Testing applications under realistic network conditions requires the use of Anue Network
Emulators.

By running critical networked applications in a realistic emulated environment, you can establish, maintain
and optimize performance and availability. Anue GEM and XGEM Network Emulators can emulate up to 64
different network profiles simultaneously at full line rate for all packet sizes, enabling you to reproduce with
accuracy any network configuration and condition, including delay, jitter, errors, drop, reorder,
fragmentation, duplication, buffering, flow control, and bandwidth constraints.

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