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Network Impairment Emulator

For WAN simulation and a thorough emulation of networks and their obstacles, Spirent Network Impairment Emulators enable users to accurately create the delays and impairments that occur over live production networks for validating and evaluating new products and technologies.

Spirent Ethernet Network Emulators are essential for testing multimedia products and services, storage networks, circuit emulation services, Timing over Packet, disaster recovery, data center moves, mobile/wireless infrastructure, WAN and TCP acceleration, multiplay applications, and many other solutions.

Real-world testing with flexible impairment programming ensures a fully developed solution and an increase in quality of experience for the user.

Bring the realism of live network conditions into the lab to know for certain that your solutions will deliver the performance and quality of experience your customers expect.

Key Features

• Hardware-based architecture provides maximum accuracy and repeatability
• 10GigE, GigE and 10/100Mbps, SONET, SDH, OTN, Fibre Channel, FC, CPRI interfaces at 100% line rate even with minimum size frames
• Define up to 16 Network Profiles per interface for emulating different CoS or multiple paths
• Ability to dynamically change impairment profile and chain impairments without data loss or test restart
• Standards-based Network Impairment Models per TIA-921 and ITU-T G.1050, MEF-18, G.8261
• Router Mode to connect up to 16 different IP subnets to a single interface
• Multiprotocol support (SONET, SDH, OTN, Fibre Channel, CPRI, and Ethernet (10/100/1Gig/10Gig) on the same chassis

Key Benefits

• Enables validation, performance and interoperability testing of systems under real-world conditions with precise and reproducible results
• Provides users with the confidence that systems will perform as expected on production networks
• Realistic problem replication for troubleshooting
• Less risk and time-to-deploy for new products and services
• Save money with reduced post-sale support costs achieved through minimizing troubleshooting
• Detailed and realistic results provide improved Quality of Experience and user satisfaction
• Field programmable architecture protects investment
• Quickly create a test bed that matches your real network by recording and replaying conditions found on the live network
• Leverage thousands of industry-standard models and test suites