Powerful Network Profiling with Re-Creation of Actual Network Conditions
INE Companion is a unique adjunct to our INE family of Network Emulators. It is designed to answer the question "What are the characteristics (bandwidth, latency, loss etc) of our own network links so that we can create a realistic emulated environment in application development and testing purposes?"
Organizations are increasingly realising that applications which work well in their LANs may well perform badly in other network environments e.g.:
- New consolidated data centres (hosted or not) where corporate offices now access servers over the WAN
- Customer environments over which they have no control
- Mobile 3G/GPRS, TETRA etc
- Satellite networks, including VSAT
- Regular WANs - MPLS and leased circuits
- The internet
INE Companion is supplied pre-installed on a rack-mount server
iTrinegy has created its INE Network Emulator family of products to allow the re-creation of these networks so that applications can be properly tested or assessed to ensure that they will work in the real environment.
INE Companion is unique because it analyzes the network characteristics by profiling actual network traffic - a much more effective technique than using SNMP based information and ping data.
- While profiling the network traffic to extract network characteristics it is also able to offer very powerful reporting on the network traffic by ip address, groups of addresses, application types etc.
Thus with the INE Companion used in the live network environment we can profile the existing network, create emulation "scenarios" for our INE Network Emulator family and use its reporting to investigate traffic flows and response times. The latter can be used for troubleshooting and capacity planning. - With the INE Companion used in the emulated test environment it can offer superior reporting on traffic flows and response times during testing. In addition to this, its traffic generation, replay and capture features offer the ability to provide load to the emulated environment
iTrinegy now offers one of the most comprehensive ranges of network emulation products to help you simulate realistic network environments. Please visit our network emulator products overview page to see what other solutions are available.
