iTringegy Network Emulator - Companion
Combining Powerful Network Analysis with Capture & Replay of Real-Time Network Conditions
INE Companion is part of the iTrinegy family of Network Emulator products.
It represents a fusion of two technologies:
- Real Time Network Packet Analysis for high level reporting
- Network Packet Tools, including Packet Analysis, Capture, Generation, Replay etc
While all emulators are perfectly capable of creating standard network conditions such as bandwidth, latency, packet drop etc. this is only part of the picture. In real networks, there will be a lot of traffic and other network activity and INE Companion’s powerful reporting capability enables comprehensive visibility and analysis of the ‘Live’ network in order to provide greater clarification and understanding of how the applications perform and utilize the network.
By using INE Companion to monitor activity in the live network, network specialists, testers, and developers will be able to view current and historical performance of their applications across the WAN. The data collected is essential in understanding network usage and provides detailed reporting on errors, dropped packets, bandwidth utilization etc. This allows for base-lining of both the network and application in order to later reconstruct a very realistic Emulated network environment.
INE Companion enables you to:
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Analyze the production (or emulated) network's general health by monitoring application response times and measuring performance and providing superior reporting on this activity
- Measure application bandwidth utilization and overall bandwidth utilization, and reporting on what is running over the network.
- Generate a Network Scenario based on the observed behavior of the live network segment for use with the iTrinegy Network Emulator range. These files may be uploaded to INE Scenario Server
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Generate packets for feeding into INE Enterprise, INE for Windows or INE Compact including being able to specify traffic profiles, which will 'fool' network devices into thinking they are from other applications.
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Capture packets from an existing network link, either whole packets or 'an' number of bytes of the packet so that sensitive data will not be seen - in this case the packet will be filled out with null data.
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Replay captured packets, which will be sent in intervals relative to the time they were received. For example, a packet that was received after 5 minutes will be sent after 5 minutes has elapsed. This will provide the ability to input realistic network traffic as a background load in INE Enterprise and INE for Windows or INE Compact.
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Decode captured packets to see what was in the packets using various filters, which is especially useful when de-bugging performance issues.
As well as being able to provide these powerful and useful network analysis capabilities, the INE Companion will enable you to gather appropriate and relevant production network conditions e.g. %drops, latency, jitter etc, so that more realism can be applied to the testing being conducted with INE Enterprise and INE for Windows.
Other Network Emulator Products
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.