Press Release
iTrinegy’s Network Emulators help reduce costs for Customer
Pre-deployment Application Testing in the WAN
Cambridge, UK, and Reno, Nevada, USA, September 2nd, 2009, — iTrinegy, the Networked Application Performance Lifecycle™ experts, is enabling companies to cut costs by emulating network conditions so that they can conduct realistic pre-deployment testing of applications that will need to work in the WAN.
iTrinegy, in discussion with their clients, has found that the cost of having to go back and re-test application behaviour can be high for organisations and so testing in controlled and repeatable conditions is essential for companies that need to see exactly how applications will perform in a ‘real’ live networked environment, such as WAN, Cloud, MPLS, Wireless, Satellite or Radio Networks.
Frank Puranik, Product Director for iTrinegy says ‘For many of our clients there is a BIG advantage in conducting pre-deployment testing of all the variable (network conditions) that can affect the behavior of an application out in the WAN such as packet loss, jitter, latency. Our WAN emulators allow testers and developers to see how network characteristics adversely effect an application when it is placed in a production network. Being able to spot and rectify problems prior to roll-out, rather than post-implementation enables our customers to avoid the need for costly retrospective modifications
David Forret, is a Lead Systems Engineer in the UK, for Thomson Reuters, and oversees one of their test and development divisions. As part of the test he looked at network emulation tools to test the behavior of applications in various network conditions before deployment. “There is a phenomenal amount of data being delivered – around two-hundred and fifty thousand updates per second, so the testing of external network issues such as dropped packets, delays, bandwidth utilization and latency issues are being carried out at all times.’ David continues ‘Our testers, developers and system engineers are actively improving our software through rigorous and extensive testing. Being proactive is more important than being reactive. By pushing applications and communications to the point of failure we can effectively guarantee the applications once they go live in the normal production environment’.
David concludes ‘iTrinegy network emulator solutions give us the ability to set up consistent and controllable application test conditions, and through this there is an added advantage of being able to keep the costs down by increasing the testing of the applications without increasing the costs associated with using a real MPLS network. Data has to get there yesterday – the moment it leaves the exchange it’s visible within Thomson Reuters in less than 1.5 seconds. In that time, it is shipped, time stamped, converted and processed. With speeds like this, testing continues to be an essential part of our overall development and network/application testing’.
