Press Release: GL Announces IPNetSim™ with Multi-link and 10 Gbps Rates

Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA - September 20, 2011 - GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its latest IPNetSim™ (IPN600 Series) - An IP / WAN Network Simulator with advanced multi-link emulation and up to 10 Gbps rates. Addressing a press conference, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni CEO of the company said, “IPNetSim™ is an IP network simulator that simulates impairments commonly found in IP Networks, such as bandwidth constriction, congestion, packet jitter, packet delay, packet bit errors, packet loss and other conditions. It can be used to test IP end point devices such as Gateways, IADs, IP phones, Soft phones, and so on for voice, fax, data, or multimedia transmission over IP.”

He added, “The new IPNetSim™ IPN600 series (IPN601 - 1 Gbps Model and IPN610 - 10 Gbps Model) offers 1 or 10 Gbps multi rate capability with four 1 or 10 Gbps SFP+ ports, supporting both 10 Gbps SFP+ and 1 Gbps SFP. With a capacity of up to 4 or 40 Gbps, the IPNetSim™ IPN600 series Network Emulators can simulate two separate up to 4 or 10 Gbps full-duplex links.”

Mr. Kulkarni further added, “The IPNetSim™ Series IPN010, IPN100, and IPN400 differ from the IPNetSim™ Series IPN600 in the number of paths (also called streams or links) that the Emulator Engines (EEs) can support per pair of interfaces. The lower series have one path per EE, one for each direction. The higher series can have up to 15 paths per EE, 15 for each direction.”

Some of the Important Features:

• Supports aggregate capacity of 40 Gbps - two pairs of SFP+ ports - can simulate two separate 10 Gbps full-duplex links - each emulation engine can simulate up to 15 different links.
  
  
• Accurately simulate links from 100 bits per second up to 10 Gbps. Also available in a 1 Gbps version for users who need to emulate many lower speeds links or want the flexibility to upgrade to 10 Gbps later.
  
  
• Supports 10 Gbps SFP+, 1 Gbps SFP, 1/10 Gbps dual-rate SFP+ transceiver, as well as 1 or 10 Gbps direct attach cables.
  
  
• Each emulation port is limited to a packet processing rate of 4.25 million packets per second and an aggregate limit of 17 million pps.
  
  
• Easy-to-use GUI provides the responsiveness of an application with the convenience of a standard web browser.
  
  
• Packets assigned to individual link by any combination of IP address, VLAN, MPLS label, port number, or any other packet field.
  
  
• Emulate latency in constant, normal or uniform distribution in either direction. Emulate jitter using either the normal or uniform distribution.
  
  
• Emulate Packet loss in each direction can be specified in a single value, periodic loss, burst loss, or as bit errors (BER) of values of 1x10-18 or greater; supports packet duplication, contents of received Ethernet frames
  
  
• Emulates dynamically changing WAN conditions like link outages, variable bandwidths links, route flapping, satellite rain fade, and wireless interference with high-flexibility
  
  
• View and download up to 24 hours of throughput graphs and link statistics; self monitoring indicators to verify resources.
  
  
• Capture and reproduce the conditions of a live network link with record/playback functionality

For comprehensive information on the product, please visit IPNetSim™ (IPN600 Series)

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