NetworkTester

NetworkTester – An Integrated Solution

By taking an integrated approach to testing, the Agilent NetworkTester accelerates the development or deployment of your next-generation Multi-Play devices, systems, services and network security equipment.

Triple-Play - NetworkTester is the first application test solution to offer high-speed data, VoIP and video testing on a single port, within a single test system. Emulate thousands of real users, change the traffic application mix, and measure the impact of data applications on voice and video performance.

Multi-Play - NetworkTester allows you to add other multi-play applications, such as Instant Messaging, to complete the Multi-Play application mix. Emulate realistic mixes of application traffic to characterize system performance limits and Quality of Experience under expected loads.

Proprietary Applications - Proprietary protocols such as network games and P2P applications can be simulated and scaled using NetworkTester's superior bi-directional, stateful Capture/Replay capability. Multiple sessions can be simulated on many different addresses to multiply application clients and servers. Simulate many users playing games, sharing files and using common messaging services. With P2P traffic now dominating the Internet, NetworkTester's proprietary protocol capabilities enable you to quantify the effectiveness of the latest Application Traffic Management methods such as P2P rate limiting, layer-7 "deep packet" classification and tagging, and application prioritization. For example, you can measure the real-time performance impact of application-aware firewalls that can recognize and filter undesirable traffic.

Denial of Service Attacks - A triple-play or multi-play system is not complete until it is performance-tested while subjected to attack traffic. With NetworkTester, you can add DoS attacks, spam and virus attachments to your application traffic mix. Ramp-up attack packet rates while you observe, in real time, the degradation in your system's performance. How rapidly does Quality of Experience degrade? Does VoIP call set-up time suffer, or can your system detect attacks and maintain the priority of real-time traffic? How much headroom do end users need, during Capacity Planning, to allow for malicious traffic? Can your network equipment still meet the performance expectations of your customers, to satisfy SLAs? NetworkTester answers these questions to help you improve intrusion prevention to make you look better than your competitors.

Access Protocols - Other so-called solutions offer separate test applications for access protocols such as IPsec. This is not an acceptable solution for triple-play performance testing. Only NetworkTester fully integrates VLANs and access protocols such as IPsec, IPsecv6, DHCP, PPPoE and 802.1x into a single NetPressure application, allowing you to easily emulate your voice, video and data applications, including proprietary protocols and attack traffic, over combinations of access protocols, VPN tunnels, VLANs, and IPv4 plus IPv6 address ranges. All at the same time. Just like many real users would.

Set it up in Minutes - The innovative NetPressure application goes beyond traditional telephony test tools, packet blasters, and legacy client-and-server test systems. It takes only minutes to configure seemingly complex test scenarios involving data, voice, video and attack traffic. On a single port, or on multiple ports. From the same test system. Without writing a single script. And you can correlate all of your client and server measurements to rapidly find and diagnose performance bottlenecks or tune system performance.