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Wan emulation testing network applications using wan emulators
1. WAN Emulation - Testing Network Applications Using WAN
Emulators
Newbury Park, CA - A networked application is any application that
intrinsically uses a network as part of its operation, e.g. web based
applications, networked database access, file transfer programs, mail
transfer programs, messaging protocols, streaming voice, video, radio etc.
It does not include applications like MS Word, unless of course a file
needs to be opened on a remote file share.
These networked applications are now core to many of the things every
computer user does every day - simple things like accessing bank
accounts online, accessing emails & calendars, booking travel tickets,
social networking, (Facebook), and smart phone applications. They also
can be found in processes such as controlling traffic lights and operating
modern IP based public CCTV.
There is a whole world of difference between how an application runs in
the LAN and how it runs in the WAN, Satellite, Mobile 3G/GPRS etc.,
which cannot be simply resolved by increasing the available bandwidth.
WAN emulation can be accomplished by introducing a device on the LAN
that alters packet flow in a way that imitates the behavior of application
visitors in the environment being emulated. This device might be either a
general-purpose personal computer running software to perform the
network emulation or a dedicated emulation device. The device
incorporates a variety of network attributes into its emulation model -
such as the round-trip time across the network (latency), the quantity of
available bandwidth, a given degree of packet loss, duplication of
packets, reordering packets, and/or the severity of network jitter.
Desktop PCs can be connected to the emulated environment, so that
users can encounter the performance and behavior of applications in
that environment initial-hand. Similarly, phones can be connected to the
emulated environment so that users can directly assess VoIP call quality
for themselves.
WAN Emulation differs from simulation in that a network emulator
appears to be a network end-systems such as computers can be attached
to the emulator and will behave as if they are attached to a network.
Network simulators are usually programs which run on a single pc, take
an abstract description of the network traffic (such as a flow arrival
method) and yield performance statistics (such as buffer occupancy as a
function of time).
A network emulator emulates the network which connects end-systems,
not the end-systems themselves. Systems which emulate the end-
systems are called visitors generators.