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Need WAN simulator - what to get

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spidey07

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I'm in the market for a WAN simulator for some upcoming testing. I can tie all sorts of routers together with V.35 cables or even CSUs. I can simulate frame-relay with a few cisco routers.

What I can't do is induce the latency you experience with a service provider WAN. Anything out there people use to simulate frame-relay, ISDN, T1, T3? Something modular with good control and reports would be nice.

Thanks!
spidey
 
You could configure a couple of Cisco routers as frame switches, tie 'em together with T1-speed circuits and generate some traffic on other interfaces. You wouldn't really be able to test latency that way, but could look at traffic loads.

Check out RadCom's Frame Relay Analyzer / Simulator. I've never used it, but it looks pretty cool.

Spirent is also pretty heavily into this - Might be worth a look. Their AX4000 product does frame, ATM, Ethernet, etc.

- G
 
thanks G,

yeah, already have 7200s and 3600s frame-relay meshed to all get out. It is the latency that I need to observe (working on a lot of voice/video/QoS stuff)

I'll check out those products
 
Check out a product called "The Cloud" by Shun Ra Systems ( www.shunra.com ). It's software for NT/2K I believe.

It basically lets you take a snapshot of any connection, then "replay" the ENVIRONMENT simulating the delays & traffic conditions. So you can snapshot Monday morning, Friday afternoon, and the Wednesday Lunchtime Quake tournaments....then use those conditions on a closed test system.

Good Luck

Scott


 
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