Netropy® Virtual Edition

Emulate Realistic
Network Conditions
in VirtualEnvironments
to Guarantee
Application Quality

NetropyVE lets you test any virtual application as if it’s runningover a wide area network. Recreate real-world network
conditions, such as bandwidth limits, excessive latency/jitter,loss, and other impairments, to optimize the performance ofapplications and virtualized network functions (VNF).
NetropyVE runs as a Virtual Machine (VM) and can be used toimpair specific traffic flows—all within the virtual environment.
By intelligently mimicking network conditions you can ensurethe solutions you are designing and deploying work as
expected when rolled out to your users.

Rigorously Evaluate Applications in Different Stages and Environments

Application
DesignDevOpsNetwork
DesignApplication
Performance

Cellular
Networks

SD-WAN

Storage
Networks

Satellite
Communications

FEATURES
Scalability: Route multiple VMs through a single
NetropyVE instance

Packet filtering: Assign packets to different links by IP
address, VLAN, or any other packet identifier.

characteristics of a production network as they vary
second-by-second and replay them through the Netropy
emulator.

Background noise: Test how applications perform over

Bandwidth: Precisely emulate links up to 1 Gbps.

a congested network with the background utilization andPCAP replay features.

Latency: Emulate delay and jitter of 10 seconds or more

Traffic monitoring: View and download up to 24 hours

in each direction, in increments of 0.01 ms.

Loss and corruption: Set random, burst, or periodic

packet loss to test the effects of corruption on voice andvideo applications.

Capture and replay: Record the delay and lossof throughput graphs and link statistics.

Automation: Automate testing with comprehensive API.
Cost-effective: Get the functionality and performance
you need at a price you can afford.

Capacity
Test Ports

2 1-Gig ethernet (virtual network adapters)

Max. Agg. Throughput

2 GbpsEmulation engines

1 @ 1 Gigabit

Maximum Packet Rate

Processor Dependent

Maximum Frame Size

9KB

Emulation Capabilities
Packet Classification

IP source & destination address range (IPv4 or IPv6), VLAN, TCP or UDP port number, IPToS, MAC address, MPLS label, or any other packet contents

Bandwidth

100 bps – 100 Gbps in 1 bps increments (depending on model)

Delay0 ms – 10, 000 ms or greater in each direction in 0.01 ms increments; constant, uniform,normal distributions; replay recorded loss, accumulate & burst

Loss & Corruption

random, burst, periodic, BER, Gilbert-Elliott, or recorded loss; data corruption; network
outageBackground Utilization0 – 100% in increments of 0.1%; PCAP replay

Queueing & Prioritization

RED or tail drop queue management; priority or round robin queuing

Additional Parameters

Packet Reordering, Packet Duplication, MTU and Fragmentation, Queue Depth, Framing
Overhead

Additional Details
Requirements

EXSI 5.5 and above, 2 VCPUs, and 8 Gigabytes of ram and 1G of hard drive space.

Security

SSL and SSH for secure management; per-user locking of engine conﬁguration

Support and maintenanceSupport is included with product license and software maintenance

Ordering Information
Part Number

NVE

Product license - 1 year

NVE-1YR

Product license - 3 years

NVE-3YR02

THE CHALLENGES
Networks are imperfect—how will
your application perform in thereal world? Get the most realistic,
geographically distributed
understanding of your app’squality.

Customers access applications
over many different network
types, each with different
performance characteristics.
Safeguard application
performance on any network.

Optimize network designs for
improved ROI by finding out how
work-loads will behave at different
locations. Which applications
or storage systems need to be
deployed at the network edge?

Virtualized Network Emulation

POWERFULFLEXIBLESCALABLE

Each virtual machine can be
assigned a unique WAN accessprofile, and then controlled
to insert latency, jitter, packet
loss, and congestion to asses
application performance underchanging

Change impairments and view
results in real time. Configure
settings using a browser orautomate with CLI. Even profile
live networks and importthose conditions into network
emulation.

Supported on VMware ESXI andKVM platforms. A floating license
system allows NetropyVE to beeasily moved to different hosts.
Route multiple VMs through a single NetropyVE instance.

VM

VM

VM

VM

AppServer

Netropy
VE

Netropy
VEAppServervDUTvDUT

Virtual Switch
Hypervisor
COTs

Network Emulation Made Easy
Many software development teams run their tests in a cloud or private datacenter where they do not have theability to install an appliance. With NetropyVE, it is now possible to install WAN emulation between virtualresources. For high bandwidth applications, Netropy appliances are available supporting all speeds up to 100Gbps.

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