Document Number IPN600-1.3-08 1 818 West Diamond Avenue - Third Floor, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Phone: (301) 670-4784 Fax: (301) 670-9187 Email: [email protected]

Document Number IPN600-1.3-08

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818 West Diamond Avenue - Third Floor, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Phone: (301) 670-4784 Fax: (301) 670-9187 Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.gl.com

GL Communications Inc


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IPNetSim™ IPN600 Series(IPN601 1G / IPN610 10G)


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Network Monitoring & Simulationwith IPNetSim™ IPN600 series

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.

The new IPNetSim™ IPN600 series (IPN601 1Gbps Model and IPN610 10Gbps Model) offers 1 or 10 Gbps multi rate capability with four 1 or 10 Gbps SFP+ ports


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Key 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.

• 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.

IPNetSim™ IPN600 Series


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Key Features… Simulates -

network latency, network delay variation (jitter) packet errors, bit errors delay, congestion WAN bandwidth, Link outages, route flapping, and other dynamically changing WAN conditions

• 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.

• Traffic Monitor – 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.

• Offers the precision and performance of a professional-quality WAN emulator with least cost

• Test IP end point devices such as Gateways, IADs, IP phones, Soft phones, & so on for voice, fax,

data, or multimedia transmission over IP.

• Command Line Interface for Automated Testing



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Who uses the IPNetSim™?

IPNetSim™ is designed for anyone who needs an accurate, easy-to-use, cost-effective way to simulate WAN conditions, including:

Corporate IT Managers

Application and equipment developers

Military network developers

Sales and SE professionals

Networking equipment resellers and system integrators

Q/A teams

Test labs


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IPNetSim IPN600 Models

IPN601 - IPNetSim™ - 1000 /100 /10 Mbps, 4 ports:

• Max. Emulation Rate up to 1GB/s full duplex

• Max. Packet Rate - 17,000,000 packets per second aggregate

• 4x SFP+ Dual Rate 1/10 Gbps auto-negotiate


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IPNetSim IPN600 Models…

IPN610 - IPNetSim™ - 10,000 / 1000 / 100 / 10 Mbps, 4 ports:

• Max. Emulation Rate up to 10GB/s full duplex

• Max. Packet Rate - 17,000,000 packets per second aggregate

• 4x SFP+ Dual Rate 1/10 Gbps auto-negotiate


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Product TypeDescriptions IPNetSim

IPN610: 10 GbpsIPN601: 1 Gbps 4 ports

IPNetSim IPN010: 100 Mbps, IPN100: 1 Gbps ports, IPN400: 4 x 1 Gbps

Emulated WAN links (per port pair) 15 1

Port pairs per unit 2IPN010: 1IPN100: 4IPN400: 4

Interface Type 4 x SFP+ (1/10 Gbps auto-negotiate)

IPN010: 2 x 10/100/1000 baseT Gigabit Ethernet emulation

IPN100, IPN400: : 4 x 10/100/1000 baseT Gigabit Ethernet and 4 x SFP Gigabit Ethernet

Max. Packet Rate 17,000,000 packets per seconds 250,000 to 3 MB packets per second

Packet filtering

Source and destination IP address

Source and Dest. IPv6 address

VLAN ID and PCP value

TCP/UDP port numbers

MAC address

MPLS label

Any arbitrary packet field

N/A

Bandwidth emulation 300 bps to 10 Gbps 300 bps to 1 Gbps



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Product Types…Descriptions IPNetSim



Latency & Jitter0 ms – 10,000 ms in 0.1 ms increments

Constant, uniform, normal distributions

Packet Loss Models Random, Periodic, Burst, BER Random, BER

Packet Corruption Packet Reordering Packet Duplication

Queue Management

Tail drop,

Random early detection (RED), also known as random early discard or random early drop

Tail drop

ToS Prioritization FIFO, Strict Priority, Round Robin Access link rate control In-bound and out-bound Out-bound

Live condition capture and replay



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Product Types…Descriptions IPNetSim



Background utilization Jumbo frames Statistics download 24 hours

Throughput graphs24 hours reviewable with pan and zoom controls

Previous 10 minutes

Self-monitoring indicators and warnings Full CLI SSL and SSH secure access Multiple users with configuration locking



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Emulation Engine

• Functions as a layer 2 bridge connecting two LAN segments, forwarding packets received on one port across to the other port and applying the configured emulation conditions between a pair of Ethernet ports



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Emulation Paths

• Up to 15 separate paths (emulated WAN links) may be configured within each Emulation Engine.

• WAN link can be any type of wide-area network connection between two sites including terrestrial private lines, shared networks such as the Internet, and specialized satellite or wireless networks.

• The WAN access device is usually a router, but can also be a cable or DSL modem or other type of device that connects an entire site or a single user to the wide-area network.

• Each path can be configured with its own bandwidth, delay, loss, and other WAN properties.



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Point-to-Point Network

• T1 or OC-3 lines directly connecting two sites are point-to-point connections.

IPNetSim™ IPN600 Series – Paths


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Cloud Network

• Have limited speed access to a high-speed WAN and frequently different speed access to the cloud at the opposite site.

IPNetSim™ IPN600 Series – Paths


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Packet Classifier

• Classifiers are set of rules that specify which packets are sent over which paths.

• Each classification rule includes an action that specifies whether matching packets are sent over

one of the configured paths, dropped, or forwarded without emulation.



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Packet Classifier

• One can classify packets by

IP source and destination address range,

IPv6 address

VLAN ID and PCP (priority code point) value in the IEEE 802.1Q VLAN tag

MPLS label

MAC address

TCP or UDP port number

or Raw Data classification based on any part of packet contents or combination of well-known fields



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Recorder



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Recorder

• Captures the conditions of the live network such as delay, and loss values & records them to a file.

• Used to benchmark and troubleshoot the performance of applications or reproduce users' network conditions for product testing and customer support.

• It can probe the link up to ten times per second and record up to 100,000 data points

• Probe may be any size between 28 and 65535 bytes.

• The data saved by the Recorder can be reviewed and edited



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Recording Playback



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Recording Playback...

• Playback the recordings separately in each direction.

• Different recordings can be used in each direction or a recording can be used in one

direction with regular, non-recorded delay and loss parameters in the other direction.



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Save and Restore



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Save and Restore…

• The configuration of a selected Emulation Engine can be saved to a file.

• The stored configuration file can then be loaded into any Emulation Engine through Restore tab.

• The restore operation overwrites the current configuration of the Engine.



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Command Line Interface

• Provides a command line interface (CLI) in addition to browser-based graphical user interface that

can be accessed via the CONSOLE interface or through a Telnet or SSH connection.

• Provides the following subset of the functionality available in the IPNetSim™ GUI

Configure emulation parameters of any path

Turn emulation on or off for any engine

Configure the management IP address, subnet mask, and default gateway

• Following management and troubleshooting features are only available through the CLI:

ARP and PING commands

Reinitialize the unit to factory settings



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Graphs

• Throughput graphs of traffic over any path are shown in the main window.

• The graph can show the throughput in either direction of a path or both directions together.

• Throughput for traffic that bypasses emulation can also be graphed.



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Statistics

• Displays statistics for each path, as well as for bypass traffic.


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Document Number IPN600-1.3-08 1 818 West Diamond Avenue - Third Floor, Gaithersburg, MD 20878 Phone: (301) 670-4784 Fax: (301) 670-9187 Email: [email protected]