iTrinegy launched Gen III of its INE Network Emulator range, with a unique, easy to use, programming language that finally gives customers the ability to push the boundaries of application performance testing, by “programming” the emulator to perform any required action on the incoming or outbound data-stream.

This gives control of the data packets and thus the ability to emulate all types of networks and network devices.

This new programming ability greatly increases the applicability of iTrinegy’s network emulator range beyond simple fixed wired network emulation (eg WAN, DSL, MPLS etc) to many other network types, including the full range of wireless networks which are often dynamically changing from 2G to 3G and 4G, and then WiFi (802.11 g, n and ce). Couple this with the INE’s ability to combine many different network types simultaneously and you get a full and true network in a box capability, no matter what the network requirement is.

“What we have achieved with this programming capability is to give our customers total control over their applications’ packets in the test network, giving them a truly customizable network emulator” said Frank Puranik, Product Director at iTrinegy. “This gives them greater control when testing their applications and allows them to experiment and test a wide variety of real-world as well as extreme scenarios.”

All iTrinegy Network Emulators allow the reconstruction of any real world networks in a test environment ensuring that the applications being built or deployed will function under all the adverse (or good) conditions experienced in a real customer network environment.

This new programming ability offers users highly desirable capabilities such as:

- testing the robustness of Video over IP by easy targeting of key video frames

- testing custom delay and loss algorithms

- experimenting with load balancing

- an ability to test custom QoS handling and prioritization algorithms