Maxwell G

The First One Gigabit Network Emulator under $5,000

Set up in less than fifteen minutes
Control from anywhere on the network
Script or web page driven
Invoke rate limitation
Change settings "on the fly" without restarting
Layer 2 device, acts like a bridge -- no special configuration

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The Case for Pre-Deployment Testing

Accurate Network Emulations

Quick Setup -- Instant Results

See how your product behaves in poor network conditions -- before disaster strikes! Are you testing a new product? Designing a network? Deploying a distributed app? It's virtually impossible to anticipate everything that can happen to the data flowing through your network. Yet it's a known fact that corrupted packets can expose hidden vulnerabilities in network devices.

Use Maxwell G to classify traffic into concurrent, multiple flows for realistic emulations. Not all traffic on the local LAN is present on the WAN, and thus should be filtered out for a realistic emulation. For even greater fidelity, apply different impairments (drop, delay, jitter, duplication, reorder, etc.) on each flow and in each direction!

You can also use statistical distributions on the impairments. Need help figuring it out?

Watch the video: Setting up the Maxwell G Hardware for the initial configuration. Once the hardware is set up, the next step is assigning an IP address. Choose from one of four methods as described in the User Guide, assign the new IP address, then enter that same address in your web browser. Now you are ready to go! Maxwell G is designed to operate "headless", so once you have completed the set up, you no longer need a directly attached keyboard, video, and mouse.

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Optimize Application Performance

Emulate your network with new applications, adverse network conditions, and anything else you can think of with Maxwell G

The Maxwell G network emulator will create the same real-world conditions that affect production networks in your lab or on your desktop, so you can visualize and understand the effects. Based on the freely available Netem engine, Maxwell G offers a simple, easy to use, graphical interface to get you up and running quickly.

The Maxwell G network emulator is well suited to training and learning environments, demonstrations and trade shows, and testing, validation and troubleshooting.

Limiting bandwidth to see how your new application will perform on slower network connections, particularly wireless, is one of the most popular applications for Maxwell G.

Learn how a product will perform in mobile, cloud, and WAN networks. Induce the conditions that cause network congestion, slow links, time outs, and many other adverse network conditions. See the effects on the device or application to test, diagnose, and remediate product performance, solve network problems, and learn the limits of device and application performance.

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Setting up Maxwell G Bandwidth Limiting or Rate Limiting Increasing Network Packet Loss Rate Automatically Test a VoIP phone under Adverse Network Conditions Effect of DNS on Application Performance	Causes and Correlation of Network Impairments Rate Limiter vs. Bandwidth Limiter Limitations of ICMP Echo for Network Measurement Network Emulation FAQ Network Protocol Testing Overview

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Simple Setup and Web Interface

Attach Maxwell G at any point in the network without any special configuration. From a web interface, point and click to introduce bandwidth limited conditions or network impairments. Then observe the behavior on applications and devices. In this way, you can quickly and efficiently determine how resilient your product is to the conditions that occur on real-world networks.

Changes occur when submitted - there is no need to restart.

Settings may be saved onto the user's own computer and restored when needed.

Scripting and Autonomous Operation

The current settings may be saved to , and they will be automatically restored when Maxwell G is powered up. This facilitates field operation where it would be inconvenient to have a keyboard, mouse, monitor.

Maxwell G may be scripted from another computer using a spreadsheet of a Python program.

Packet Classification Filters

Maxwell G is able to classify packets on the basis of many IP, UDP, and TCP header fields
Traffic may be classified into as many as five bands in each direction (ten bands total)
Different impairments may be imposed onto each band
Multiple filters may be simultaneously active
Users may create their own filters
Filter changes occur when submitted on the fly, no need to restart