DARPA announced in June 2014, that the DRC Finals would have a different structure than the Trials. In particular, Communications will be further degraded and intermittent forcing the robots to act more autonomously in completing their tasks. After reviewing the capabilities of all IWL’s Maxwell Network emulation products, the Maxwell Pro was chosen for its advanced programmatic capabilities …

On May 12, 2015 IWL’s CEO Chris Wellens presented to the Silicon Valley Automotive Open Source Meetup on the campus of Mentor Graphics to automotive professionals. She covered the testing of ECU and related modules, along with Infotainment and Assisted Driver systems …

New Echo Server for Maxwell Pro TCP Test Environment

Instrument a TCP or UDP stack so that it responds to input streams in minutes, not hours. The new Echo Server provides support for Windows, OS X, Linux, and BSD systems …

Revision 19 of Mini Maxwell and Maxwell G is now in BETA

New packet filters have been added to Mini Maxwell and Maxwell G …

Joost van Dongen of Ronimo-Games blogged about how his team uses throttling to reduce network errors for the Awesomenauts online multiplayer game. First, IWL has a team of network protocol engineers and developers. We are not game developers! We would not presume to tell anyone how to design a game. It seems that we may have a “clash of contexts”, in that game developers and network protocol engineers start with different assumptions and contexts …

Right now an increasing number of developers are deploying their applications via the cloud. In fact, Gartner predicts that the world-wide public cloud services market will reach an astonishing $287 billion by 2017. Unfortunately, many application developers are jumping head first into the cloud without realizing that there are a number of things that could go wrong …

Do you know how SilverCreek compares against other SNMP Agent Test Tools? Find out what the expert learned using five of the available SNMP agent test tools. Not all of them found bugs! One reported false positives! …

As both the CTO of IWL and an attorney, the recent report of the SSL failure in the iOS code concerns me, but not for the reasons in the tech press. This incident once again raises the question of why software seems immune from the laws of liability that apply to other kinds of products? …

We have published a small Python program that may be used to drive a Mini Maxwell directly without the need for a user to operate the Mini Maxwell web pages. This program is an alternative to the spreadsheet based facility that has been available to script Mini Maxwell …

A new Maxwell plugin that can do user controlled re-sequencing of packets is available as part of the latest Maxwell TCP testing package. The plugin is able to re-arrange packets in a flow so that, for example, packets that originate in sequence A, B, C, D, E, F will arrive in the order C, B, A, D, F, E. The plugin allows user control of the re-sequence pattern and several other parameters …