IWL's Expert Insights on Network Emulation and Protocol Testing
The Importance of Impairment Testing for Internet Protocol Reliability
The world is an imperfect place. The internet is no exception. The internet has its good days and it has its bad days. Or to be more precise, the internet has its good seconds and its bad seconds.
Blemishes in internet performance arise from many sources …
Waveforms in KMAX
Real network conditions are rarely static. Real life networks suffer transient conditions – congestion builds up and dissipates, tree branches wave in the wind across radio links, long distance routing paths change, VoIP call trunks are filled with more calls during working hours than during the evening.
KMAX and our Maxwell Pro can emulate these kinds of changes …
Stack Overflow is Not a Crutch
You’re better off going straight to StackOverflow.com.
That’s the current situation with many technologies, platforms, SDK libraries and command-line interfaces: the documentation is so badly written, or so poorly organized, or so skimpy, that you can safely skip it and just use Stack Overflow as your answer-it-all search engine …
ESP8266/NodeMCU TCP Test Reveals Issues
The ESP8266 is very popular among the maker set as a platform for experimentation in the realm of Internet of Things (IoT). We have been playing around with the ESP8622 micro-controller running NodeMCU. We’ve been loading simple LUA programs onto the ESP8266 to get familiar with its capabilities …
New Cloud Testing Paradigm Comes With Challenges That Network Emulators Can Solve
The business cloud and its cloud testing capabilities are growing at an extremely fast pace due to scalability, adaptability, cost-effectiveness, and efficiency across nearly every industry. Like anything else when it comes to innovations in technology, though, cloud testing comes with its share of drawbacks …
Network Emulation in the Lab vs. Real-World Network Testing
When evaluating your application for deployment, it is critical to know exactly how it will respond to a variety of network conditions. In some cases, this means going out into the field in search of live, real-world testing scenarios that can be used to test app functionality and user-friendliness …
5 Best Practices to Avoid Data Center Relocation Disaster
Many CEOs and business owners think data center relocation involves the simple process of unplugging of a few servers, some careful packaging, and a secure shipment to the next location. IT professionals know that it’s actually a lot more complicated than that …
Is Network Latency Affecting Your Business’ Cloud Performance?
IDC reports that up to 50% of cloud customers have brought workloads back in house, due to network latency and performance issues, in the cloud. This is an expensive, cumbersome, and counterproductive measure that halts the progress of a company’s technology and growth …
Test Your Mobile App’s Performance
There’s no question about it—any business that wants to stay relevant these days needs to have a mobile app to keep communication flowing between their clients and their organization. Savvy small and mid-sized business owners are aware of this data, and they know they need to invest in an app to keep up in today’s competitive marketplace. What they probably don’t know is that they need you to provide them with an app that works under any and all network conditions …
Testing Cloud Apps and Verifying SLAs: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Enterprise apps are like sports cars: they promise sleek efficiency, but require the right environment to perform optimally. An app may perform well on an enterprise LAN, but will it perform the same when it is deployed in the cloud? …
Is Your Application Ready For the Cloud?
You’ve written an awesome app, and the whole company is banking on how well it does. You’ve done the tests; it has passed QA. It’s exactly what everyone says they need. So your company launches the product, and you wait for the awesome reviews to come rolling in …
Did ASUS X99 Motherboard Testing Miss The Mark?
ASUS, a well-known electronics manufacturer, has launched a new motherboard, the X99-A/USB 3.1, primarily targeted towards the online gaming industry wherein players participate over the internet. As online video games rely on highly responsive UDP packets, ASUS has set out to verify, assure and prove that its product would perform extremely well in this dimension …