Albedo:
Net.Storm:
The NetStorm generates those perturbances typical of IP and Carrier Ethernet to test applications, devices and protocols that should be tolerant with packet delay, jitter, loss, duplication, reordering, error and bandwidth variations. Testing has become an important topic during the IP convergence, because of the diversity of underlying technologies, and the adaptive behavior of applications. NetStorm facilitates the verification of new applications, services and nodes through emulation of the real nature of IP networks.
NetStorm is a tool for developers debugging
new IP equipment, acceptance test laboratories, design and configuration of unified Ethernet/IP networks, QoS/QoE test, HDTV, IPTV, VoIP, Internet radio, Video Streaming, VPN data, High Speed Internet, Satellite and Undersea traffic applications. All of them that may suffer the network conditions found on the Internet and enterprise. NetStorm enables engineers to model and modify arbitrary performance dynamics including packet delay, jitter, bandwidth limitations, congestion, packet loss, errors and duplication on live IP packets. This tool is being used by big operators, acceptance labs and universities to test Multiplay applications including Critical Data Access, Internet, VoIP, IMS, and IPTV and the associated nodes such as routers, VoIP hand sets, VoIP PBXs, set-top boxes and VoD servers.
The demands that applications make of networks vary widely, often relying on near-real-time characteristics that differ fundamentally from the best-effort delivery typically provided by current networks. As a consequence, applications and protocols increasingly employ adaptive mechanisms to make more intelligent use of available network resources. However, these too present new testing challenges as the correct behaviour of adaptive STB's cannot be defined statically or often even in any simple deterministic fashion; and adaptive protocols at different levels or in different systems may interact poorly with each other in ways not easily detectable while testing in isolation.
ALBEDO Telecom has designed Net.Storm to address this growing diversity of network hardware and software and to provide a controlled, reproducible environment for testing nodes, protocols and terminals used in the new IP applications. Net.Storm is a simple, fast, hardware based Ethernet/IP network emulator that provides the ability to generate common network effects such as packet loss, duplication, delay, congestion, packet errors and bandwidth limitations. It is designed to offer sufficient capabilities and performance to reproduce a wide range of network behaviours up to 1 Gbps rates with accuracy always better than 1 ms. Operating at the Ethernet layer, Net.Storm can emulate the critical end-to-end performance characteristics imposed by core routers and carrier switches and by any underlying network technology:
Airtrace Ltd. currently provide full pre and post sales support for this product. Fo more information on our current support levels, processes and technical assistance standards please visit out support page. In the unlikely event that the issue cannot be solved quickly and efficiently by our staff, a hotline to the development team shall be made available.
Airtrace Ltd. are the UK distributor of both the Albedo NetStorm and AT-2048 products.
Telephone: +44 (0)1409 211 424
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Albedo - Company Description:
Albedo Telecom is a manufacturer of test, measurement and monitoring solutions for the telecom industry. They facilitate mobile and telecom operators - the installation, troubleshooting and maintenance of those infrastructures that are supporting voice, video, internet and data services. ALBEDO core expertise range from SyncE, GbE, E1, TDM, Jitter/Wander, QoS, SLA implemented on WAN emulators, Wirespeed Taps, Testers, and Systems. Airtrace are the UK Vendor for both the Albedo Net.Storm and AT-2048 products.
