Agilent unveils testing gear at Supercomm

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: DENISE DUBIE ON NETWORK OPTIMIZATION
06/16/05
Today's focus: Agilent unveils testing gear at Supercomm

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Today's focus: Agilent unveils testing gear at Supercomm

By Denise Dubie

Among the newsmakers at last week's Supercomm was network test
and measurement vendor Agilent Technologies, which showcased
products to test high-speed data, VoIP and video applications
and traffic, as well as tools to ensure network equipment
performs optimally under the load of demanding applications.

Agilent's Network Tester helps network managers simulate in
their test labs "thousands of users of proprietary applications
with different user addresses through a unique dynamic-session
capture-replay capability," Agilent says. The tester can help
labs determine how many proprietary applications and how much
traffic network and security equipment can handle. Agilent says
the software recreates real transport protocol sessions with
unique port numbers and multiplies traffic in a scalable manner.

Network Tester also determines the effectiveness of application
traffic management techniques such as peer-to-peer rate
limiting, Layer 7 "deep packet" classification and tagging, and
application prioritization. The software could help network
managers understand how voice and video traffic will affect
other applications on their network.

A second product, the Agilent N2X "multi-service test solution"
is geared toward equipment vendors and helps manufacturers
determine how to build reliability, scalability and availability
into their products. The company says this test product will
give equipment vendors the tools to ensure their gear can
support data, voice and video traffic on demanding networks.

Lastly, Agilent spotlighted the Distributed Network Analyzer
(DNA) PRO suite at Supercomm. The company says the product
family ties testing of access network technologies into a single
product. Agilent says DNA PRO collects and analyzes voice, video
and data information in real time on a variety of networks, such
as Ethernet, ATM, frame relay and MPLS.

RELATED EDITORIAL LINKS

VoIP analysis tools
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