Solution Detail
Wired/Wireless, Dedicated-Link, Video and Application Impairments
Bring circuits, wired/wireless access, conferencing, surveillance, office and information systems into the lab during construction/upgrades to validate quality, resilience, recovery and evidence collection.
Core Emulation Equipment
Products
4
Scenarios
7
Evidence
PCAP
Why
Campuses carry office, conferencing, surveillance, access/IoT, training support, duty and logistics systems with different tolerances for bandwidth, delay, loss, jitter, switching and recovery. Device availability and one connectivity test cannot reveal congestion, roaming interruptions, circuit variation, video stalls or slow access.
Emulate network conditions—access differences, building aggregation, exits, circuits, video uplinks, regional access and backup switching—rather than sensitive workflows. Controlled impairments, background traffic, replay and passive evidence expose architecture, QoS, redundancy, retry and capacity weaknesses before launch.
For new-build acceptance, upgrade comparisons, selection, video assurance, surveillance links, pre-release applications and emergency exercises. The scope is general network engineering and reliability, excluding sensitive workflows, topologies and restricted data.
Topology
How
Separate office wired, wireless, building aggregation, core, gateways, circuits, conferencing, surveillance and application paths. Define RTT, loss, jitter, micro-outage, recovery and bandwidth thresholds as baselines.
Use ChaosBridge for roaming jitter, aggregation congestion, circuit delay variation, outages, bandwidth reductions, burst loss and reordering. Profiles describe network conditions without sensitive application data and can be reused for acceptance and exercises.
Generate varied sizes, rates, addresses, ports and bursts alongside real office, video and transfer workloads. Observe switches, firewalls, gateways and wireless controllers at peak load.
Replay slow-access, video, login or jitter samples with address/port rewriting and rate control. Flow Hunter analyzes sessions, protocol stages and captures during replay and exercises.
Save profiles, traffic models, curves, sessions, PCAPs and thresholds as deployment gates. Repeat after device replacements, link changes, system upgrades or before major events.
Product Stack
Core Emulation Equipment
Optional Supporting Tools
NetAccura Traffic Generation
Generate L2-L3 test streams. Software models also replay Ethernet PCAPs, rewrite IPv4 addresses and TCP/UDP ports, and multiply traffic for performance, security detection and issue reproduction. Stop all transmit tasks before switching modes. Simultaneous generation and replay require separate devices.
BestPerf
Actively measure RTT, directional loss, jitter, micro-outages, TCP goodput and quality under load to establish link baselines.
Flow Hunter
Capture passively through mirrored ports or TAPs for L2-L7 analysis, session investigation, protocol-stage diagnosis and PCAP export.
Result
Find wired/wireless, aggregation, circuit, gateway and video-uplink limits under impairments before users encounter stalls, disconnects or slow access.
Reuse the same profiles, loads, samples and thresholds so builders, operators and vendors align on fault boundaries.
BestPerf supplies active curves and Flow Hunter supplies sessions/PCAPs, enabling replay, retests and evidence instead of descriptions alone.
Deliver more than throughput or delay figures: include topology, parameters, timelines, quality curves, key sessions, anomalies, PCAP extracts and retest results. Development, testing, operations, vendors and customers can discuss the same evidence rather than relying on screenshots, verbal descriptions and repeated debate.
References
Explains the relationship between end-to-end TCP throughput, RTT, bottleneck bandwidth, buffering and user experience.
For validating throughput, loss, forwarding, frame-size combinations, filtering and behavior under abnormal conditions.
Next Step
NetAccura can create a test topology, parameter table and POC plan based on your links, models, application protocols, available PCAPs and SLA goals.