Lanforge Network Traffic Generator and WAN Emulator

Candela Technologies LANforge Fire and ICE, are ideal for field or lab, and use a common GUI to provide both network traffic generation and impairment.

Perform functional, performance (load and stress), interoperability and scalability testing of networks and devices.

Or, specify impairments to simulate WAN, Satellite or Wireless connections to understand how devices and applications will perform.

Network Traffic Generator

LANforge FIRE is used for Traffic Generation and simulates the edge of the network under test. LANforge FIRE can generate FTP, HTTP, VoIP (SIP, RTP, RTCP), TCP/IP, UDP/IP, Ethernet and custom payloads. It supports 802.1Q VLANs, and can also emulate up to 250 Ethernet interfaces with unique MAC and IP addresses, allowing a single LANforge machine to appear as an entire subnet of machines. The WiFi appliance can emulate up to 31 802.11a/b/g wireless stations. Several WiFi appliances will test for the impact of collisions. LANforge also supports the SIP VoIP messaging protocol, and can generate the RTP media stream as well. It can generate and receive traffic up to 999 Mbps per interface.

WAN Emulator

The LANforge ICE configuration is used to simulate the core of a network, and will be used to test and verify equipment that communicates through the core. The LANforge ICE platform is used to simulate T1, DS3, OC-3, OC-12, GigE, DSL, Satellite, Dial-Up, and other Wide Area Networks (WANs).

The LANforge GUI is a Graphical management interface to the LANforge system. The GUI connects to the LANforge server, which automatically discovers any LANforge Data Generators (also called 'cards') on it's management network. Because the connection to the server is a standard TCP/IP interface, the GUI can access the server remotely, even over a dialup connection.