Wide Area Link Emulator 2.0

WALE is a Wide Area Link Emulator which gives the flexibility of setting various parameters of a bottleneck link, such as packet send and receive rates, send/receive buffers, send/receive propagation delays, enabling random loss modules, etc.<br /><br />Any ISP has a high bandwidth LAN (of the order of tens of Mbps, e.g. Ethernet) and a WAN access link with relatively low speeds (of the order of a few Kbps to a few Mbps). To be able to evaluate the ISP's performance, actual tests will have to be conducted on a live, fully functional network. This would imply enabling certain features in communication equipment which could be detrimental to the proper functioning of a commissioned network. To address such a problem of being able to characterize/quantify the network operation in terms of its performance with respect to various parameters, a test-bed emulating the ISP's connectivity to the Internet would be an ideal solution.

Requirements:	No special requirements
Platforms:	*nix, Linux
Keyword:	Commissioned,  Communication,  Conducted,  Connectivity,  Detrimental,  Emulating,  Equipment,  Features,  Fully,  Functional,  Functioning,  Imply,  Internet,  Network,  Proper,  Solution,  Testbed
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