Superna Partners With Apposite to Test Storage Network Equipment

April 10, 2012 - PRLog -- Apposite® Technologies and Superna today announced a partnership whereby Superna will use Apposite’s Netropy network emulator to qualify the interoperability of storage network products to the specifications of storage equipment vendors.

Apposite Technologies is the leader in network simulation products to test the performance of enterprise networking application. Apposite’s Netropy network emulators simulate WAN bandwidth, delay, packet loss, and other impairments that can impact system performance when connected over a wide-area network.

With the increasing use of storage network technology to connect multiple data centers separated by hundreds or thousands of miles, it has become critical to ensure that the storage systems remain properly synchronized and that performance is maintained despite adverse network conditions.

Superna operates a test lab to validate that storage area network products, including WAN optimization and backup and disaster recovery systems, meet the standards for performance and interoperability set by market leading storage vendors (Click to see Testing Services offered https://gallery.emc.com/docs/DOC-2382). These requirements include the ability to perform reliably over long distances, as well as resiliency to bandwidth limitations and packet loss that can occur between sites.

To run these performance tests, Superna selected Apposite’s Netropy 10G2, which provides advanced emulation capabilities for links up to 10 Gbps.

“The Netropy 10G2 is perfect for ensuring that new products work seamlessly with the storage arrays,” says Andrew MacKay, CTO of Superna. “There’s really no other enterprise-class emulator that can handle 10 Gbps of traffic at the level of precision we need to ensure trustworthy results.”

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Apposite Technologies is the manufacturer of high-quality, easy-to-use, network simulation products. Apposite's Linktropy WAN emulators simulate network bandwidth, latency, and loss to test the performance of applications in the lab.