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Saving the world from network failure™ InterWorking Lab creates network testing, network emulation, and network optimization products including penetration testing products, WAN emulators, bandwidth emulators, satellite emulators, network traffic testers and network traffic analyzers to improve the quality and operation of voice and data networks. Developers, IT managers, and test engineers use our network testing products, network simulators and network analyzers to find and fix bugs in network devices. Our network emulation products are used for pre-deployment testing, proof-of-concept demonstrations, and "what-if" scenarios. Our network simulators and network traffic analyzers are used by small and medium businesses to optimize their internal network performance. Assuring Product Quality and Integrity Prominent members of the Internet Engineering Task Force, and other notable networking experts serve on our Advisory Board to provide advice and review of our products. This guidance allows us to create the most accurate, thorough, and timely products including penetration testing products, WAN emulators, bandwidth emulators, satellite emulators, network traffic testers and network traffic analyzers that conform to the latest protocol standards. Our network testing, network emulation, and network optimization products and services enable our customers to develop and deploy the highest quality and most reliable network devices and to obtain maximum utility from their networks. InterWorking Labs works with technology experts from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) with special expertise in networking protocols:
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Beginnings InterWorking Labs was co-founded by Marshall Rose and Chris Wellens who met while serving on the Interop Program Committee. Chris was the Director of Technology for Interop and Marshall was a Working Group Chair in the IETF for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). It was 1992 and both Chris and Marshall were concerned with the poor quality of SNMP implementations. Marshall agreed to create a set of tests if Chris would organize a group of developers into an interoperability test summit. InterWorking Labs was established in 1993 and produced its first SNMP interoperability test summit in January of 1994. A shocking number of implementations failed the majority of the tests and there were only 50 tests! From those beginnings, SilverCreek, the official SNMP Test Suite (or SNMP tester) was created. As of 2007, SilverCreek network tester contains hundreds of thousands of tests that cover protocol conformance, compliance, stress testing, robustness/vulnerability testing, negative, inopportune, and interoperability testing. SilverCreek is used by thousands of users worldwide. From Protocol Tests to Network Emulation The Maxwell and Mini Maxwell network emulators help developers and end users create more realistic network emulation scenarios by providing standard packet impairments, as well as protocol impairments and support for concurrent multiple flows of network traffic. Maxwell supports a set of protocol impairments for TCP/IP, DHCP, ICMP, and SIP testing. From Network Emulation To Network Optimization Through its own use of VoIP phones and participation in SIPIT (SIP interoperability test events), InterWorking Labs uncovered a problem confronting small and medium businesses: voice over IP could not be successful without giving preference to voice traffic over other forms of traffic. iSpeedbump, the bandwidth manager, gives preference to voice traffic so small and medium business users get good voice quality from their local area networks. |
