"With Mini Maxwell, we spend more time testing and less time managing our test tools and equipment."

Mini Maxwell, the portable network emulator, helps iBASEt test product performance under adverse network conditions.

Frank Heinrich
Chief Technical Officer
iBASEt

As Chief Technical Officer at iBASEt, Frank Heinrich must ensure a responsive user experience. iBASEt produces Solumina(TM), Operations Process Management software, used for discrete manufacturing, primarily in the aerospace industry.

"Our customers deploy our Solumina(tm) software in a wide variety of environments, including high performance local LANs, internal multi-site WANs and remote users who connect in over the public internet," said Frank Heinrich.

"Our developers always work in a high performance LAN environment, so before release, we have a challenge insuring that our software delivers acceptable performance over the full range of customer environments."

"We are using Mini Maxwell to confirm that both our browser-delivered and rich Windows client software configurations deliver a responsive user experience in the face of higher latency networks. We also use Mini Maxwell to confirm robustness in the face of network errors."

"Previously, iBASEt has conducted network impairment testing using BSD Dummynet and Linux NistNet based test environments. Both of these approaches operate as routers and require us to reconfigure our test systems, network, and servers to route traffic through the test impairment subnets. With Mini Mawell, I can hand any of our testers a small hardware appliance to insert between his workstation and the network, and download a pre-established test configuration, and the tester is up and running their same exact tests, but now in an impaired test environment. Mini Maxwell's web-based Graphical User Interface is far easier to understand and use than the arcane command line configurations in our previous environments. With Mini Maxwell, we spend more time testing and less time managing our test tools and equipment," Frank said.

Visit iBASEt and the Solumina software for Operations Process Management at www.solumina.com