NinjaProbe Precision Data Replay

Mirroring the exponential growth of content replay in mainstream applications, capture/replay capabilities are fast becoming de facto requirements for network operators. With end users demanding both high speed connectivity and an improved quality of experience, operators must be able to recreate the exact characteristics of a customer session for a broad range of network speeds and services.

NinjaProbe’s precision replay capabilities permit network operators to repeat events on their network exactly as they occurred, providing the ability to recreate real network scenarios, identify the cause and effect of alarm conditions, load and test networking and security equipment and actively study user experiences for services like video on demand.

NinjaProbe uses the hardware timestamps appended during the capture process to transmit packets at the same intervals at which they were received. Release rates are user-selectable which allows operators to stress test existing installations with “what-if” higher throughput scenario planning. This is especially useful for performance testing security equipment, to ensure that vulnerabilities exist as packet rates increase.

Data replay capabilities form a key part of any “Quality of Experience” strategy. With service differentiation now coming down to the user’s subjective quality of experience, operators are able to playback traffic streams exactly as the customer saw them for subjective mean opinion score (MoS) determination