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About 15 years or so ago, we looked at buying a hardware appliance that would let you build and simulate virtual networks with all sorts of different characteri
by LgWoodenBadger 4y ago
About 15 years or so ago, we looked at buying a hardware appliance that would let you build and simulate virtual networks with all sorts of different characteristics. Packet loss, latency, etc.
We developed software for retail point of sale systems, and some of the stores we had to support had all sorts of awful infrastructure, both inside the store and between the store and the “rest of the world.”
I can’t remember the name, but I believe it was an Israeli company, and the device was programmed/configured through Visio (iirc).
- baruch 4y agoThat was Shunra, I worked there for a brief time. It was sold to HP at some point and I don't know what happened to the product afterwards.
- awestroke 4y agoIt was probably incorporated into HP's consumer printers
- bombcar 4y agoOften with amazingly crappy internet what you want are "one packet wonders" - do everything possible in single packets, so that if one gets through you win.
- luma 4y agoThese products were typically known as "WAN emulators" and were pretty commonly used in the exact situation you describe: developing large scale distributed systems that were going to be used over unreliable connections. This functionality is now available in the Linux kernel via netem and is accessible via the `tc` command.