Apposite Technologies Linktropy 5500 L5500-2M User Manual

About Apposite Technologies

Apposite Technologies  makes  WAN  emulation  easy  by  offering  professional-quality  network  emulation  tools  at  affordable 

prices. Apposite’s Netropy and Linktropy WAN emulation appliances simulate bandwidth, latency, loss, congestion, and other 

network impairments with fine-grained precision to provide accurate simulations of any 

type of wide-area network. Netropy and Linktropy WAN emulators are 

widely  deployed  by  leading  enterprises,  application  and 

equipment  developers,  telecoms  carriers,  and 

government and military organizations around 

the  world.  Apposite  Technologies  – 

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Linktropy 5500

Linktropy 8500

2 Mbps, 10 Mbps, 45 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1 Gbps 

2 Gbps

1 link

1 million pps

300 bps – maximum rate in 1 bps increments

0 ms – 10 sec. in 0.1 ms increments; constant, uniform, normal distributions

0 – 100% in increments of 0.0001%

0 – 100% in increments of 0.1%

Bit Error Rate, Packet Reordering, Packet Duplication, Queue Depth, Framing Overhead

1 x Gigabit Ethernet, 1 x RS-232 serial console

10 Mbps, 45 Mbps, 100 Mbps, or 1 Gbps 

8 Gbps

4 links

12 million pps

2 Gigabit Ethernet 

(copper or SFP)

8 Gigabit Ethernet 

(8 copper, 8 SFP, or 4 of each)

1 year included

1 x Gigabit Ethernet, 1 x RS-232 serial console

1 year included

1 year included

1 year included