Stu Mitchell is the Enterprise Services Network Manager for the Department of the Interior, where he manages a network supporting 90,000 federal employees and 100,000 volunteers. Stu has worked in Interior for 18 years, including 11 years with the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
This article presents a simple and inexpensive methodology for predicting the
performance of a client/server application over a wide area network. A
network emulator, placed between the client and server, is used to vary key
network properties, such as latency, bandwidth and packet loss. This method
is not meant to replace extensive network modeling tools such as OPNET or
Load Runner, however, it can provide developers with a simple way to explore
the behavior of applications over a wide area network before deployment. For
example, developers will be able to determine performance over a dial-up line
or low-speed frame relay circuit.
The emulator uses the Linux operating system on a PC with built-in emulation
and queuing utilities. The PC is configured to operate in "brid... (more)
Stu Mitchell is the Enterprise Services Network Manager for the Department of the Interior, where he manages a network supporting 90,000 federal employees and 100,000 volunteers. Stu has worked in Interior for 18 years, including 11 years with the National Fish and Wildlife Forensics Laboratory. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering degree from Virginia Tech and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
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