Apposite Releases Linktropy Mini WAN Emulator

Apposite™ Technologies today announced the release of the Linktropy™ Mini, a portable, low cost version of the Linktropy WAN emulator. The Linktropy Mini emulates wide area network links of up to 100 Mbps at a price of only $1975.

The Linktropy Mini emulates link bandwidth, delay, jitter, packet loss, and other basic network impairments, and was especially designed to meet the needs of sales professionals, sales engineers, and product resellers to demonstrate the performance of their own networking applications at customer sites and trade shows.

An intuitive, browser-based interface makes installation and configuration of the Mini quick and easy, and allows users to grasp the test conditions at a glance. A traffic monitor displays throughput graphs and statistics, helping to visualize application performance. The compact, set-top box form factor and light weight make the Linktropy Mini highly portable, and with no moving parts, the Mini offers silent operation and high reliability, even with frequent shipping between sites.

The Linktropy Mini is already in use by Citrix® Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CTXS) and other select Apposite partners. “The Mini is a perfect combination of size and features for our partners and sales engineers to take to customer sites and demonstrate the effectiveness of Citrix WANScaler™ for accelerating application performance over different link speeds and latencies,” said Jimmy Chang, senior product marketing manager for Citrix WANScaler. “We are impressed that the Mini takes only seconds to setup, and its integrated WAN performance monitor helps to sell our product.”

“Salespeople at many of our partners have long expressed their appreciation for the simplicity and ease of use of the Linktropy WAN emulators, but told us they needed a version that was portable and extremely inexpensive,” explained DC Palter, Apposite President. “We’ve now met that challenge with the release of the new Linktropy Mini.”

For high-precision lab testing, Apposite also offers the rack-mount Linktropy 4500 and 7500 series WAN emulators, built with the high level of precision, performance, and functionality required by network managers, application developers, and test professionals. Linktropy WAN emulators have been widely deployed by enterprise network managers, software developers, networking equipment manufacturers, telecom carriers, test labs, and military and government network designers.

The Linktropy Mini is in stock and available for immediate delivery from Apposite and its local resellers.

About Apposite Technologies

Apposite Technologies makes WAN emulation easy by offering high-precision network emulation tools at reasonable prices. Apposite’s Linktropy WAN emulation appliances simulate bandwidth, latency, loss, and other network impairments at up to 1 Gbps with fine-grained precision to provide accurate simulations of terrestrial, wireless, satellite, internet, or any other type of wide-area network. Apposite Technologies – WAN Emulation Made Easy.

For more information, see Apposite’s website at http://www.apposite-tech.com.

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