A WAN emulator appliance is the most reliable and practical way to validate application performance, because users can quickly configure and deploy test networks within a lab setting. These test networks can mimic the exact conditions of a live production network found within the WAN.

However, many industry changes like 5G wireless, 8K streaming video, cloud migration, and high-speed storage networking are all pushing vendors, enterprises, and service providers to roll-out faster speed interfaces. This puts organizations in a tricky situation when it comes to selecting a WAN emulation appliance to meet future requirements. Do you opt for a unit with a larger bandwidth with a greater upfront investment, or pick a smaller unit and save money in the short term?

Fortunately Apposite Technologies, a leading provider of WAN emulator appliances, have lowered the prices on their higher-speed WAN Emulator interfaces and also released new bandwidth-limited options on their Netropy range. This offers organizations a great migration path from 1Gbps to 10Gbps, and also, from 10Gbps speeds to 100Gbps.

Customers can buy the bandwidth limited appliance for their current project, and then later upgrade their Netropy appliance to support higher speeds as new projects arise.