Why Network Emulator 3?

In this video, meet Keysight Network Emulator 3 — the fastest interface speed network emulator supporting 100GE, 25GE, and 10GE Ethernet impairment platforms. Built with application-aware emulation engines, it delivers precise control over network impairments such as latency, jitter, and packet loss, allowing you to test application performance under real-world network conditions with unmatched accuracy. Watch how it helps you uncover hidden performance issues, debug application behavior, reduce deployment risks, accelerate release cycles, and ensure consistent user experiences before connectivity disruptions ever reach your users.

Network Emulator 3: 100GE, 50GE, 40GE, 25GE, and 10GE Impairment

Effective testing requires a real-world environment that reproduces realistic network conditions and behavior. All software and hardware should be subjected to a realistic test environment before deployment.

Why Impairment?

Network Emulators Catalog

This catalog highlights Keysight’s Network Emulator 2 and Network Emulator 3 solutions, enabling precise replication of real‑world network impairments across 100 MbE to 100GE Ethernet. It provides performance details, use cases, architecture capabilities, and supporting tools for validating application robustness, interoperability, and network resilience before deployment.

Layer 1-3 Network Test Products

Keysight’s Layer 1-3 network test solutions validate and optimize performance and security with high-density traffic generation up to 1.6T Ethernet, real-world application and AI workload emulation, and protocol analysis—ensuring reliability at scale.

DIFI: Satellite Ground Station Digital Modernization Initiative

Advancing interoperability in digital ground technology with the industry's most powerful RF, application and cybersecurity test platforms.

Network Emulator II—Ethernet 10GE, 1GE, and 100MB Impairment

Network Emulator II is a precision test instrument that accurately emulates real network conditions that occur over live production 10GE, 1GE, and 100MbE LAN/WAN networks.

5G Network Emulation Solutions

Delivering high-quality 5G New Radio (NR) devices requires innovative network emulation solutions (NES) for the entire 5G ecosystem, including non-standalone (NSA) and standalone (SA) use cases, sub-6 GHz and millimeter-wave (mmWave) frequencies, and all test domains.

E6966B IMS-SIP Network Emulator

The E6966B IMS-SIP network emulator allows you to efficiently test the performance and functionality of cellular user equipment in an all-IP IMS-SIP environment.

Propsim Channel Emulation Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Testing

Product brochure for Propsim Channel Emulation Mobile Ad-Hoc Network Testing.

Wireless Network Testing and Eval using Real Time Emulation

Provides an alternative approach to network testing and evaluation based on real-time emulation capability of the QualNet simulator, along with an illustrated outline of how a testbed based on real-time emulation can be set up.

Enabling Device Troubleshooting Network Emulation Solutions

Keysight’s device troubleshooting solutions ensure your new high-quality 5G devices are first to market. With this chipset and device-agnostic solution, you can correlate data from multiple sources and effectively analyze and troubleshoot 5G devices under test. This technical overview describes the device troubleshooting features and functionalities.

UE, RAN, and Core Emulators Catalog

Explore the comprehensive range of Keysight UE, RAN, and core network emulators engineered to validate 5G devices, base stations, and end‑to‑end network functions. This catalog highlights UE emulation, RAN emulation, and core network test platforms designed for functional, performance, and interoperability testing across development, deployment, and production environments.

M9485A PXIe Multiport Vector Network Analyzer

This data sheet provides technical specifications for the PXI M9485A PXIe Vector Network Analyzer. This also includes M9376A PXIe VNA Receiver and M9340A PXIe Distributor technical specifications.

Fabric Emulator

The Fabric Emulator product brings the realism of customer networks into experimentation and test workflows, for developers of the next generation of system components.

Network Emulation: Remote Storage and Disaster Recovery Performance Validation

Open the document referenced here to understand how Ixia's Network Emulator solved a large US auto insurance company's remote storage array test challenges.

Keysight Streamline Series Vector Network Analyzer (B-models)

This configuration guide describes standard configurations, options, accessories, upgrade kits and compatible peripherals for Keysight P93xxB and P50xxB Streamline Series Vector Network Analyzers (B-models).

Network Emulator II™ - Fibre Channel

Ethernet Traffic Emulators Catalog

This catalog highlights Keysight’s Ethernet traffic emulation portfolio, including L2–L7 protocol and load test software and high‑performance hardware accelerators for validating next‑generation networking systems, ASICs, AI data center environments, and hyperscale deployments with realistic, repeatable traffic at speeds up to 1.6T.

Validating 1.6T Ethernet and Emulating Real AI Workloads

Learn how AresONE 1600GE enables full-stack validation of next-generation AI infrastructure through high-density 1.6T Ethernet network testing and realistic AI workload emulation. Discover how integrated Layer 1–3 analysis, RoCEv2 traffic emulation, and KAI Data Center Builder software help accelerate network and AI data center validation, scalability, and deployment readiness.