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.

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.

Why Impairment?

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.

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.

Emulate Sustained and Evolving Lunar Networks

Supporting sustained lunar missions will require a reliable communications infrastructure. In current systems, one communications system supports one instrument or device, such as a lunar rover. A cellular network potentially provides the most viable approach, but many challenges must be overcome to get a network of base stations and devices to the moon and then operational.

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.

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.

Network Emulator II™ - Fibre Channel

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.

Network Emulation Fuels 5G Device Availability

Carrier acceptance testing is the next step on the road to 5G. Network emulation solutions accelerate the 5G device acceptance process for mobile network operators and device makers.

IxNetwork Overview—L2/3 Network Infrastructure Performance Testing

With its enhanced real-time analysis and statistics, IxNetwork emulates everything from routing and switching, data center Ethernet and SDN to broadband access and industrial Ethernet for comprehensive testing.

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.

A comparison of Keysight Network Analyzers for Applications < 3 GHz

This selection guide provides specifications and function capabilities for the N9923A FieldFox VNA versus the E5062A ENA-L VNA.

E5061B Network Analyzer, 100 kHz to 1.5 GHz/3 GHz, 5 Hz to 3 GHz

This brochure introduces overview of the E5061B network analyzer, including its RF NA options (100 kHz to 1.5/3 GHz), LF-RF NA option (5 Hz to 3 GHz), and impedance analysis option.

Use Network Emulation to Create Real-World Conditions

Need to create real-world conditions in the lab to strengthen your network resiliency? Discover the features and uses of network emulation.

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.