Introduction

A network simulator mimics the behavior of networks but cannot connect to real networks. NetSim Emulator enables users to connect NetSim simulator to real hardware and interact with live applications.

Emulation: How Simulation interacts with the real world

A real PC (running NetSim Emulation Client) sends live traffic to the PC (running NetSim Emulation Server). Whenever a packet arrives at the interface of server, this packet is “modulated” into a simulation packet and sent from a source node (user selectable) in the simulated network (user configurable) to a destination node (again user selectable). Upon receipt of this packet at the destination, the packet is then “de-modulated” and sent back to a real PC destination node (running NetSim Emulation Client). The real packet thus undergoes network effects such as delay, loss, error etc. created virtually by NetSim Simulator.