Exata
Exata Network Emulator: The Network Digital Twin Ecosystem
Product Overview: Realism, Risk Reduction, and Resilience
A Network Digital Twin is a high-fidelity computer model of your entire communication network, including its operating environment and application traffic. This powerful digital representation is the core of the Exata Network Emulation platform.
Exata allows you to digitally represent the interplay among communication protocols, device configurations, network topology, application traffic, the physical environment, and any cyber threats. This enables you to study the behavior of your physical network counterpart in a low-cost, zero-risk environment.
The resulting real-time network digital twins are used to improve management, performance, and cyber resilience across all domains, from commercial IoT to complex military networked systems operating from seabed to space.
QualNet enables users to
- Evaluate the performance of communication networks under different operational conditions.
- Identify and mitigate operational issues before deployment.
- Analyze network performance by creating a scenario model, executing it, and analyzing the results.
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Key Benefits of Using a Network Digital Twin
- CPU
- MEMORY
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Powered by the 8085 microprocessor operating at 3.072 MHz, ensuring stable performance for training and experimentation.
Supports up to 64KB memory (32KB EPROM and 32KB RAM) with a battery backup option for RAM, making it reliable for extended use.
The trainer kit comes preconfigured with 16KB EPROM and 8KB RAM for immediate use and easy upgrades.
- Key Features
- Product Ecosystem
Implementing a network digital twin provides a strategic advantage by reducing cost, accelerating deployment, and enhancing security:
- Reduce Cost & Lead Times: The use of the digital twin reduces recurring costs and shortens lead times for analysis, testing, and optimization.
- Zero-Risk Testing: The framework enables rigorous testing of a large number of networks in a low-cost, lab-based setting with a small hardware footprint. This minimizes the risk when fielding frequently changing network devices and programs.
- Cyber Resilience Validation: The digital twin can respond exactly like a live network, playing a crucial role in testing cybersecurity and defending networked systems against evolving cyber threats.
The Network Digital Twin solution provides a comprehensive framework for network emulation and analysis
Component | Function |
Scenario Designer | Define the network’s topology, traffic, device configurations, environment, mobility, and cyber threat profiles. |
Exata Engine | The core execution environment where experiments are run, including hardware-in-the-loop (HWIL) and other simulation mappings. |
Model Developer | Tools to develop new or enhance existing models within the library. |
Visualizer | Provides a dynamic operational view of the network as the scenario runs. |
Inspector | Allows you to inspect and debug configurations at runtime. |
Analyzer | Define and generate metrics, creating reports in tabular and graphical form, which can be generated using external tools such as Excel or Tableau. |
