Brought to you by the makers of QualNet, EXata is a wireless emulator that lets you evaluate on-the-move communication networks faster and with more realism than any other emulator. EXata creates a digital network replica that interfaces with real networks in real time, using real applications. Software, hardware, human, and Internet-in-the-loop connections enable ultra-realistic communication over all layers of the network. No more assuming “perfect communications” in your net-centric operations planning — get the real picture with EXata first.

In both military and commercial networks, next generation communication systems are moving us closer together and empowering the individual. In the military context, net-centric systems are moving communications beyond link-based and stovepipe architectures and endeavoring to connect all war fighters, improve situational awareness, and provide a common operational picture.

All networks face common challenges like bandwidth limitations, bottlenecks, security attacks, session management, scalability, traffic congestion, and quality of service trade-offs. Mobile networks face even more challenging issues including terrain, weather, and environmental conditions, spectrum management, mobility effects and limited battery power. EXata is here to address these challenges.

What Sets EXata Apart?

EXata is new evaluation technology for new wireless technologies. EXata is a digital representation of networks – a representation so accurate that a user or component connected to the virtual network can not discern whether it’s connected to the digital representation or the real thing. EXata emulation is not a substitute for existing modeling and simulation; it is a whole new category of evaluation/development tool that does what the other products were not designed to do.

EXata is a realistic software virtual network. EXata enables you to digitally represent your entire network – devices, software, transmitters, antennas, terrain effects, atmospheric effects, and human interaction effects. You can now represent every variable that will affect the performance of your real network in an EXata Software Virtual Network.

EXata empowers you to move from months to minutes. With emulation, network and equipment tests that traditionally required months to perform all the calculations can now be performed in minutes, with real-network behavior.

EXata brings ultra-fidelity at 50 or 5,000 nodes. Competitors’ simulation programs, written with legacy sequential processing code, can only simulate a maximum of about 200 devices, and fidelity drops as you approach that number. With EXata, you get the same accurate representation of your network whether you’re testing 50 nodes or 5,000.

Components of EXata

EXata Architect EXata features an easy drag-and-drop GUI to build network topologies and advanced editors to allow finegrained design of devices and networks. Use the Device Model Editor to build custom communication devices or use pre-built devices like routers, switches, hubs, ATM, wireless access points, base stations, and mobile users. Run emulations and simulations with full control in 2D and 3D. Visualization Controls allow you to monitor Components of EXata emulation progress and control per-layer & per-event animation.

EXata Connection Manager EXata comes in two parts: the main EXata emulation engine that creates a digital replica of your target network, and the Connection Manager that runs on your operational systems. Applications use the Connection Manager to run their network traffic over the EXata network. Most importantly, Connection Manager makes EXata’s advanced emulation technology easy and simple to use. Applications need no modification or customization to use the realistic emulated network in EXata.

EXata Analyzer Both Architect and Analyzer have powerful analysis and debugging tools that allow you to get to the bottom of network problems. You can monitor the values of an important parameter, or view dynamic graphs of critical performance indicators like received signal strength or uplink/downlink bandwidth. EXata also provides the flexibility to build customized key performance indicators (KPIs).