Solutions for Testing and Validation

Firewalls, NATs, and web proxies are known to pose serious challenges to anyone deploying VoIP, Unified Communication, SIP-trunking and videoconferencing solutions. Users expect services with high reliability, excellent quality of service (QoS) and security. Solutions that fail due to changing and unknown network topologies are costly or impossible to deploy and are at a clear disadvantage in the marketplace.

Understanding the impact of firewalls and NATs is the necessary first step when analyzing, planning and addressing network traversal challenges.

"PANE greatly simplifies network testing in our automatic testlab. With PANE, we are able to switch testing scenarios instantly with no re-cabling and thereby improve test coverage and reduce testing time. Efficient reuse of expensive equipment is an extra bonus"

Videoconferencing QA Manager

PANE has been developed to help organizations efficiently test and verify solutions in different firewall, NAT, web proxy and network environments. Traffic between two communicating entities can instantly be routed across different paths – each containing a network device and with configurable network delay, jitter and packet loss. A path in PANE consists of an emulated or physical network device. A multitude of paths can be configured in one PANE installation.

PANE consists of a set of predefined paths that emulates different NAT and firewall types, including symmetric, port restricted, and UDP-blocked. Other emulators can be configured. In addition, PANE paths can utilize physical network devices from different firewall and NAT vendors.

Any IP-based application on any device and operating system can connect to and utilize PANE.