Home > Business Infomation > News Release > details

News Release

2009.02.24

RIKEI STARTS TO SELL APPOSITE TECHNOLOGY'S THE LATEST WAN EMULATOR MODEL LINKTROPY 10-G WHICHI ALLOWS EMULATION OF UP TO 10Gbps WAN LINES.

Rikei Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Katsuei Aoyagi) would like to announce it has started to sell the latest 10Gbps Model Linktropy 10-G which is among WAN Emulator Linktropy series developed and produced by Apposite Technologies, Inc. (Head Office: California, USA, President: DC Palter).

WAN Emulator Linktropy seties are designed to emulate all possible events which may occur WAN lines such as change of bandwidth, time delays, jitters, packet losses, etc. under any test environments to provide assistance in network designing and building.

10Gbps networks, which will become mainstream trends in the future, are expected to play a major role in corporate backbones, data backup, file transfers, telephone conferences. Corporate system administrators and application development engineers are now required to create environments for this purpose by conducting verification tests and resolving troubles. For such persons, the latest model Linktropy 10-G is designed to support up to 10Gbps bandwidth in addition to various functions of previous models of Linktropy series in order to provide the best test environments. It also has the User Interface which can be instinctively and easily used by using a Web browser like previous models, which does not require any special software or training for operation. This will lead to a lot of time and cost savings.

Linktropy 10-G has two 10Gbps links with a CX4 interface and one 1Gbps link with a 10/100/1000BaseT which can be used simultaneously. Jumbo Frame is also supported, making it easy to conduct tests with large packets.

Rikei plans to promote and sell this product actively to system integrators, manufacturers of products related to networks, storage manufacturers, etc. The product has already begun to be shipped with prices ranging from Yen 3,505,000. Prices for other models range from Yen 304,000.

To mark the start of sale of this latest model, Rikei is now performing a sales campaign up to the end of April, 2009, during which period, Linktropy 10G and other Linktropy series models (except Linktropy Mini) are offered at 20% off from standard list prices. You are strongly recommended to make a purchase decision during this period.

About Linktropy Series

Linktropy series are products which are capable of simulating various events on WAN lines by doing settings for bandwidth (300bps - 10G), delay (0 - 10s), packet loss (0 - 100%), etc. As they are reasonably and affordably prices and provide measurement data with high reliability and high precision, they are being used by many businesses, communications carriers, software developers, manufacturers of products related to networks, system integrators, governmental agencies, etc. mainly in North America, Europe and Asia.

About Apposite Technologies, Inc.

Apposite Technologies, Inc. is among top companies in the world, which develops and produces WAN emulators and other products designed to assist in building of networks, supplying them globally. Its headquarters is located California, and its high-level technologies and highly reliable products are highly evaluated by various industries across the world.

URL: http://www.apposite-tech.com/

Rikei Corporation

About this news release:
2nd Network Solutions Dept.:
+81 3 3345 2182 (dial-in) Sakai, Sato

About our business in general:
New Business Development Dept.:
+81 3 3345 2180 (dial-in) Uchiyama
E-Mail: uchiyama@rikei.co.jp

Top og Page