WAN Simulators

several years ago, i needed to emulate WAN for the ICA optimization thru WANScaler (now called CloudBridge), and i tried looking for software to simulate WAN behavior. here are the list of those i found in the internet. I evaluated most of them but decided to use WANem.

Frenzy 1.0 (free)
http://frenzy.org.ua/en/

WANem (free)
http://wanem.sourceforge.net/

Dummynet (free)
http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ip_dummynet/

WAN-emu (free)
http://speed.cis.nctu.edu.tw/wanemu/

NISTNet (free)
http://www-x.antd.nist.gov/nistnet/

Netem (free)
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Net:Netem

Shunra (commercial)
http://www.shunra.com/

NetLimiter (commercial)
http://www.netlimiter.com/

PacketStorm (commercial)
http://www.packetstorm.com/

XPIdea WAN Emulator (commercial)
http://www.xpidea.com/Products/tabid/53/ProductID/19/Default.aspx

(this is a repost of my notes from our internal blog system. posting it here for future reference)