Is IxChariot an app or a device? From: Simon Westlake Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 8:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Proving performance
IxChariot allows you to deploy an endpoint into AWS, which I guess the customer could control. Probably the easiest but not necessarily the cheapest. Otherwise, I suppose you could hypothetically hack something together which runs Speedtest.net and takes a screenshot, maybe using something like http://www.seleniumhq.org/ but I think it would be low on the fun scale and high on the doesn't work very well scale. That's a bit of a double edged sword though, if the test fails because the endpoint is not providing enough throughput/failing, how do you troubleshoot it? On 8/5/2015 9:33 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: It has to be something on someone else�s network.� It has to withstand allegations that we cooked the tests. � From: Simon Westlake Sent: Wednesday, August 05, 2015 8:22 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Proving performance � There are a lot of tools out there like this, they are used a ton by carriers/mobile providers etc for testing site to site. Not horribly-super expensive (few hundred bucks for the device), but you have to provide the endpoint to test to. I've used Ixia for this in the past, something like http://www.ixiacom.com/products/ixchariot but it is probably slightly more expensive. On 8/5/2015 9:19 AM, Chuck McCown wrote: I need a client that I can place at a customer location that periodically does a stress test and logs the results.� Like to know CIR of up and down as well as latency.�� Need to have it work with something like speedtest or something else not on our network.�
