NETWORKING TOOLKIT | Lightwave

The Artifex Networking Toolkit is a library of models of traffic; switching equipment and architectures; quality of service and queuing schemes; and various protocols, including TCP/IP, MPLS, OSPF, IP/WDM, Ethernet, SONET/SDH, and voiceover IP. The software allows systems engineers to model network designs, working with Artifex, which provides modeling and simulation for complex, event-driven systems.

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