ImpairNet™

4-ports 1GE, 4-ports 10GE, or 2-ports 40GE in a single slot
ImpairNet™ is the industry's highest-density 1GE, 10GE, 40GE test module for emulating real-life network impairments. Test modules offer unparalleled scaling, ease-of-use, and measurement accuracy and can be used to test a variety of applications that run over the WAN network. Key Features
Key Features
- High density 1GE, 10GE, and 40GE
- Realistic, high-scale WAN emulation
- Hardware-based impairment generation
- Works alongside other Ixia load modules in the same chassis
- Integration with traffic generation, protocol emulation, and analysis
Product Benefits
Maximize ROI
- Scale port counts with the highest port density in the industry
- Use less ports to simulate ultra-high latency: 500ms at 40GE, 600ms at 10GE, and 6s at 1GE
- Leverage a single hardware chassis for traffic load modules and ImpairNet
Shorten your time to test
- Use IxNetwork and IxLoad for integrated control-plane and data-plane traffic generation with impairment
- Quickly configure traffic flows and apply impairment
- Automate your tests using built-in Test Composer support
- Analyze measurements with the powerful StatViewer interface
Test with superior accuracy and deterministic behavior
- Achieve 1GE, 10GE, 40GE line-rate impairments across all frame sizes (64 to 9180 byte frames) with no packet loss
Additional Ixia impairment solutions:
- Anue Network Emulator - Network impairment emulation and testing for 1GE, 10GE SONET/SDH, OTN, fibre channel, or CPRI networks






