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Customer Presentation: Candela Technologies started producing LANforge products and services in 2000. Candela focuses on network testing and emulation solutions. In 2006, Candela started providing WiFi testing solutions.
Gaming Test Demo: Candela Technologies can provide a network that emulates 16 or more WAN clients for online game testing. This includes a mixture of WAN impairments and WiFi connectiviy.
Inflight Entertainment Test Demo: Inflight entertainment poses a high-density, high bandwidth WiFi scenario. LANforge can emulate hundreds of customers streaming media to their devices.
Large Scale Roaming Test: LANforge can emulate stations that decide to roam between a list of access points. This test can exercise your campus deployment by roaming hundreds of stations across your access points.
Mesh Test Presentation: Domestic mesh networks are a popular network backbone for people at home. LANforge can report results of roaming across the nodes in your mesh network.
TR-398 Testing: The TR-398 test plan is a pass/fail matrix of tests that can be used to evaluate the quality of service access points can deliver. LANforge provides automated TR-398 testing.
TR-398 with 3-Node Mesh Testbed: Learn how to create a TR-398 automated testbed with multiple LANforge machines providing 128 virtual stations for testing.
Transportation Test Demo: Getting WiFi on a bus, train or airplane can involve subscription services, identity providers and roaming technologies. LANforge virtual stations can test migrating between these venues and report on throughput and connection quality.
LANforge WiFIRE Sales Presentation: A brief history of Candela Technologies and the feature highlights of LANforge WiFIRE 802.11a/b/g/n/AC Client Simulator with Stateful WiFi Traffic Generation.
LANforge FIRE Sales and Tutorial Presentation: (Classic) LANforge FIRE Stateful Traffic Generator and a demo of configuring LANforge FIRE to run traffic.
LANforge ICE Sales and Demo Presentation: (Classic) Highlights of LANforge ICE emulator features and a short demo on configuring and running LANforge ICE network emulations.
LANforge-GUI Users Guide: Covers the initial setup of the LANforge-GUI and the day to day use of the LANforge system. This document contains useful information on usage for those who wish to use the CLI interface as well.
LANforge CLI Users Guide: Lists all Command Line Interface (CLI) commands available through the TELNET interface, with a description of their use, arguments and syntax.
LANforge-Attenuator Users Guide: Covers the features and day to day use of the LANforge Attenuator system. This document contains useful information on usage for those who wish to use the CLI interface as well.
LANforge-ICEcap Users Guide: Covers the use of the LANforge-ICEcap tool for capturing network characteristics to an XML file. This file can later be replayed by the LANforge-ICE WAN emulator.
Automated Linux Install/Upgrade Instructions: These instructions can automatically install and upgrade most LANforge installations, including the LANforge-Server, GUI, kernel, and OS packages.
LANforge GUI Installation Documentation: This document covers the installation of the LANforge GUI on Windows, Linux and other platforms.
LANforge Server Installation Documentation for ALL platforms: This document covers the installation of the LANforge Traffic-Generator hardware/software. This is intended primarily for those installing the LANforge system onto their own hardware, as Candela Technologies ships all of their components installed and configured.
LANforge Hardware Installation Documentation: This document covers the installation of the LANforge Hardware components.
LANforge wave-2 4x4 WiFi NIC Installation: This document covers the installation of the LANforge wave-2 4x4 WiFi NIC in CT523 and related chassis.
LANforge-ICEcap Installation Documentation: This document covers the installation of LANforge-ICEcap on Linux and Windows.
LANforge CT711 Install Guide: This document covers the installation of the LANforge CT711 RF Noise Generator.
LANforge CT712 Install Guide: This document covers the installation of the LANforge CT712 RF Noise Generator and RADAR Simulator.
Upgrade LANforge GUI on Linux: This document covers upgrading the Linux LANforge GUI.
Upgrade LANforge GUI on Windows: This document covers upgrading the Windows LANforge GUI.
Upgrade LANforge Server on Linux: This document covers upgrading the Linux LANforge Server.
Upgrade LANforge Server on Windows: This document covers upgrading the Windows LANforge Server.
LANforge WiFIRE Cookbook: Covers high-level step-by-step instructions of common LANforge WiFIRE examples of WiFi testing using traffic generation.
LANforge FIRE Cookbook: Covers high-level step-by-step instructions of common LANforge FIRE examples of traffic generation.
LANforge ICE Cookbook: Covers high-level step-by-step instructions of common LANforge ICE examples of WAN emulation.
LANforge Scripting Cookbook: Provides chapters on using bundled Perl scripts and querying JSON API
LANforge CLI Scripting Examples: Some PERL based Command Line Interface (CLI) scripting examples to automate control of the LANforge system using the TELNET interface usually on port 4001.
Various Techniques: Provides techniques and reminders to find and configure OS settings.
LANforge Videos: Video tutorials using LANforge FIRE and LANforge ICE.