Components

  • PolyBox
  • Used for test management, monitoring, and control. PolyBox harnesses a network of drones to generate traffic.

  • drone
  • A drone simulates some number of HTTP clients or servers, the behavior of which is controlled by a PolyBox.

This figure illustrates (roughly) the layout of a PolyBox-based test bench:

Highlights of PolyBox:

  • Based on the popular Web Polygraph benchmarking tool
  • Simple, browser-based user interface
  • Use PolyBox from any computer with a web browser
  • Realistic, stressful traffic
  • Simulation of routed networks
  • Thousands of unique IP addresses
  • Extensive simulation control
  • Detailed, accurate measurements

View screenshots of the PolyBox interface.

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