[j-nsp] experience with modeling tool

[Eric Van Tol]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: juniper-nsp [mailto:juniper-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf
> Of Phil Bedard
> Sent: Wednesday, December 24, 2014 11:41 AM
> To: jjsyed at aol.com; juniper-nsp at puck.nether.net
> Subject: Re: [j-nsp] experience with modeling tool
> 
> Junosphere doesn't do that type of modeling and simulation but WANDL
> does.  Juniper may be working on Junosphere/WANDL integration now that
> they own WANDL. They used to support Cariden MATE within Junosphere but
> stopped when Cisco bought Cariden.
> 
> WANDL will certainly do what you want, I would talk to your sales rep
> about it.  The other popular tools are Cariden MATE now owned by Cisco
> and OpNet now owned by Riverbed.
> 
> Cariden was the easiest to use in my previous experience.

All these are great until you see the price tag.  If you're a huge telco or NSP and money is no object, go for it.  It might be better for most smaller shops to just purchase some Junosphere time, as there is a virtualized WANDL VM that can be hooked up to your topology in Junosphere.

-evt