Cisco Modeling Labs, A Network Simulator With Real IOS Router Images

Cisco presented a laboratory based networking software that design engineers and test networks virtually before deploying the IOS emulators illegal world.Unlike applies to the past as Dynamips allows modeling Labs Cisco is a network simulator that uses Real images of Cisco IOS operating system.The lab provides a virtual environment model in the engineers and simulate networks with virtual images of operating systems, Cisco IOS, IOS-XR and IOS XE.

Engineers can implement the laboratory on a local server and connect to it via a client application.Cisco is promoting the environment as a laboratory for the development of new networks and the solution of existing problems.Given the historical lack of a network simulator based on network hardware real world,most engineers to build a physical network in a laboratory to test and experiment with new configurations topologies.

But employers often can not afford the capital and operating costs of maintaining a laboratory of this kind,Kerravala said.In recent years, Cisco and Juniper Labs cloud-based networks have offered,but had to pay by the hour for access engineers.With Cisco Labs Modeling users can use software from the house and use it as much as they want.Engineers can buy one to three years,depending on the number of virtual nodes that want to use in their simulations,two subscriptions.A subscription includes 15 basic nodes and engineers can buy extensions.