Network Modeling Empowered by Digital Twins

Digital twins, virtual replicas of physical networks, offer a unique combination of real-time data, safe experimentation, and scalability, making them a powerful choice for modern network modeling and management. Keysight EXata is a cost-effective network digital twin solution that lets you analyze, test, and optimize network behavior in a safe lab environment.

EXata minimizes hardware needs and lets you visualize and test configurations, reducing risks from network changes. High-fidelity protocol models facilitate simulations letting you predict network performance. Integrating with existing tools and Keysight products, EXata delivers the most comprehensive network testing and optimization available.

Explore the Future of Network Modeling

Watch our 2-minute video to explore how digital twins revolutionize the way we predict and optimize communication networks. See the real-world transformation of antenna design and signal quality with Keysight EXata.

Network Modeling — Defense Solutions

In today's modern era of modern warfare spanning land, sea, air, space, and cyber realms, network integration is crucial. Keysight EXata network modeling delivers advanced design and analysis tools, including a Military Radio Library, Joint Network Emulator, Underwater Network Library, and Cyber Attack Library for developing testing, and deploying resilient wired and wireless networks and communication equipment.  

Specializing in multi-domain network solutions, EXata excels in analyzing operational characteristics and components of proposed and deployed networks. It crafts the highest-fidelity simulation models, detailed test scenarios, and procedures that yield predictive results for target networks or network-enabled systems with rapid turnaround. EXata supports waveform and network testing, standards conformance testing, and network management— including large-scale DOD tests  like the Network Integrated Evaluations (NIEs) and JTRS networking waveforms, such as SRW, WNW MOUS, and WINT, as well as legacy radio platforms like SINCGARS and EPLARS.  

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Network Modeling - 5G/Non-Terrestrial Networks

As 5G advances beyond LTE, penetrating domains like Satellite Non-Terrestrial Networking (NTN), its impact spans various industries from telemedicine to smart cities to intelligent vehicle communications, It promises to revolutionize IoT and autonomous systems supporting critical infrastructure, while enhancing tactical communications for the military and first responders. EXata offers essential analysis capabilities to ensure network resiliency — considering factors like terrain, channel characteristics, user density.  

In a competitive space and satellite industry, timely validation of designs and risk mitigation are crucial. EXata addresses these needs through virtual models of data, voice, and video networks, including satellites and ground stations. Our 5G and NTN libraries model real-world constellations using Two Line Elements (TLE) data with our dynamic Satellite Viewer. 

Network Modeling — Smart Factories

The Keysight commitment to innovation expands as we integrate ray-tracing capabilities into our urban propagation models and collaborate with third-party tools, empowering customers to accelerate product development. Network modeling with EXata provides precise measurements, informing engineering decisions and enhancing interconnected processes for a competitive edge. 

The factory floor's intricate electromagnetic environment requires advanced tools like ray tracing and custom noise models. Concurrently, smart factories require seamless integration of robots and intelligent machinery, optimizing production through continuous communication with controllers and supervisory systems. As industries transition to digital-first workflows, the role of AI-driven decision-making and data utilization becomes increasingly pivotal in driving superior product development. 

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Network Modeling — Critical Infrastructure

To safeguard critical infrastructure, predicting network behavior during cyber attacks is paramount. EXata Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) empowers organizations to anticipate system responses, enabling proactive measures for ongoing cyber resilience. Potential threats and bottlenecks within critical systems are identified early on, mitigating the risk of network disruptions and slowdowns and ensuring uninterrupted operations. 

To fortify network resilience, public utilities, and critical infrastructure stakeholders are adopting network digital modeling to replicate their environment and understand the impact of cyber threats. Integrated with OPAL-RT’s HYPERSIM or RT-LABS simulator, EXata CPS provides a complete real-time solution for the development, testing, and assessment of electrical grids with communication networks. Through network modeling and synchronized emulation of communication systems and power grid components, EXata dramatically improves infrastructure efficiency and grid reliability.  

Network Modeling — Autonomous Technology

The EXata digital twin technology leads the charge in revolutionizing vehicle safety by enabling the simulation of intricate network configurations, spanning diverse environments, protocols, and mobility patterns. From bustling urban landscapes to remote highways, EXata ensures unparalleled accuracy of critical factors like vehicle mobility, pedestrian traffic, signal properties, and cutting-edge wireless technologies such as 802.11p, LTE, and 5G.  

Our innovative technology empowers top automotive firms to streamline supply chains, elevate product quality, and drive innovation. As demand rises for safety and efficiency, alongside the surge in connected vehicles and advancements in communication technologies, EXata network modeling solutions align seamlessly with the industry's shifting focus towards sustainability and evolving priorities, based on IEEE and C-V2X standards. 

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