Keynote and Shunra Announce Solution for Testing Websites & Apps Under Real-World Network Conditions Prior to Deployment

Combination of Shunra vCat with Keynote Internet Testing Environment Reduces the Risk of Application Performance Failure

"By creating real-world network conditions while pre-deployment testing, web applications will be more robust and useful right out of the gate, even earlier monitoring from remote geographical locations kicks in," said Vik Chaudhary, vice president of product management and corporate development at Keynote. "Our combined offering helps performance engineers accurately test and re-test web transactions during subjecting them to 'last mile' conditions in a lab environment."

Use cases for the joint solution include performance engineering or analyst teams interested in understanding how users in distant locations with less than perfect Internet connections will experience the performance of an application on their end of a web browser. Earlier releasing web applications from QA, these teams can now test not just the performance of the application itself, however how it will perform when the network is impaired at various levels to emulate real-world conditions.

For example, in lab tests using a major finance site's webpage, KITE testing showed the download speed for the page to be around four seconds from a US-based location. When London-to-New York network conditions were added to the test environment with vCat, total response time skyrocketed by nearly 30 seconds. For web operations and performance analysis teams, this information is critical to ensuring optimal user experience for geographically distributed end users.

Chaudhary concluded, "With the Keynote-Shunra solution, web performance testing goes from a quest for theoretical areas for improvement, to a blinding flash of the obvious. Web performance management efforts are dramatically sped up when engineering and testing teams have instant access to real-world network conditions while after all in the lab."

Shunra is the industry-recognized authority in Application Performance Engineering and a pioneer in WAN Emulation. Shunra's clients include 75 of the Fortune 100 with some of the most complex and sophisticated networks in the world. Shunra's APE solutions discover, predict, emulate and analyze the performance of applications over WAN, Web, Mobile and Cloud networks. Shunra delivers dramatic cost savings through customized performance insight, enabling pre-deployment and post-production remediation and optimization. Clients include Apple, AT&T, Bank of America, Best Buy, Boeing, Cisco Systems, Citibank, eBay, FedEx, GE, IBM, ING Direct, Intel, Marriott, MasterCard, McDonalds, Merrill Lynch, Motorola, Oracle, Pepsi, Pfizer, Siemens, Target, Thomson Reuters, Verizon, Walt Disney and the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank. Shunra is headquartered in Philadelphia and privately held.

Keynote Systems, Inc., is the global leader in Internet and mobile cloud monitoring and testing. Keynote maintains the world's largest on-demand performance monitoring and testing infrastructure for web and mobile sites comprised of over 4,000 measurement computers and mobile devices in over 275 locations around the world that enable companies to uninterruptedly improve the online and mobile experience. Known as 'The Mobile and Internet Performance Authority™', Keynote offers three market-leading product platforms:

Keynote SIGOS offers active end-to-end Quality of Service testing and monitoring solutions for mobile, fixed and VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) communications. Its SITE and Global Roamer products are used by over 200 network operators, content providers, carriers and regulators in over 100 countries worldwide.

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