IWL INC.
MARCO ISLAND, FLORIDA

The question of “how many bits” were sent and received clearly is a matter of interest when measuring data rates or data quantities. Mobile providers, consumer ISP's, consumers, and regulators talk a lot about their speed and (not so often) about their data caps. But rarely, if ever, are sufficient details provided... Ms. Wellens founded IWL in 1993 as a spinoff from the Interop Company, where she was the Director of Technology Marketing. In this capacity she provided leadership for the 5,000 node "InteropNet" as well as technology showcases. Prior to Interop Ms. Wellens held management positions in marketing and engineering for Sun Microsystems (now Oracle), with specific responsibilities for networking and operating systems and the integration of third-party products to the Sun environment. Chris was an instructor in Software Product Marketing at UC Berkeley Extension. Chris has served on the Board of Shakespeare Santa Cruz and YumaWorks. She earned a B.A. from Wellesley College and an M.S. from the University of Southern California. Mr. Auerbach founded both Epilogue Technology Corporation (SNMP engines) and Empirical Tools and Technologies, Inc. (network diagnostic tools). Prior to IWL, Karl was at Precept Software (acquired by Cisco) where he architected and implemented IP/TV, a pioneering product for the distribution of entertainment grade video over the internet. Karl was a senior researcher in the Advanced Internet Architecture group at Cisco Systems; is the co-founder of the Boston Working Group; and has served on the Board of Directors of the Open Voting Consortium. IWL was co-founded by Marshall Rose and Chris Wellens who met whilte serving on the Interop Program Committee. Chris was the Director of Technology for Interop and Marshall was a Working Group Chair in the IETF for the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP). It was 1992 and both Chris and Marshall were concerned with the poor quality of SNMP implementations. Marshall agreed to create a set of tests if Chris would organize a group of developers into an interoperability test summit. Chris did so by establishing InterWorking Labs in 1993 and producing the first SNMP interoperability test summit in January of 1994. While the legal entity remains, the Company started doing business as "IWL", to match its domain name and simplify its communication. A shocking number of impementations failed the majority of the tests and there were only 50 tests! From those beginnings, SilverCreek, the authoritative SNMP Test Suite (or SNMP tester) was created. Today, IWL offers tests for a number of protocols -- SNMP, TCP, TPv4, IPv6, UDP, ICMP, SIP, TLS, and more, covering protocol conformance, compliance, stress testing, robustness/vulnerability testing, negative, inopportune, and interoperability testing. Beyond protocol testing. IWL provides products to emulate adverse network conditions in the lab, including bandwidth limited environments, misconfigured routers, and a wide variety of anomalies. IWL is certified by the Women's Business Enterprise National Council. The certification occurs annually and requires a detailed audit and site visit of all the financial records, board meeting mnutes, and key contracts undertaken by the enterprise. For suppliers who can benefit from doing business with a WBENC certified company, please contact us for a copy of our certification. IWL is the producer for the HOTI Project (pronounced 'hottie'). HOTI, or the History of the Internet, is a film project that tells the story of how the Internet evolved. Instead of a feature length, commercial film, HOTI is a collection of five-minute videos with each video capturing one important idea. Most five-minute segments contain an interview with a key individual who made a technical contribution to the evolution of the Internet. The goal of the HOTI project is to help people understand that today's Internet evolved from the combined contributions of about 200 people. It was not the work of just one person. In addition, significant funding for the early Internet originated from the Department of Defense; the Internet was not developed by an entrepreneur with venture capital funding. Products The Maxwell Pro TLS test suite helped us find and fix bugs as we migrated from the outdated and less secure version of TLS to the latest and more robust TLS 1.2. The IWL independent test suite gave our clients assurance in the robustness of the new version of the NetFront Browser. Apple products are used in a wide variety of customer environments. By emulating these different situations in combination with testing various models of consumer Access Points, we can be assured that customers have a solid experience when they get new Apple software or hardware in their hands. As the world leader in IP video management, Verint's Software Test Group was in search of a network tool that would allow us to simulate the harsh, and some times unpredictable, impairment conditions of real world network scenarios with IP video solutions. We were very fortunate to discover the Maxwell family. These tools are easy to operate and extraordinarily cost-effective. They enabled us to emulate real-time effects of various network conditions such as packet loss, latency, and bandwidth, helping us detect and work to resolve any problems we find well in advance during our development process, assuring optimal performance from the end-user perspective. The IWL network emulators are now an important, integral part of our test lab.