PacketCheck
The facts below are what the maker publishes about PacketCheck, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From PacketCheck's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| PacketCheck™ (ETH100) | Priced on request | Node-locked or floating licenses; listed as ETH100 |
The facts
Each one read from PacketCheck's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Capacity
- The product page states that traffic throughput and impairment testing are supported up to 500 Mbps across 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps, and 1 Gbps LANs and WANs.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Capture and playback
- The product records and replays traffic in PCAP, PCAPNG, NTAR, and GL proprietary HDL formats.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Delay measurement limit
- One-way delay is described as correctly measurable on one PC with two NICs running PacketCheck on each, using one license; round-trip delay requires the remote device to be configured for loopback.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Impairment testing
- It can introduce byte insertion or deletion and bit or logical-operation errors to test network robustness.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The maker describes using PacketCheck with GL’s MAPS UMTS/LTE simulators for GTP traffic simulation, which requires additional licenses.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License options
- The FAQ states that PacketCheck is available under node-locked or floating licenses.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Metrics
- It measures bit error rate, packet loss, out-of-sequence and errored packets, throughput, round-trip delay, and one-way delay.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Protocol layers
- It supports testing across Layer 1, Ethernet Layer 2, stacked VLAN/MPLS Layer 2.5, IPv4 Layer 3, and UDP, TCP, and ICMP Layer 4 traffic.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- PacketCheck is a PC-based Ethernet/IP test tool for generating and analyzing multi-stream traffic with BERT, throughput, delay, and impairment testing.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Reporting
- The product page describes PDF and XML reports with test statistics and configuration details, including the option to generate periodic reports.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Traffic configuration
- Users can configure multiple streams and set per-stream addresses, VLAN/MPLS headers, frame size, rate, and protocol parameters.checked 9 Oct 2026
The company
- Founded
- 1986checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Gaithersburg, Maryland, USAchecked 28 Sep 2026
- Maker founding
- GL Communications says it was formed on October 22, 1986.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Maker headquarters
- GL Communications lists its headquarters at 818 West Diamond Avenue, Third Floor, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20878, USA.checked 9 Oct 2026
Where it runs
- Hardware and OS
- The FAQ says no special hardware is required beyond a standard Windows PC and network interface card; it recommends a high-performance Intel Ethernet adapter for better accuracy and stability at higher rates.checked 9 Oct 2026
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