To save you the two-link chase to get at the meat of the announcement, here's a direct link to the paper:
<a href="http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20160205-tlem.pdf" rel="nofollow">http://info.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/papers/20160205-tlem.pdf</a><p>It explains in a lot more detail than the mailing list post what TLEM is about and how works.<p>Choice quote from the abstract:
"Our emulator can handle bidi-
rectional traffic at speeds of over 18 Mpps (64 byte pack-
ets) and 30 Gbit/s (1500 byte packets) per direction even
with large emulation delays."