PORT LEVEL FEATURES
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Interface category
10GE and 1GE Ethernet
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Number of test ports
2 x 10GE and 4 x 1GE
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Interface options
2 x 10GBASE-SR / LR / LRM / ER / Direct Attached Cable (DAC)* and
4 x 10/100/1000BASE-T** or 1000BASE-X (SFP-MSA) or 100BASE-FX** or 100BASE-BX ****The interface implements discrete PHY devices with built-in EDC support that employs sophisticated signal processing techniques to recover a 10 Gbps signal that has travelled over a dispersive Copper Direct attach cable and restore a bit-error rate of 10-12 or better.
** Requires Finisar SFP transceiver FCLF-8521-P2BTL with sgmii host interface
*** Requires Source Photonics SFP transceivers with sgmii host interface
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Number of transceiver module cages
2 x SFP+ and 4 x SFP
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Port statistics (counter size: 64 bits)
Link state, FCS errors, pause frames, ARP/PING, error injections, training packet
All traffic: RX and TX Mbit/s, packets/s, packets, bytes
Traffic w/o test payload: RX and TX Mbit/s, packets/s, packets, bytes -
Adjustable Inter Frame Gap (IFG)
Configurable from 16 to 56 bytes, default is 20B (12B IFG + 8B preamble)
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Transmit line rate adjustment
Ability to adjust the effective line rate by forcing idle gaps equivalent to -1000 ppm (increments of 10 ppm)
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ARP/PING
Supported (configurable IP and MAC address per port)
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Field upgradeable
System is fully field upgradeable to product releases (FPGA images and Software)
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Histogram statistics (counter size: 64 bits)
Two real-time histograms per port. Each histogram can measure one of RX/TX packet length, IFG, jitter, or latency distribution for all traffic, a specific stream, or a filter
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Tx disable
Enable/disable of optical laser or copper link
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IGMPv2 multicast join/leave
IGMPv2 continuous multicast join, with configurable repeat interval
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Oscillator characteristics
• Initial Accuracy is 3 ppm
• Frequency drift over 1st year: +/- 3 ppm (over 15 years: +/- 15 ppm)
• Temperature Stability: +/- 20 ppm (Total Stability is +/- 35 ppm) -
Loopback modes
- L1RX2TX – RX-to-TX, transmit byte-by-byte copy of the incoming packet
- L2RX2TX – RX-to-TX, swap source and destination MAC addresses
- L3RX2TX – RX-to-TX, swap source and destination MAC addresses and IP addresses
- TXON2RX – TX-to-RX, packet is also transmitted from the port
- TXOFF2RX – TX-to-RX, port’s transmitter is idle
- Port-to-port – Inline loop mode where all traffic is looped 100% transparent at L1
TRANSMIT ENGINE
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Number of transmit streams per port
256 (wire-speed)
Each stream can generate millions of traffic flows through the use of field modifiers -
Test payload insertion per stream
Wire-speed packet generation with timestamps, sequence numbers, and data integrity signature optionally inserted into each packet.
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Stream statistics (counter size: 64 bits)
TX Mbit/s, packets/s, packets, bytes, FCS error, Pause
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Bandwidth profiles
Burst size and density can be specified. Uniform and bursty bandwidth profile streams can be interleaved
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Field modifiers
16-bit header field modifiers with inc, dec, or random mode. Each modifier has configurable bit-mask, repetition, min, max, and step parameters. 2 modifiers per stream for 1G ports and 5 modifiers per stream for 10G ports.
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Packet length controls
Fixed, random, butterfly, and incrementing packet length distributions. Packet length from 56 to 16384 bytes
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Packet payloads
Repeated user specified 1 to 18B pattern, a 8-bit incrementing pattern
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Error generation
Undersize length (56B min) and oversize length (16384 max.) packet lengths, injection of sequence, misorder, payload integrity, and FCS errors
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TX packet header support and RX autodecodes
Ethernet, Ethernet II, VLAN, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, LLC, SNAP, GTP, ICMP, RTP, RTCP, STP, MPLS, PBB, or fully specified by user
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Packet scheduling modes
- Normal (stream interleaved mode). Standard scheduling mode, precise rates, minor variation in packet inter-frame gap.
- Strict Uniform. New scheduling mode, with 100% uniform packet inter-frame gap, minor deviation from configured rates.
- Sequential packet scheduling (sequential stream scheduling). Streams are scheduled continuously in sequential order, with configurable number of packets per stream.
- Burst. Packets per stream are organized in bursts. Bursts from active streams form a burst group. The user specifies time from start of one burst group till start of next burst group.
RECEIVE ENGINE
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Number of traceable Rx streams per port
648 (wire-speed) for 1G ports
2016 (wire-speed) for 10G ports -
Automatic detection of test payload for received packets
Real-time reporting of statistics and latency, loss, payload integrity, sequence error, and misorder error checking
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Jitter measurement
Jitter (Packet Delay Variation) measurements compliant to MEF10 standard with 8 ns accuracy. Jitter can be measured on up to 32 streams.
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Stream statistics (4)
- RX Mbit/s, packets/s, packets, bytes.
- Loss, payload integrity errors, sequence errors, misorder errors
- Min latency, max latency, average latency
- Min jitter, max jitter, average jitter
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Latency measurements accuracy
±16/32 ns (opto/elec) for 1G ports and
±8 ns for 10G ports -
Latency measurement resolution
8 ns (Latency measurements can calibrate and remove latency from transceiver modules)
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Number of filters:
- 6 x 64-bit user-definable match-term patterns with mask, and offset
- 6 x frame length comparator terms (longer, shorter)
- 6 x user-defined filters expressed from AND/OR’ing of the match and length terms.
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Filter statistics (counter size: 64 bits)
Per filter: RX Mbit/s, packets/s, packets, bytes.
CAPTURE
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Capture criteria
All traffic, stream, FCS errors, filter match, or traffic without test payloads
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Capture start/stop triggers
Capture start and stop trigger: none, FCS error, filter match, payload error
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Capture limit per packet
16 – 16384 bytes
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Wire-speed capture buffer per port
16 kB for 1G ports and
64 kB for 10G ports -
Low speed capture buffer per port (10Mbit/sec)
4096 packets (any size)







