PORT LEVEL FEATURES
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Interface category
10G Ethernet
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Number of test ports
6 ports that can be individually configured by different users to test 6 different speeds simultaneously.
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Interface options
- 10M/100M/1000/2500/5000/10G Copper*
- 10GBASE-SR / LR / ER or
- 1000/2500/5000/10G Direct Attached Cable (DAC) or
- 10/100/1000BASE-T**
* Requires FS-SFP-10GM-T-30
** Requires SFP transceivers with sgmii host interface (Roadmap) -
Number of transceiver module cages
6 x SFP+
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Port statistics
- 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
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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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Transmit line clock adjustment
From -400 to 400 ppm in steps of 1 ppm (shared across all ports)
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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
Two real-time histograms per port. Each histogram can measure one of RX/TX packet length, IFG, 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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Loopback modes
- Off: Traffic flows naturally out of the port
- L1 RX-to-TX: Any received packet is bounced back through TX
- L2 RX-to-TX: Same as L1 RX-to-TX yet it also swaps MAC SRC<>DST
- L3 RX-to-TX: Same as L2 RX-to-TX yet it also swaps IP SRC<>DST
- TX(on)-to-RX: Packet goes out of TX but also internally direct to RX
- TX(off)-to-RX: Packet goes directly to RX. Port’s transmitter is idle (No link sync needed)
- Port-to-port: Any RX packet goes out through TX on the neighbor port (L1)
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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)
TRANSMIT ENGINES
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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
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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
TX Mbit/s, packets/s, packets, bytes, FCS error
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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
24-bit header field modifiers with inc, dec, or random mode. Each modifier has configurable bitmask, min, max, and step parameters. Up to 5 24-bit modifiers can be applied per stream
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Packet length controls
Fixed, random, butterfly, and incrementing packet length distributions. Packet length from 60B to 16384 bytes
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Packet payloads
Repeated user specified 1 to 18B pattern, 8-bit incrementing or decrementing pattern, 16-bit incrementing or decrementing pattern, PRBS-31, Random
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Extended payload
Fixed full custom payloads can be generated for each stream with payload sizes up to 16384 bytes
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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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Pause Frames
Responds to incoming pause and PFC (Priority-based Flow Control) frames
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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 in a 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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No. of traceable Rx streams per port
2016 (wire-speed)
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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
- 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
±8 ns
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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
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
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Capture limit per packet
16 – 16384 bytes
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Wire-speed capture buffer per port
64 kB
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Low speed capture buffer per port (10Mbit/sec)
4096 packets (any size)
HW SPECIFICATIONS
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Max. Power
10 W
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Weight
0.34 lbs (0.155 kg)
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Environmental
- Operating Temperature: 10 to 35º C
- Storage Temperature: -40 to 70º C
- Humidity: 8% to 90% non-condensing
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Regulatory
FCC (US), CE (Europe)
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Product Numbers (P/N)
- Z10sx Odin – test module for XenaBay chassis
- Z10sxc Odin – mounted in XenaCompact chassis








