Agilent N2X Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards 10 Gb/s Ethernet and POS (XFP) XR-2 and XS-2 Test Cards N5602A, N5603A, N5632A Technical Data Sheet Wire-speed traffic generation, routing protocol emulation and analysis for the development and deployment of routers and switches with 10 Gb/s Ethernet or Packet over SONET/SDH interfaces. N5602A, N5603A, N5632A – Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards Key Features Product Overview XFP pluggable optics The Agilent N2X is the industry’s Combined with comprehensive, Flexible hardware to match your most comprehensive test solution real-time layer-1 to 4 transmit and test needs for testing the development and receive statistics and graphs including Industry's highest protocol deployment of network services for packet loss, latency and misordering, performance converging network infrastructures. N2X is able to verify the data-plane Industry's highest protocol Service providers, network functionality, performance and scalability equipment manufacturers (NEMs), scalability of your device or network. Full control over all traffic and component manufacturers Agilent N2X’s traffic generator and generation parameters can verify service attributes of receiver capabilities are tightly coupled Comprehensive API & Open- entire networks end-to-end, while with powerful protocol emulation Library of Automated Test Scripts also isolating problems down to hardware on all XR-2 and XS-2 test individual networking devices and cards. This integration will ensure your subsystems. Agilent N2X delivers devices are tested under the most unparalleled test realism to verify the realistic environment possible and ultimate performance, scalability and remove the need to manually configure resilience of carrier grade services and traffic addresses when completing infrastructure. performance measurements. N2X The Agilent N2X Next Generation provides emulation of the most popular 10Gb/s Ethernet & POS Test Cards routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF, are available with XFP pluggable ISIS and RIP and the latest MPLS optics. In conjunction with the N2X protocols, including RSVP-TE, LDP/CR- Packets & Protocols Application, they LDP, L2oMPLS (Martini), and VPLS. provide multi-port traffic generation, Multicast protocols can be verified scalable protocol emulation and easily with our IGMP and PIM-SM unparalleled performance analysis of protocol emulations. Access networks today’s networks and devices. From and devices can be tested with PPPoX wire-speed traffic generation and and DHCP protocols. analysis to full emulation of Internet- All N2X next generation 10Gb/s scale routing topologies using the test cards provide the data capture latest protocols and technologies, memory required to enable detailed Agilent provides the most flexible, analysis from a single test session. comprehensive and easy to use N2X allows users to set a range of system available today. triggers including a specific event The foundation of all N2X test cards threshold as a ‘trigger’ to initiate or is a powerful yet flexible traffic halt capture. Combined with powerful generation engine capable of verifying capture analysis software, users can everything from L2 Ethernet Switches quickly isolate, analyze and debug through to multi-chassis carrier-class performance issues. routing nodes and networks. The real- Agilent N2X test cards offer superior time traffic generator with multi-profile test flexibility and investment traffic scheduler and thousands of protection. Built upon powerful streams, programmable field modifiers programmable logic technology, and industry-leading test payload test functionality can be continually provides unparalleled test realism and adapted to ever-changing standards flexibility to ensure you can generate and evolving technologies. the traffic to meet any test scenario. 2 N5602A, N5603A, N5632A – Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards Product Features Industry’s Highest Protocol Flexible Hardware options to meet Full Control over ALL Traffic Performance Generation Parameters your test needs A high-performance CPU with on- Agilent N2X’s innovative “flexible Along with flexibility in interface types, board cache enables the industry’s PDU builder” technology delivers the N2X next-generation 10Gb test cards fastest protocol engine. most advanced solution for traffic are available in three variants designed generation and analysis available. Any to match your specific test needs When testing high-performance type of data-plane frame or packet routers, a key measurement is to can be generated, including custom XR-2 – Available in UniPHY POS/ determine the convergence time. A formats. Users can manipulate and Ethernet LAN/WAN and LAN/ router has “converged” when it has define the contents of all protocol WAN-only Ethernet versions. This learned all routes from its peers. fields quickly and easily. You no card offers seamless integration The XS-2 next-generation Ethernet test longer have to wait for industry of traffic and protocol testing for card is the only card available today standards, or write unique test scripts realistic testing of Internet routers that can determine the convergence to test new and proprietary protocol and switches. Combined with time of routers by advertising routes encapsulations. the N2X Packets and Protocols faster than any other test equipment application, these cards validate Comprehensive API & Open leading-edge services such as Industry’s Highest Protocol Library of Automated Test Scripts Multicast VPNs and IPTV on Scalability network devices. It can emulate N2X’s automated QuickTests, based 1 GB of CPU RAM per port on the multiple protocols simultaneously, on Agilent’s Journal of Internet Test XS-2 test card enables the industry’s creating sophisticated network Methodologies, make it easy to highest protocol scalability. topologies required to verify perform even the most complex tests. that the device can concurrently N2X’s powerful API makes it easy A key measurement is to determine manage numerous protocol to customize scripts to match your the number of routing peers that a engines and routing tables while specific test needs. router can support. For example, Layer- continuously forwarding traffic. 3 VPNs require each core and edge In addition, proprietary scripts can router to support a BGP-4 session. be created using the Tcl/Tk scripting XS-2 – This test card provides Any router must support thousands of environment. With only a few lines of the industry’s leading protocol BGP-4 peering sessions. code, powerful test scenarios can be scalability and performance needed executed with precision. The XS-2 next generation 10Gb to test the highest performing test card is the only card available Internet routers and switches. This today that can practically measure card is available in 10Gb Packet the absolute scalability of routers. over SONET/SDH and Ethernet Multiple XS-2 test cards can be added LAN/WAN variants. It sets a new into a single test system, to increase benchmark for protocol scalability the scalability of the entire system and performance testing with the – the possibilities for scalability testing ability to emulate the largest multi- are nearly endless. protocol topologies of any test equipment on the market. For scalability testing, the N5632A is much more economical than buying multiple test cards. Taking the cost of test interfaces and router ports into account, the N5632A halves the cost of test by concentrating more processing power on a single card. 3 N5602A, N5603A, N5632A – Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards Ethernet Link: Green - Ethernet framing is detected on Technical Specifications Indicators receive interface. LF/RF: Yellow - Local Fault signal detected from Physical Layer Specifications receive signal. Flashing yellow - Remote Fault N5602A, N5603A, N5632A Test Cards signal detected from receive signal. LOL: Yellow - Loss of Block Lock (64B/66B receive synchronization is lost) Port Density 1 duplex test port per card Alarms and Errors Connection Type Tx & Rx LC female Wavelengths Selected by XFP type At the SONET/SDH interface, access is provided to generate alarms, to Interface Operation Modes manipulate the automatic protection switching bytes (K1/K2), section and path trace messages (J0/J1), and synchronization byte (S1). Terminal Normal operation -Transmit and receive interfaces Real-Time Alarm Current alarm status is indicated on the user operate independently. Detection interface (GUI and/or API) and front panel LEDs Transmit loop- Transmitted data is electrically looped back to the Alarm events are reported in a trace log during back receive interface. The optical receive interface is the measurement interval disabled in this mode.Number of errored seconds is reported per alarm type (count of 1s intervals in which the alarm is Monitor Received data is looped back to the transmit detected at least once) interface. Received data is also copied into the test port where all real time Rx measurements are Alarm Generation Alarm conditions can be invoked, one at a time made. Capture and subsequent analysis are also SONET Alarms fully functional in this mode. LOS Transmit Clock Sources LOF LOP AIS-L Three clock Internally generated RDI-L sources are Recovered from the received signal AIS-P possibleExternal transmit reference clock: RDI-P 19.44MHz (±50ppm SONET / ±100ppm SDH Alarms Ethernet), 50±5% duty cycle LOS Input signal 0dBm nominal / 7dBm max LOF terminated in 50 ohm to ground i/p. MS-AIS Clock Offset Using the API or GUI, the transmit clock can MS-RDI be varied by ± 100ppm in 4ppm steps from the AU-AIS internally generated clock (SONET modes only). AU-RDI Front Panel Indicators Error Monitoring ‘Number of occurrences reported’, ‘number of (SONET/SDH) errored seconds reported’ and ‘error rate’ are recorded for each of the following Section Common Laser: Green when output laser is on (RSOH) / Line (MSOH) and Path errors: Indicators Tx: Green when a HDLC frame or Ethernet frame is transmitted. Does not indicate integrity of the SONET: Section BIP-8 (B1) transmitted SONET SPE SDH: RSOH (B1) errors Rx: Green when a HDLC frame or Ethernet frame SONET: Line REI (M1) errors is received. Indicates integrity of the SONET SPE SDH: MSOH (M1) errors and HDLC framing SONET: Line BIP-8 (B2) errors SONET/SDH Signal: Green - A valid optical receive signal is SDH: MSOH (B2) errors Indicators detected (opposite of LOS condition)SONET/SDH Path BIP-8 (B3) errors LOF/LOP: Yellow - Loss of Frame or Loss of SONET/SDH Path REI (G1) errors Pointer condition exists at the receiver Error Monitoring Block error AIS: Yellow - Line/MS AIS, Line/MS RDI, Path (Ethernet)64B/66B high bit error AIS or Path RDI condition exists at the receiver 4 N5602A, N5603A, N5632A – Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards Optical Interface Link Layer Specifications PAUSE Frames Connector 850nm SR/SW, 1310nm SR-1 & 1550nm IR-2 XFP 1 Duplex LC Connector In Ethernet mode, the Test Module can both generate and respond to Average Output 850nm SR/SW XFP PAUSE frames. Power Typical = -1.5 dbM Measurement System 1310nm SR-1 XFP Typical = -3 dBm 1550nm IR-2 XFP Measurements are synchronized across all cards within the test system Typical = 0.5 dBm with a 3 PPM max. difference between systems. Transmit 850nm SR/SW XFP Result typesCumulative: measurements are reported from the WavelengthMinimum = 840nm start of the measurement interval Typical = 850nmInstantaneous: measurements are reported from Maximum = 860nm the most recently completed sampling interval 1310nm SR-1 XFP Measurement interval: 1 second to 7 days Minimum = 1290 nmSampling interval: 1 second to 1 hour Typical = 1310 nmMeasurement clock: 10 ns resolution +/- 0.5 Maximum = 1330 nm ppm/year clock drift 1550nm IR-2 XFP Real-time Statistics Minimum = 1530 nm Unless otherwise specified all statistics are on a per port basis.Typical = 1550 nm Maximum = 1580 nm Glossary Receiver Type 850nm SR/SW, 1330nm SR-1 & 1550nm IR-2 XFP PIN Based Short event A sequence of bytes of insufficient length to form Wavelength 850nm SR/SW XFP a valid Ethernet frame (<18 bytes). RangeMinimum = 840nm Runt A frame with less than 64 bytes (excluding Maximum = 860nm preamble) and a valid FCS. 1330nm SR-1 & 1550nm IR-2 XFP Long frame A frame longer than 1522 bytes (or 9022 for jumbo Minimum = 1250 nm frames) with a valid FCS. Maximum = 16100 nm Jumbo frame A frame between 1519 and 9022 bytes with a valid Input Sensitivity 850nm SR/SW XFP FCS and an Ethertype of 0x8870. Maximum = -11.1 dBm 1330nm SR-1 & 1550nm IR-2 XFP Jabber frame A frame longer than 1522 bytes (or 9022 for jumbo Maximum = -17 dBm frames) with an invalid FCS. Input Power 850nm SR/SW XFP Pattern Match Count of frames matching specified fields in the Maximum = +0.65 dBm header. 1330nm SR-1 PPIC Packet Payload Integrity Check. The PPIC Maximum = -1.0 dBm field contains a 16-bit CRC calculated over the 1550nm IR-2 XFP “protected payload. The “protected payload” refers Maximum = -1.0 dBm to any of the following: IP packet payload (default) MPLS frame payload L2 frame payload User-defined 5 N5602A, N5603A, N5632A – Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards General Statistics Minimum transmit layer-2 frame length Ethernet: 9 (bytes)POS: 3 Maximum transmit layer-2 frame length 65,703 Per-Port Tx and Rx % line use (bytes) Statistics.Misdirected packets Error rate Minimum receive layer-2 frame length Ethernet: 9 (bytes)POS: 8 Per-Stream Tx and Rx stream packets and octets StatisticsMisordered packets Maximum receive layer-2 frame length 65,703 (bytes) Per-Stream & Tx and Rx test packets and octets Port StatisticsExpected Rx packets Applicable Standards Throughput Optical Telcordia Technologies GR-1377-CORE (Issue 5, Packets not received Transmitter And Rev. 2, Dec. 98 - SR short reach /LR long reach Average latency Receiver OC-192 interface specification) Minimum/maximum latency SDH STM-64c as per ITU-T Rec. G.691 (March, PPIC violations (i.e. count on payload error) 1999) IPv4Tx and Rx octet countsIEEE 802.3ae Header checksum errors SONET/SDHSONET STS-192c as per Telcordia Technologies Fragmented packet count GR-1377-CORE (Issue 5, Rev. 2, Dec. 98 - SR Throughput short reach / LR long reach OC-192 interface IPv6Tx and Rx packet and octet counts specification) ThroughputSDH STM-64c as per ITU-T Rec. G.707 (March, 1996) MPLSTx and Rx packets Packet Over IETF RFC 2615, PPP over SONET/SDH EthernetTx and Rx frame and octet counts SONET/SDHTx and Rx throughput (Mb/s) Tx and Rx MAC control frames PPP/HDLCIETF RFC 1662, PPP in HDLC-like Framing Short events received Link Control IETF RFC 1661, The Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) Runt frames received Protocol Tx & Rx long frames IP Control IETF RFC 1332, The PPP Internet Protocol Jabber frames received Protocol Control Protocol (IPCP) Tx & Rx invalid FCS frames Address IETF RFC 826 An Ethernet Address Resolution VLANTagged Tx and Rx frame and Octet counts Resolution Protocol HDLCTx/Rx frame and octet counts Protocol Tx/Rx throughput (Mb/s pre and post stuffing) PCS/RS/MAC IEEE 802.3ae Tx efficiency Protocol Rx FCS errors Rx aborted frames IP IEEE 802 IETF RFC 1042 Networks SONET/SDHB1, B2 and B3 error counts B1, B2 and B3 errors (seconds) Mechanical Specifications User Defined Powerful features allow statistics collection on a PhysicalWidth: 206 mm Statistics per-stream, per-MPLS tag, per-VLAN tag or other Depth: 313 mm user-defined-index basis.Height: 31.0 mm Weight: 2kg Card Specific Specifications Electrical Power 100W max Capture RAMN5602A, N5603A, N5632A: 256 MB consumption CPU RAM N5602A, N5603A: 512 MB Environmental (for protocol N5632A: 1GB scalability and Operating 05 °C to 40 °C performance temperature testing) Storage -40 °C to 70 °C All measurements are per physical interface port. temperature Maximum number of stream groups4095 Maximum Humidity 80% for temperatures up to 31 °C Relative Humidity decreasing linearly to 50% relative humidity at Maximum number of traffic streams32,768 40 °C – non condensing Maximum number of field inserters1024 6 N5602A, N5603A, N5632A – Next Generation 10Gb/s Test Cards Regulatory Compliance Online Help Electrical (Electromagnetic Compliance - EMC) An extensive online help system provides complete descriptions and detailed usage instructions for every As per IEC 61326-1:1997 + A1:1998 / EN 61326-1:1997 + A1:1998 / component of N2X. Dialog-level, context-sensitive help EN 61326-1:1997 + A2:2000+A3:2003. provides rapid access to the relevant sections of the online Electrical equipment for measurement, control and laboratory help. use.(Class A) EMC Directive 89/336/EEC (including 93/68/EEC) Configuration and Ordering Details For complete compliance information refer to Declaration of Conformity E7900-91300 10 Gb/s test card variants Electrical (Safety) N5602A: 1-port 10Gb XR-2 Test Card (POS & Ethernet LAN/WAN XFP) IEC 61010-1:1990 + A1:1992 + A2:1995 N5603A: 1-port 10Gb XR-2 Test Card (Ethernet LAN/ Safety requirements for electrical equipment for measurement, WAN XFP) control, and laboratory useN5632A: 1-port 10Gb XS-2 Test Card (POS & Ethernet Low voltage directive 73/23/EEC LAN/WAN XFP) Optical (Safety) Pluggable XFP optics options Complies with IEC 60825/CDRH Class 1, and 21 CFR 1040 - Class 1 Option 001: Include one – 1310nm SR-1 XFP Laser Products. Option 002: Include one – 1550nm IR-2 XFP Option 003: Include one – 850nm SR/SW XFP The 1310nm and 1550nm XFP transceivers are multi- rate compliant and will support Ethernet LAN, Ethernat WAN and POS framing on relevant test cards. 850nm XFP transceiver will only support Ethernet LAN framing. Agilent strongly recommends purchase of Agilent specified XFP transceivers with the unit to ensure reliable testing. Agilent cannot guarantee that XFPs purchased from other sources have been verified to successfully interoperate with the test card. Your local Agilent field engineer can provide more details on how to order and configure a test system. Software Compatibility The E7880B Packets Application software enables the traffic generation and analysis features on the XR-2 & XS-2 test cards. 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