SPIRENT TESTCENTER PACKET GENERATOR AND ANALYZER BASE PACKAGE Convergence is creating a new generation of integrated network devices and services that are much more complex than ever before. The resulting increased complexity, scarcity of testing skills and architectural shortcomings in current test systems is hurting the ability of manufacturers to ship products on time at escalating quality levels and slowing service providers’ ability to deploy networks that get Quality of Experience (QoE) right the first time. APPLICATIONS FEATURES AND BENEFITS • Evaluate the stability of switches, routers and edge devices Testers want the security of knowing the industry’s most intensive under static or dynamic load conditions for minutes, hours and extensive testing and analysis has been performed on their and days device or service. At the same time, they do not want to expend the cost, engineering effort and time associated with manually • Characterize and troubleshoot functional behavior (including poring through mountains of collected test data. negative testing) of new network functionality in the development lab or before deployment into the operational network Spirent TestCenter™’s Intelligent Results seeks out the results • Evaluate key performance parameters such as per-flow that represent test anomalies or failures. These are isolated QoS, fail-over time or Access Control Lists (ACL); filtering and brought directly to the tester’s attention without having to performance manually search through pages of data. • Perform comparative analysis of devices or services with deterministic traffic during product development cycles or Intelligent Results™ vendor comparisons • Interesting Streams—This feature allows a user to create • When used in conjunction with any of Spirent TestCenter’s search criteria such as frame loss, rate, latency, jitter or additional protocol packages the system can emulate other combinations of measurements; the system will find complex network topologies and traffic conditions all the streams matching the criteria and present them in the results view. • HyperFilters™—Incoming traffic can be segregated into 64K Emulated Enterprise Network Emulated Service different categories based on user-defined combinations of Provider Network five filters operating on the frame data itself Voice VLAN A • Stray Frames Detection—The system can automatically detect Video stray frames (multicast, L2 and VLAN flooding/leaking) and Device Under Data VLAN B Test bring them to the tester’s attention Data • Hierarchical Results (drill down)—Results are available at Data Network the traffic group, stream block, stream (with drill down) and flow levels • Tx to Rx Mapping—Testers need Tx counts particularly for Data Data devices that shape and police traffic; Spirent TestCenter Voice Video provides these counts and rates for 32K Tx streams per port with matching statistics on the Rx port SPIRENT TESTCENTER PACKET GENERATOR AND ANALYZER BASE PACKAGE • Industry-leading charting capability feature provides more Troubleshooting Tools statistics to chart, high-resolution charts with user-specified Testers can spend up to one-third of their entire test time triggering, and integrated control and data plane events on troubleshooting problems. For many labs, this represents the same chart with same time reference largest single task in the testing calendar. Reduce it and you • Analysis of non-test frames—Spirent TestCenter can analyze get your products and services to market faster and with higher frames, including applying HyperFilters, to live traffic quality—while simultaneously reducing the cost of each test cycle. Spirent TestCenter features the industry’s best set of tools to quickly isolate, analyze and resolve problems. • Intelligent Results allows users to quickly identify the problematic areas • Real-time Tx controls enables the tester to troubleshoot problems by altering the test while it is running • Real-time results views allow the user to see how the device responds to changes in the test conditions without having to stop the test and save the results HyperFilters segregate each stream into different MAC addresses, IP addresses, • Real-time capture/decode—detailed analysis of interactions ToS levels or any other user-defined characteristics of the received traffic. between Spirent TestCenter and the DUT without having to halt transmission Jitter • Comprehensive capture filters allow the user to isolate problem The use of delay-sensitive voice and data services over IP and frames/exchanges from the traffic torrent at 10G wire rate Ethernet is expanding rapidly. These services are sensitive to not • Comprehensive Logging ensures no critical events are missed only latency but also variations in latency also known as jitter. while allowing the user to filter out all but the key events The buffering, queuing and switching architectures of network • The system can analyze non-Spirent TestCenter traffic to devices are the most significant source of jitter. troubleshoot production networks Testing and measuring a device’s jitter characteristics is no longer Spirent TestCenter GUI Framework a nice add-on. Today it is a critical task for device manufacture and service deployment. Customized applications, with windows arranged how the user wants and unnecessary clutter removed, are easier to use. Spirent TestCenter features the industry’s best jitter measurements: They improve the tester’s efficiency and effectiveness—ultimately leading to higher quality products and services brought more • Conforms to MEF (MEF 10) and IETF (RFC 3393) standards quickly to market. • Jitter measured for all frames within a stream (not just on a sample) Spirent TestCenter is a modern application within a sophisticated GUI. The environment can be customized to meet the unique • System can simultaneously analyze jitter on each of 64K needs of each tester. streams arriving on a port • Jitter measured at wire rate up to 10Gbps • The Technology Selector allows each tester to customize • Jitter measured for entire test duration the application to their combination of technologies; the configuration and results options associated with other • Jitter measured for mixes of constant and bursty traffic technologies are placed in the background • Jitter measured for mixes of frame sizes • Jitter histograms • Real-time charting of min, max, average jitter • 1Throughput latency and jitter in a single test (one test run) for RFC 2544 test • Video Quality Jitter measurements • MDI RFC 4445 • Packet-to-packet delay variation RFC 3550 Define real-time charts to monitor critical statistics while the test executes. SPIRENT TESTCENTER PACKET GENERATOR AND ANALYZER BASE PACKAGE • The windowing system allows each user to display favorite is required. This is beyond windows in the most efficient configuration simply saving the test configuration. The test logic is • The docking framework allows testers to detach windows for also saved from test initiation different display needs—including the ability to display them to pass/fail analysis. on multiple monitors • Configurable results options enable up to 16 different charts • Change traffic speeds, start/ and tables to be displayed simultaneously stop protocols, flap routes and links in the Command Traffic Patterns (Scheduling) Sequencer; complete control over interactive steps of Today’s networks carry a complex mix of voice, video and Spirent TestCenter. data traffic. The mix varies from that sent by thousands of • uncoordinated households to carefully shaped and policed Specify Pass/Fail conditions in Command Sequencer, backbone traffic emanating from various aggregation devices. e.g. packet loss greater Only Spirent TestCenter has the flexible priority-based scheduling than 0, links not up, etc.; mode that generates realistic Triple Play traffic profiles that your thousands of user defined device is likely to experience in the real world. Spirent TestCenter conditions available scales to simulate tens of thousands of sources all precisely Users can create detailed and • Full conditional logic—fail scheduled by the software in just seconds. automated control over test events test if links stay down or using the command sequencer. route flap fails—if/then/ • Spirent TestCenter features three different scheduling modes else, do/while, etc. to meet the demands of different test scenarios • Set your own fail reason in the Stop Sequencer Command— • Users can define the collection of constant and bursty traffic string is passed back to caller in generated script sources required to realistically emulate voice, video and data sources on a single port Integrated Control and Data Plane (Dynamic Stream Blocks) • Each stream can be considered an independent traffic source • Testers can spend up to half of their time configuring manual with its own information rate, burst size and other shaping test cases. Often this is the largest effort in the testing parameters; the tester controls contention using 32 levels of calendar. Configurations that can take hours with legacy priority which simulate different service level attributes products take mere minutes on Spirent TestCenter. Common • Users can configure the burst characteristics of each stream— test cases that can easily be set up by Spirent TestCenter burst size, IFG, IBG, frame size mixes—for thousands of traffic using its interactive GUI simply cannot be attempted using sources on each port most products without expensive programming—if at all. • The system mixes this traffic to create a realistic simulation • By using Spirent TestCenter, testers configure their of different voice, video and data sources—emulating traffic network topology and quickly build traffic on top of it from either a vast collection of end users or from various using one of several configuration Wizards. No more aggregation devices that apply shaping and policing functions straining to document and remember address assignments • Real-time control over traffic is maintained—including control and mappings. Spirent TestCenter keeps track of all the over rate—even while generating complex traffic mixes mapping, allowing the user to simply indicate flows between end points in the emulated topology. • NoCode™ Automation Not only are these mappings automatically created at configuration time, but they are also updated while the test Improvements centered on automation can enhance organizational executes providing dynamic assignments unmatched in productivity by 400 percent or more. Unfortunately not all competing products. For example, MPLS label changes made test organizations can afford the expense. Scripting requires on the DUT are distributed using the control plane protocols to highly skilled programmers. It takes time to design, code and Spirent TestCenter which then updates the traffic parameters troubleshoot the scripts. Investment in programming tools, APIs on the fly, all without user intervention. and new infrastructure is also required. Often these hurdles are The result is significant productivity gains within the testing insurmountable even though the potential rewards are huge. function, allowing faster time to market while maintaining high Only Spirent TestCenter features “No Code” automation enabling quality and cost control. users to immediately produce executable scripts from successful GUI-driven tests with one click. No programming or API knowledge SPIRENT TESTCENTER PACKET GENERATOR AND ANALYZER BASE PACKAGE SUPPORTED MODULES & PLATFORMS ORDERING INFORMATION • • BPK-1001A supports all Spirent TestCenter test modules and Spirent TestCenter Packet Generator and Analyzer Base personality cards. Package: P/N BPK-1001A REQUIREMENTS OTHER SPIRENT TESTCENTER SOFTWARE • • Pentium® or greater PC running Windows® XP Professional Many optional software packages add functionality that SP2 with mouse/color monitor required for GUI operation extends what is offered within the Packet Generator and Analyzer Base Package. Please consult the data sheet for each • One Ethernet cable and one 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet base and test package to determine its specific capabilities. card installed in the PC • For test automation system requirements refer to the Spirent SPIRENT GLOBAL SERVICES TestCenter Automation data sheet Spirent Global Services optimizes your productivity with Spirent • Operating system languages supported: English, French, TestCenter over a broad range of technologies: German, Italian, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (traditional and simplified) Professional Services • Test lab optimization: Test automation engineering services MINIMUM PC REQUIREMENTS • Service deployment and service-level optimization: • Small Port System: 1-25 ports Vendor acceptance testing, SLA benchmarking, infrastructure • 2.4GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent 512MB of free RAM and disk and security validation • • Device scalability optimization: POC high-scalability validation Medium Port System: 26-75 testing • 3GHz Pentium 4 or equivalent of RAM and 15GB of free • Large Port (75+ ports) Education Services • E6400 Intel® Core™2 Duo or equivalent 3GB of RAM • Web-based training: 24 x 7 hardware and software training and 100GB space • Instructor-led training: Hands-on methodology and product training RECOMMENDED PC REQUIREMENTS • Certifications: SCPA and SCPE certifications • Small Port System: 1-25 ports • E6300 Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent 2GB RAM and 10GB Implementation Services free • Optimized new customer productivity with up to three days • Medium Port System: 26-75 of on-site assistance • E6400 Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent 3GB RAM and 100GB free Visit www.spirent.com/gs or contact your Spirent sales representative. • Large Port System: 75 ports • E6600 Intel Core 2 Duo or equivalent 4GB RAM and 100GB free (disk should be 2 SATA RAID 0 configuration) AMERICAS 1-800-SPIRENT • +1-818-676-2683 • sales@spirent.com EUROPE AND THE MIDDLE EAST +44 (0) 1293 767979 • emeainfo@spirent.com ASIA AND THE PACIFIC +86-10-8518-2539 • salesasia@spirent.com © 2010 Spirent Communications, Inc. 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