Award Winner, 10 Gigabit Ethernet: Smartbits TeraMetrics 10 Gigabit Ethernet Test Module.

Spirent Communications' 10 Gigabit Ethernet Test Module provides the vital proof that other 10 Gigabit networking products meet required specifications. Without such test platforms, development of any product to meet such a standard would be impossible. (This product supports XENPAK modules and is ideal for testing new high speed metro applications)

  10 Gigabit Ethernet

10 Gigabit Ethernet opens the door for unprecedented capacity, speed, and distance for Ethernet-based networks. Instrumental in developing this groundbreaking standard, Spirent Communications provides the first and only complete line of fully compliant 10 GbE test and measurement products.

Interfaces Supported

Test Solutions

• 10 Gigabit Switch/Routers
• XAUI Chipsets
• XENPAK Transceivers

10 Gigabit Switch/ Routers Testing

Spirent features 10 Gigabit analyzer modules that can:

• Transmit and analyze traffic on the data plane and control plane simultaneously
• Perform Layer 2 testing with RFC 2544 automated test scripts
• Perform Layer 3 testing (including IPv4/IPv6, TOS/Diffserve, VLAN, MulticastIP, MPLS) via the SmartFlow application
• Perform Routing functional testing using the AX-4000 GUI
• Provide Routing performance testing with the TeraRouting Test suite (Supports OSPF, BGP, RIP, ISIS, VLAN)

XAUI Chipsets

Spirent provides testing of the XAUI interface for design verification and performance testing of XAUI Chipsets.

Traffic generation and analysis features include:

• Frame size 40 -16000 bytes, Fixed or Random within preset limits. All transmit streams may have random small frame sizes without limits.
• Inter-packet gaps Fixed or Random (user can set limits from 9.6nSec to 1.6 sec)
• Frame Content- User may select from a range of different background patterns on a per stream basis or customize each byte in an frame editor window
• 512 unique streams and millions of Flows supported through cycling IP address or other fields in the frame
• Latency - Supports Min, Max, Average Latency and standard deviation Can measure latency, Packet loss and out of Sequence in one test iteration and correlate to load
• Data Integrity test
• Out of Sequence Test
• Negative testing: illegal sizes frames and frames with incorrect FCS can be generated.
• Preamble tests. Spirent supports the industries most advanced features for generation and analysis of preamble at 10-Gigabit rates. Please contact Spirent for further details.

XAUI Specific features

• The XLW-3720/1 supports Read and Write to any part of the MDIO registers.

XENPAK Tranceivers

XENPAK transceiver manufacturers and systems manufacturers need to test compliance to the XENPAK MSA and the IEEE 802.3ae standards. The Spirent XLW-3720/1 module is the only tester on the market in full compliance to both 10 Gig Ethernet standards. Spirent has implemented an APS on our test module to comply with the XENPAK MSA.

To test the XENPAK transceiver in a benign environment, it is recommended to plug it into an evaluation/demonstration board on the workbench and connect to Spirent's SmartBits XAUI interface via 16 SMA cables. Spirent supplies 16 x 36' cables with the XAUI Extender unit, which have been pre-tested to ensure high signal integrity of the XAUI signals.

SmartBits can perform functional tests to verify the transceiver is reporting the Link Alarms status, set the LASI control registers, read the XENPAK profile information and set local or remote loopback modes.

For traffic testing, the test module can generate customized Layer 2 traffic through the transceiver or use industry standard patterns, CRPAT & CJPAT. The user can easily monitor counters in real time to see if the transceiver can forward line rate traffic without errors.

The SmartBits can capture line rate traffic and has filters to capture errored frames.