PacketExpert™ - RFC 2544 Testing

Supports Stacked MPLS (up to 3

Levels) The RFC2544 application is deisgned to perform a test which includes Throughput, Latency,
 Frame Loss, and Back-to-Back. Similar to BERT, RFC 2544 can be done over Framed Ethernet
(Layer2), Stacked VLAN (Q-in- Q), Stacked MPLS, IP and UDP. The application is available as an
bsic software with PacketExpert™ 1G, a Quad Port Ethernet / VLAN / MPLS / IP / UDP Tester with 4
Electrical Ethernet ports. 2 of the 4 ports can be Electrical or Optical ports, enabling testing on
optical fiber links as well. The electrical ports support 10/100/1000 Mbps, and optical ports
User-defined VLAN ID, and MPLS support 1000 Mbps using SFP. PacketExpert™ 1G is available in portable as well as Rack mount
Labels
 platforms. The portable PacketExpert™ 1G platform supports all the features of high-end taps
providing mobility and storage capacity to reach any point in the network.

Quad Port—4 Electrical

(10/100/1000Mbps) + 2 Optical
Ports (1000Mbps)
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RFC 2544 over Layer2 through

Layer4 In Single port RFC 2544 test, the PacketExpert™ allows RFC 2544 specific tests on Port #2 or Port
 #3. The test is setup such that the traffic is transmitted on Port #2 and the PacketExpert™ at the
DUT end can be configured to loop the traffic back on the same port measuring the Tx and Rx
time thus calculating the latency. The RFC 2544 test can be run on either Port #2 or Port #3 at a
time.
Throughput, Latency, Frame Loss
Rate, & Back-to-Back
Measurements - RFC 2544
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Supports Stacked VLAN (Q-in-Q)

up to 3 Levels
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In Dual port RFC 2544 test, the PacketExpert™ allows RFC 2544 specific tests on Port #2 and Port
#3. The test is setup such that the traffic can be generated and transmitted on either of the ports
(Port #2 or Port #3) and the looped back traffic from the DUT is received on the opposite port
Report Generation in PDF & CSV validating the test parameters.
Formats
 For detailed information on PacketExpert™, visit https://www.gl.com/packetexpert-rfc-2544-ber-
loopback-testing.html#rfc2544testing
Features
Manual and Smart Loopback • Throughput, back-to-back, latency and frame loss testing supporting uni-directional and bi-
 directional traffic between ports
• Supports RFC 2544 on single or dual electrical / optical ports
• Includes various parameter configurations such as Test Selection, Frame Sizes selection,
Unidirectional/Bidirectional, Number of trials, Trial Duration, and many more.
Graphical Display for Easy to • User-defined options to configure various packet header parameters, like MAC addresses, IP
Visualize Test Results addresses, UDP ports, VLAN ID, MPLS Labels, and more.
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• Results are displayed in both tabular as well as graphical format.
• Console based CLI (TCL, C# and Python client) with additional CXE100 licenses provides the
capability of remote operation, and automation
Console based, GL’s WCS based,
TCL, C# and Python based CLI
Interfaces
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Global Configuration Port Level Statistics
Global configuration includes various parameter configurations Detailed statistics per port are provided. In addition to statistics
such as Test Selection, Frame Sizes, Unidirectional/Bidirectional, like Frame Count, Frame Rate, Link Utilization, others are
Number of Trials, Trial Duration, and many more. User-defined provided based on various categories like Frame Type (Unicast/
options to configure various packet header parameters like, MAC Broadcast/Multicast, VLAN), Frame Lengths (64, 65-127, 1024-
addresses, IP addresses, UDP ports, VLAN ID, MPLS Labels, and 1518, Oversized, Undersized), Protocol Type (IPv4, IPv6, UDP,
others. TCP, ICMP, IGRP, etc). VLAN Statistics (per Stack position), MPLS
Statistics (per stack position) are also displayed for the
configured stacks.

Figure: Global Configuration (Dual Port)

RFC 2544 Test Results

Results are displayed in both tabular as well as graph format.
Supports test report generation in both PDF and CSV formats.
Status – displays test status such as In Progress, Completed, and
Aborted. In addition, it displays status of learning frames and test
frames for the current trial along with Bandwidth, Frame Size, and
Frame Count.
Throughput – Throughput results are displayed in terms of
bandwidth (both in percentage as well as Mbps) for each frame
size. Graphically, it is plotted as throughput vs frame size. Command Line Interface (CLI)
Latency – Latency values are displayed in terms of microseconds PacketExpert™ is enhanced to support Command Line Interface
for each frame size. Graphically, the latency value is plotted against (CLI) to access all the functionalities remotely using TCL or
frame size. Python clients and MAPS™ CLI Server/Client architecture.
Back-to-Back – Back-to-Back values are displayed in terms of the The CLI supports all the PacketExpert™ test modules including -
burst size (in milliseconds) for each frame size. Graphically, the All Port Bert, Bert Loopback, All Port Loopback, RFC 2544, Record
burst size is plotted against frame size. Playback, ExpertSAM™ and PacketBroker.
Frame Loss – Frame Loss results are displayed in terms of the
throughput (in percentage) measured over the range of input rates Buyer’s Guide
(in percentage) for each frame size. Graphically, for each frame PXE100 – PacketExpert™ 1G
size, the throughput is plotted against the test rate. CXE100 - CLI support for PXE100
PXE104 - PacketExpert™ - SA (4 ports) 1G
PXE112 - PacketExpert™ -SA (12 Ports) 1G
PXE124 - PacketExpert™ -SA (24 Ports) 1G
PXE105 - Wire speed Record/Playback 1G
PXE106 - ExpertSAM 1G
PXE107 - PacketBroker 1G
PXE108– Multi Stream Traffic Generator and Analyzer
Refer https://www.gl.com/optical-and-ethernet-testing-
Figure: RFC 2544 Back-to-back Statistics and Graph packetexpert.html webpage.

818 West Diamond Avenue - Third Floor, Gaithersburg, MD 20878, U.S.A

(Web) https://www.gl.com/ - (V) +1-301-670-4784 (F) +1-301-670-9187 - (E-Mail) [email protected]

Document Number: PXE100-9.1.7-04