Hello everyone,
I am looking for performance test methodology for ethernet-based circuits. These ethernet circuits can be: dark-fiber, l2circuit (martini), l2vpn (kompella), vpls or ng-vpls. Sometimes, the ethernet circuit can be a mix of these technologies, like below:
CPE <-> metro-e <-> l2circuit <-> l2vpn <-> l2circuit <-> metro-e <-> CPE
The goal is verify the performance end-to-end.
I am looking for tools that can check at least the following
EXFO also sells the BRIX SLA verifier, which calculates RTT, packet loss, and jitter for various applications running on top of the link layer. -----Original Message----- From: Tim Jackson [mailto:jackson.tim@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 27, 2010 6:54 PM To: Diogo Montagner Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: Ethernet performance tests We dispatch a technician to an end-site and perform tests either head->head with another test set, or to a loop at a far-end.. We do ITU-T Y.156sam/EtherSAM and/or RFC2544 tests depending on the customer requirements. (some customers require certain tests for x minutes) http://www.exfo.com/en/Products/Products.aspx?Id=370 ^--All of our technicians are equipped with those EXFO sets and that module. Also covers SONET/DS1/DS3 testing as well in a single easy(er) to carry set.. -- Tim On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner@gmail.com> wrote: parameters:
- loss - latency - jitter - bandwidth - out-of-order delivery
At this moment I have been used IPerf to achieve these results. But I would like to check if there is some test devices that can be used in situations like that to verify the ethernet-based circuit performance.
The objective of these tests is to verify the signed SLAs of each circuit before the customer start to use it.
I checked all MEF specifications and I only find something related to performance for Circuit Emulation over Metro-E (which is not my case).
Appreciate your comments.
Thanks! ./diogo -montagner