On 30/05/17 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote:
Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to the customer would be useful, But isn't mandatory. Doesn't need anything fancy, Like MPLS awareness, VLAN ID's..etc. Viavi, VeEX and EXFO all do products in this space; Viavi/JDSU and VeEX do quite low cost handhelds with a limited feature set (with reporting to USB sticks et al), EXFO's handheld is a bit chunkier but a bit more capable.
I quite liked the VeEX MX100e+ and Viavi Smartclass Ethernet units, they'll both do RFC2544. Having said that, you probably want to be testing Y.1564 (which those boxes will both do) if you're doing turn-up testing. Viavi and EXFO all have their own "flavours" which make things cleverer/easier if you have a basic environment, but I've found myself using the standards-based versions most of the time really. Lots of options for reflectors - all the vendors have them in various guises, if you have a VPLS setup then probably you'd go from a 1U box next to your VPLS box through the VPLS pipe through to the endpoint. We ended up buying a pair of EXFO FTB-1s but we're doing RFC2544 etc at 10G, so a slightly different kettle of fish. James