More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that they own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often, we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guys using for testing these services?
EXFO purchased the BRIX active management system a couple of years ago. BRIX can be used to determine basic rtt, packet loss, jitter, and also contains a suite of application tests such as ftp, various voice codecs, etc. -----Original Message----- From: Dustin Swinford [mailto:dustinnanog@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 12:07 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Ethernet circuit testing More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that they own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often, we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guys using for testing these services?
http://documents.exfo.com/specsheets/ETS-1000L-angHR.pdf <http://documents.exfo.com/specsheets/ETS-1000L-angHR.pdf>We use these for testing, much cheaper than a full test set... On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:06 PM, Dustin Swinford <dustinnanog@gmail.com>wrote:
More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that they own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often, we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guys using for testing these services?
RFC2544 testers. On Tue, Mar 8, 2011 at 4:06 AM, Dustin Swinford <dustinnanog@gmail.com> wrote:
More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that they own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often, we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guys using for testing these services?
I've heard good things from a neighbor service provider that uses EXFO's EtherSAM. Frank -----Original Message----- From: Dustin Swinford [mailto:dustinnanog@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:07 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Ethernet circuit testing More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that they own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often, we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guys using for testing these services?
We use the EXFO 860's. Great product, rugged and Accurate. Sent from my iPhone On Mar 7, 2011, at 9:41 PM, "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com> wrote:
I've heard good things from a neighbor service provider that uses EXFO's EtherSAM.
Frank
-----Original Message----- From: Dustin Swinford [mailto:dustinnanog@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:07 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Ethernet circuit testing
More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that they own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often, we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guys using for testing these services?
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