10G tester recommendations?
We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be willing to share, negative or positive. Currently we're looking at the EXFO MAX-800 and NetScout's AT 10G, but we're open to other suggestions. Thank you! - bryan
We utilize the EXFO product line and it's a quality product. Dustin Dustin Jurman CEO Rapid Systems Corporation 1211 N. West Shore Blvd. Suite 711 Tampa, FL 33607 Ph: 813-232-4887 Cell: 813-892-7006 http://www.rapidsys.com “Building Better Infrastructure” -----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 3:09 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: 10G tester recommendations? We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be willing to share, negative or positive. Currently we're looking at the EXFO MAX-800 and NetScout's AT 10G, but we're open to other suggestions. Thank you! - bryan
We've used the Veex TX300 (now discontinued and replaced with the TX230S I believe) and been satisfied. Our primary use is RFC 2544 testing, so I don't know much about it's capabilities beyond that. On Tue, Oct 4, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Dustin Jurman <dustin@rseng.net> wrote:
We utilize the EXFO product line and it's a quality product.
Dustin
Dustin Jurman CEO Rapid Systems Corporation 1211 N. West Shore Blvd. Suite 711 Tampa, FL 33607 Ph: 813-232-4887 Cell: 813-892-7006 http://www.rapidsys.com “Building Better Infrastructure”
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 3:09 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: 10G tester recommendations?
We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be willing to share, negative or positive.
Currently we're looking at the EXFO MAX-800 and NetScout's AT 10G, but we're open to other suggestions.
Thank you!
- bryan
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We utilize the EXFO product line and it's a quality product.
Dustin
Dustin Jurman CEO Rapid Systems Corporation 1211 N. West Shore Blvd. Suite 711 Tampa, FL 33607 Ph: 813-232-4887 Cell: 813-892-7006 http://www.rapidsys.com “Building Better Infrastructure”
-----Original Message----- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Bryan Holloway Sent: Monday, October 3, 2016 3:09 PM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: 10G tester recommendations?
We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be willing to share, negative or positive.
Currently we're looking at the EXFO MAX-800 and NetScout's AT 10G, but we're open to other suggestions.
Thank you!
- bryan
On 3 October 2016 at 22:09, Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be willing to share, negative or positive.
What are you looking to test? Are you interested in having the kit emulate many devices? Do you want to be able to test QoS realistically? Do you care about one-way latency accurately? Or is this more about proving the physical media is fine? -- ++ytti
Mainly RFC2544 and physical media. QoS could be handy, but it's not as important as proving that the circuit is meeting our expectations from the carrier(s). On 10/4/16 1:12 PM, Saku Ytti wrote:
On 3 October 2016 at 22:09, Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
We're in the market for a hand-held 10G ethernet tester, and I was curious if the NANOG community had any recommendations or experiences they would be willing to share, negative or positive.
What are you looking to test? Are you interested in having the kit emulate many devices? Do you want to be able to test QoS realistically? Do you care about one-way latency accurately? Or is this more about proving the physical media is fine?
On 5 October 2016 at 15:54, Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
Mainly RFC2544 and physical media. QoS could be handy, but it's not as important as proving that the circuit is meeting our expectations from the carrier(s).
Then then EXFO is fine and much more affordable than Spirent or IXIA. -- ++ytti
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