WHITEPAPER Joan d’Austria, 112 - Barcelona - SP - 08018 Chalfont St Peter - Bucks - UK - SL9 9TR www.albedotelecom.com Ethernet Traffic Generation One of the key features of Ether.Genius / Ether.Sync / Ether.Giga tester fami- lies is the ability to generate traffic with deterministic and random bandwidth profiles. The traffic generation feature can be used to stress the network, sim- ulate user traffic and, if a suitable payload is configured, to measure critical net- work performance parameters like bit errors, packet loss or latency. The above mentioned Ethernet testers manufactured by ALBEDO, have eight in- dependent full featured traffic generators attached to the main test port (Port A). Each traffic flow may be configured with specific encapsulation and ad- dressing parameters thus providing great versatility in all applications requiring Ethernet and IP traffic generation. 1. GENERATION OF ETHERNET TRAFFIC In Ether.Genius / Ether.Sync / Ether.Giga testers, generation of custom Ether- net frames is available for Port A in Ethernet endpoint mode through the Frame, Bandwith profile and Payload settings for each of the eight available traffic flows. This is a short description of the Ethernet traffic generation menus: Figure 1 ALBEDO Ether.Giga is a field tester for Ethernet equipped with all the features to install and maintain Ethernet infrastructures supporting legacy features such as BER and RFC2544 while new test such as eSAM Y.1564. All rights reserved. No part of this document may be stored, copied or transmitted, by any means, without the permission in written of the Legal Owner © 2013 ALBEDO Telecom T EST- LABOS- EST- ALBEDO Telecom - Registered in Barcelona, Book 41613, Page 155, Sheet B-390886 - VAT : ESB6523022 TAPS Figure 2 voice / tvvoice /data / - WAN EMULATION - E1 - GBE - SYNCE - WLESS - LTE - 3G - IPTV - VoIP - QoS - SLA - ONEWAY - DATACOM - POLQA - PTP -JITTER -WAN - DATACOM - POLQA - PTP -SLAONEWAY - VoIPQoS -3GIPTV -LTE -SYNCE -WLESS -GBE WAN EMULATION -E1 - ALBEDO Ether.Genius / Ether.Sync / Ether.Giga field testers in field operation.testers / Ether.Giga / Ether.Sync ALBEDO Ether.Genius mobile backhaul M T eSAM, QinQ, MPLS QinQ, eSAM, y.1564 &rfc2544 y.1564 Multistream IPTV pass ether.sync Physical LayerSettings • • • Networking &Telecoms played in greencolor. namics butthey arecontrolled by theRUN button as well. like theRFC 2544ortheeSAMhavetheir requests /an replies evenifthereisnot traffic orreplytocertain messagesechoerate signalling likeARPorICMP test trafficisgenerated if you don’t Frame generation capability iscontro interfaces. framed in BER testing for 1 only) isused (flow payload TheBERT loss. and packet ter jit- delay, measure the userto enables The SLApayload frames. 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