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RE: Ethernet performance tests
From: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes () mwdh2o com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 11:13:58 -0700
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:
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
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
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- RE: Ethernet performance tests Holmes,David A (Nov 01)
- Re: Ethernet performance tests Diogo Montagner (Nov 06)