Testing 1gbps bandwidth

Chuck Reynolds creynolds at tsieda.com
Tue Aug 14 18:23:28 UTC 2012


You can make your own endpoints, do full BERT and loop back RFC compliant testing for a small investment with PacketExpert from TSI. Reach out for a demo thanks 

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On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:11 PM, Nathan Eisenberg <nathan at atlasnetworks.us> wrote:

>> Is there any other suggestion for this testing?
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> As a general tool, I rather like PathTest - it's free and versatile, you just have to have a daemon somewhere on the other end of the circuit (even if that's multiple AS's away) that can deliver sufficient throughput for the test.  It's far more efficient than a flash based test.  Even a very modest laptop which chokes at 70Mbps in flash can do a few hundred Mbps with it, and anything decent can do a full gig and up.
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> I realize that doesn't help you find an endpoint in the Middle East to test against, but at least now you have a better tool.  :)
> 
> Nathan Eisenberg
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