Ethernet performance tests

Thu Oct 28 02:31:53 UTC 2010

Exfo, JDSU, Fluke all offer hand held test sets that can run a rfc2544 (
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt) test.  Do you own the path between cpe
<-> cpe?  Remeber that for each km of fiber distance add about 4.9ms (one
way) of latency.  Do basline tests on your cpe gear so you know what you are
working with from the being.  Different tests at different speeds/cpe hand
off (1Gig fiber, 10Gig fiber, Copper @ 10/100/1000) so that all varations
are captured.

Did this at a pervious company, had to test everything in everything
deployable state.

On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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 at 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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-Mike Mainer