Proving Gig Speed

Mark Tinka mark.tinka at seacom.mu
Wed Jul 18 12:05:32 UTC 2018



On 17/Jul/18 19:45, James Bensley wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> Our field engineers have 1G testers, but even at 1G they are costly
> (in 2018!), so none have 10Gbps or higher testers and we also only do
> this for those that demand it (i.e. no 20Mbps EFM customer ever asks
> for a JSDU/EXO test, because iPerf can easily max out such a link,
> only those that pay for say 1G over 1G get it). Hardware testers are
> the best in my opinion right now but it annoys me that this is the
> current state of affairs, in 2018, even for 1Gbps!

Truth.

Mark.



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