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With the push for a high speed, secure, virtualized and converged network, will your solution:

  • Support multiple 1GbE and 10GbE ports with the required performance?
  • Deliver high speed, low latency and lossless Ethernet in the data center to transport Fibre Channel over Ethernet?

The enterprise is in the midst of transformation as higher interface speeds ripple through workgroup and data center networks. Richer content is driving higher network bandwidth and more stringent traffic classification for proper QoS. This transformation is resulting in upgrades and expansion in the enterprise workgroup, campus/backbone and data centers around the world.

Enterprise Workgroup and Campus Connectivity

Spirent TestCenter easy-to-use, high-performance benchmarking accelerates testing of enterprise workgroup and campus/backbone solutions. Dozens of test wizards simplify test configuration and execution, while allowing advanced users to the control they need.

Data Center Switching Test Solutions

Data Center LAN-SAN Topology diagram

Growth of rack and blade servers with 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) connectivity is rapidly evolving data centers and backbone enterprise networks around the world. The ten-times speed increase of 10GbE at the server, and the introduction of Fibre Channel over Ethernet technology (FCoE), make it possible to eliminate up to half of the interfaces connected to each server and cut costs by reducing space, power and cabling. This convergence of technologies requires changes to Ethernet to accommodate the nearly lossless and extremely low latency of storage solutions. Spirent TestCenter’s patented latency measurement architecture and comprehensive Intelligent Results provides the coverage you need for the latest network advancements.

    Benefits

    Enterprise & Data Center Benefits

    • Improve productivity through simplified testing with wizards and NoCode™ automation
    • Save time by measuring Throughput, Latency and Jitter at the same time in automated RFC benchmark tests
    • Increase product quality through increased test realism by easily scaling the number of ports, subscribers, sessions, routes, tunnels, VLANs and stateful multi-play traffic on demand
    • Accurately evaluate the latest FCoE, DCE and CEE capabilities with realistic emulation and specification-compliant timing
    • Reduce Capex with one system for the test lifecycle with the architecture for 40GbE and 100GbE
    • Reduce Opex by driving 4.8 Terabits of traffic per rack while consuming 25% less power

    Features

    Enterprise & Data Center Features

    • Line rate Layer 2-7 traffic generation for realistic testing of converged enterprise and data center networks
    • RFC 2544 Network Interconnect, RFC 2889 Switch and RFC 3918 Multicast automated benchmark test wizards
    • Increase test realism by scaling the number of ports, end users, sessions, routes, tunnels, VLANs and stateful multi-play traffic on demand
    • Stateful FCoE and Fibre Channel Initialization Protocol (FIP) emulation per the latest specifications
    • DCE and CEE PFC and Priority Groups testing of IEEE 802.1Qbb and 802.1Qaz
    • Simultaneous generation and analysis of FCoE with DCE/CEE, unicast and multicast L2-7 traffic in one GUI with correlated results
    • 10GbE line rate nano-second accurate latency and jitter per VLAN priority

    Specification

    Access

    DHCP, DHCPv6, DHCP-PD, PPPoA, PPPoE, PPP KeepAlive, PAP, CHAP

    Data

    Stateful TCP, HTTP, FTP

    Data Center

    FCoE, FIP

    Ethernet

    UDP, IP RAW

    Multicast

    IGMPv1, IGMPv2, IGMPv3, MLDv1, MLDv2

    Network

    802.1pq VLAN, VLAN CoS, Q-in-Q VLAN, IPv4, IPv6, ARP, ICMP(PING), IPv6 Neighbor Discovery, RVSP-TE, LDP, MPLS, VPLS, L2TP, ANCP

    Routing

    BFD, PIM-SM, PIM-SSM, LACP, ISIS, OSPFv2, OSPFv3, BGPv4, RIP, RIPv2, RFC-2547, 6PE, 6VPE, Multicast VPN

    Video

    MPEG Video Server, MPEG-2, MPEG-2TS, MPEG-4, VC-1, VMOS

    Voice

    SIP

    Documents

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    • Brochure: Spirent TestCenterSpirent TestCenter is the industry’s leader for delivering the realism necessary to measure the true impact on QoS and QoE.
    • Spirent TestCenter Application Layer Protocol Test Solution DatasheetSpirent’s Application Layer Protocols provide users the ability to analyze the impact on stateful traffic when conducting traditional benchmark tests such as Throughput, Latency and Loss.
    • Spirent TestCenter DHCP Base Package DatasheetThe Spirent TestCenter DHCP Base Package enables service providers and network equipment manufacturers to quickly test the scalability and performance of access networks, DHCP servers and relay agents.
    • Spirent TestCenter FCoE, FIP and DCBX Testing Package DatasheetWith the FCoE, FIP and DCBX testing package hundreds to thousands of virtual machines can be emulated with Spirent TestCenter to test data center fabrics.
    • Spirent TestCenter Hardware and Base Package MatrixHardware and Base Package Matrix for Spirent TestCenter.
    • Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics AP Module DatasheetThe HyperMetrics AP 8-port 1GbE and 2-port 10GbE test modules combine Spirent TestCenter’s network emulation and traffic generation with line rate Avalanche application traffic.
    • Spirent TestCenter HyperMetrics CM Module DatasheetHyperMetrics 4- and 12-port Gigabit Ethernet test modules, previously offered as TestCenter EDM-3000 series, combine Spirent TestCenter’s NW emulation and traffic generation with line rate Avalanche application traffic delivering the highest performance L2-7 test solution available on a single module.
    • Spirent TestCenter IGMP/MLD Host IP Multicast Base Package DatasheetThe IGMP/MLD Host IP Multicast Base Package is a Spirent TestCenter component that helps SPs, large Enterprises and NEMs quickly evaluate & troubleshoot host-to-router multicast behavior & the performance of networks & networking devices.
    • Spirent TestCenter Multiple Spanning Tree Base Package DatasheetThe Multiple Spanning Tree Base Package provides the emulation of Multiple Spanning Tree (MST) Protocol as defined by IEEE Standard 802.1s-2002 and 802.1q-2003.
    • Spirent TestCenter RFC-2544 Benchmarking Test Package DatasheetThis package provides automated performance testing of L2/L3 network devices per IETF RFC 2544, Benchmarking Methodology for Network Interconnect Devices.
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    White Papers

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    • Data Center Testing White PaperThis white paper aims to help network professionals understand the issues involved in data center validation and performance benchmarking.
    • EANTC/Spirent Cloud Computing Testing WhitepaperThis whitepaper details the methodology and results for a series of tests conducted by EANTC together with Spirent.
    • Evaluating, Selecting & Deploying WAN Acceleration Solutions White PaperThis white paper highlights WAN performance issues.
    • EANTC: Testing Cisco's Mobile Core, Data Center and Business Services White PaperEANTC's testing team spent four weeks at Cisco's labs validating solutions presented to them. This white paper is the second feature highlighting the results of this test.
    • EANTC: Testing Cisco's Next-Generation Mobile IP Network SolutionHow do we get from today's voice-driven networks to tomorrow's heavily broadband-enabled solutions?
    • Testing MPLS-TP Deployments in the Mobile Backhaul WhitepaperThis white paper explores why MPLS-TP is now emerging at this stage in the convergence journey, the applicability of MPLS-TP in the mobile backhaul and access networks and the importance of testing new MPLS-TP deployments.
    • Network World: 10 GbE SwitchesArista, Blade share top spot in switch test. Grueling performance testing exposes weaknesses in Cisco and HP switches.
    • Network Test: 10 Essential Benchmarks for High-Performance Data CentersThis in depth white paper from Network Test covers 10 test sets that should be a mandatory part of any comprehensive evaluation of data center switching. It also describes the less-than-ideal practices that should be avoided.
    • How to Validate Network Applications Before you DeployIf your company is like most organizations in today’s network-centric world, you need to ensure that your applications run properly over private and public Wide Area Networks (WANs).
    • Spirent Journal of Access and Edge PASS Test MethodologiesThis Spirent Catalog of Test Methodologies represents an element of the Spirent test ecosystem that helps answer the most critical Performance, Availability, Security and Scale Tests (PASS) test cases.
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