GL announces Ethernet/IP Testing for LANs and
WANs
GL Communications Inc., a global leader in telecom test and measurement solutions, addressed the press regarding their PC-based Ethernet/IP test tool, called PacketCheck™. A powerful and cost-effective, real-time test, and monitoring solution for LANs and WANs.
“PacketCheck™ is a PC-based Ethernet / IP test
tool that is powerful and cost-effective. It can be an invaluable tool to test
and verify LANs and WANs. The application supports Ethernet testing at all
protocol layers - from raw Ethernet frames to stacked VLAN, stacked MPLS, and
IP packets with UDP payloads. PacketCheck™ uses the PC’s network interface card
(NIC) to transmit and receive Ethernet or IP packets over LANs and WANs”, said
Vijay Kulkarni CEO of GL Communications.
He further added, “additional features include traffic simulation by the
transmission of pre-recorded files, GTP traffic simulation, and traffic
generation with IFG (Inter Frame Gap) of up to 5-millisecond accuracy. BER
testing capability with PRBS patterns or user-defined test patterns”.
Important features of PacketCheck™
- Generate/receive
Ethernet or IP traffic of up to 800 Mbps bandwidth
- Supports
minimum line rate of 64 bps
- Generates
full-duplex Ethernet, IP, or UDP traffic to Tx and/or Rx traffic on any
layer (Layer 1, Data Link with stacked VLAN/ MPLS, Network, Transport)
with on-demand bandwidth
- Supports
stacked VLAN (up to 3 stacks) and customizable stacked MPLS (up to 3
stacks)
- Measures
throughput, round trip delay, one-way delay, total packets, packet loss,
out of sequence frames, error frames, correct pattern frames
- BER
Testing - bit error rate, sync loss count, bit error count, PRBS pattern
generation/verification of various patterns like QRSS, 26-1, 29-1,
211-1, 215-1, 220-1, and 223-1
- Generate
run-time impairments including the ability to insert or delete bytes, and
byte-level impairments (AND, OR, XOR)
- Supports
Jumbo frames in addition to all normal frame sizes (64 bytes to 1518
bytes)
- Displays
stream-wise and aggregated statistics
- Create
test reports in XML or PDF formats
Source: GL Communications media announcement