GL Conveys the Availability of its Product PacketExpert Quad Port Ethernet / VLAN / MPLS / IP / UDP Tester

Gaithersburg, Maryland (PRWEB) June 16, 2012

GL Communications Inc. a leader in providing PC-based test, analysis and simulation products and consulting services to the worldwide telecommunications industry, conveyed today the availability of its product PacketExpert – portable (USB based) Quad Port Ethernet / VLAN / MPLS / IP / UDP Tester.

Speaking to media persons, Mr. Jagdish Vadalia Senior Manager said, PacketExpert is a portable (USB based) Quad Port Ethernet / VLAN / MPLS / IP / UDP Tester with 4 Electrical Ethernet Ports (10/100/1000 Mbps) and 2 Optical Ports (1000 Mbps). It connects to a Notebook PC through a USB 2.0 interface. Each port provides independent Ethernet/VLAN/MPLS/IP/UDP testing at wire speed for applications such as BERT, RFC 2544, and Loopback. It truly takes confusion out of Ethernet testing at all protocol layers – from Layer1 frames to IP/UDP packets. It can be used as a general purpose Ethernet to IP performance analysis tool for 10 Mbps, 100 Mbps and 1 Gbps Ethernet local area networks and wide area networks. Two of the 4 ports have both Electrical and optical interfaces, enabling testing on optical fiber links as well.

He added, PacketExpert provides 3 important functionalities Wire speed BERT, Smart Loopback, and RFC 2544 Testing. It can perform Wire speed BERT (Bit Error Rate Testing) on all ports simultaneously over Layer1, Framed Ethernet (Layer2), Stacked VLAN (Q-in-Q), Stacked MPLS (Layer 2.5), IP and UDP. It can generate and receive various BER patterns, including various PRBS patterns, to properly test the Ethernet to IP link. It analyzes the received BER traffic and provides various vital measurements such as Bit Error Rate, Bit Error Count, Sync Loss Count, Sync Loss Seconds, and Error Free Seconds. PacketExpert also gives a real time graphical representation of the Bit Error count, plotted over time.

Mr. Vadalia further added, PacketExpert supports Throughput, Latency, Frame Loss and Back to Back test as specified in RFC 2544. Similar to BERT, RFC 2544 testing can be done over Framed Ethernet (Layer2), Stacked VLAN (Q-in-Q), Stacked MPLS (Layer 2.5), IP and UDP. The results can be viewed in tabular as well as graphical format. It also generates reports in pdf and csv format for the RFC 2544 tests and BERT. With the capability to generate/receive traffic with stacked VLAN (Q-in-Q) and stacked MPLS, PacketExpert finds use in testing a wide range of networks from testing individual links/switches, testing local Ethernet/IP networks (LAN), end to end testing of Wide Area Networks (WAN), testing Core/MPLS networks, and much more.

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GL Conveys the Availability of its Product PacketExpert Quad Port Ethernet / VLAN / MPLS / IP / UDP Tester

Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (PRWEB) December 17, 2012 GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its enhanced PacketCheck – a Software Based Ethernet Tester. Speaking to reporters, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni CEO of the company said, GL’s enhanced PacketCheck is a complete PC based Ethernet / IP test tool with BERT, Throughput, Delay, and Impairment testing functions. It is very easy to use as a general-purpose network performance analysis tool for 10Mbps, 100Mbps and 1Gbps LANs and WANs. Throughput up to 800 Mbps can be easily tested. He explained new feature introduced, PacketCheck applications One-Way Delay – [within the same PC] is defined as the time a packet takes to travel from source to destination. It determines One-way Delay – [within the same PC] measurements between two NIC cards on a single PC with 2 instances of PacketCheck running, one on each NIC card in microsecond accuracy. The feature Stacked VLAN allows different hosts to be a part of the same virtual LAN irrespective of their physical location. A group of hosts connected to the same switch can be partitioned into several VLANs, or a group of hosts connected to different switches can be combined into a single VLAN. Stacked MPLS feature supports stacked MPLS layers up to 3 levels, customizable with headers like Label, CoS, TTL. The application now supports True Bit error rate testing (BERT) on layer 1, layer 2, layer 2.5, layer 3, and layer 4 with various measurements – Bit Error Rate, Sync Loss Count, Bit Error Count, and more. Its capability to generate/respond to ARP requests making it easy to work with Routers. ARP packets are sent to determine the MAC address of the destination. The application supports Common Statistics and Stream Specific Statistics. Common Statistics are stream independent at the NIC card level. These statistics are gathered before stream level statistics processing and these statistics helps user to check if the NIC card is receiving any traffic, and if receiving, if it is non-test traffic i.e. traffic not belonging to any of the configured streams. Stream Specific Statistics provide per stream measurement of throughput, round trip delay (RTD), one way delay (OWD)- [within the same PC], total packets, packet loss, out of sequence frames, error frames, correct pattern frames, pattern sync status, bit error rate, sync loss count, error count etc. Report generation feature now supports both XML and PDF formats. Reports include information such as the Statistics, Configuration Information, NIC card details, Stream Statistics, Common Statistics, VLAN, MPLS, etc with customizable headers and footers. Users can include their comments and logo in the report. Mr. Kulkarni further added, We hope our enhanced PacketCheck provides immense value in software based Ethernet testing and its user community. Other features include: GL Announces Enhanced PacketCheck w/ Stacked VLAN, MPLS and XML Reports

Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA (PRWEB) December 17, 2012

GL Communications Inc. announced today the release of its enhanced PacketCheck – a Software Based Ethernet Tester.

Speaking to reporters, Mr. Vijay Kulkarni CEO of the company said, GL’s enhanced PacketCheck is a complete PC based Ethernet / IP test tool with BERT, Throughput, Delay, and Impairment testing functions. It is very easy to use as a general-purpose network performance analysis tool for 10Mbps, 100Mbps and 1Gbps LANs and WANs. Throughput up to 800 Mbps can be easily tested.

He explained new feature introduced, PacketCheck applications One-Way Delay – [within the same PC] is defined as the time a packet takes to travel from source to destination. It determines One-way Delay – [within the same PC] measurements between two NIC cards on a single PC with 2 instances of PacketCheck running, one on each NIC card in microsecond accuracy.

The feature Stacked VLAN allows different hosts to be a part of the same virtual LAN irrespective of their physical location. A group of hosts connected to the same switch can be partitioned into several VLANs, or a group of hosts connected to different switches can be combined into a single VLAN.

Stacked MPLS feature supports stacked MPLS layers up to 3 levels, customizable with headers like Label, CoS, TTL.

The application now supports True Bit error rate testing (BERT) on layer 1, layer 2, layer 2.5, layer 3, and layer 4 with various measurements – Bit Error Rate, Sync Loss Count, Bit Error Count, and more. Its capability to generate/respond to ARP requests making it easy to work with Routers. ARP packets are sent to determine the MAC address of the destination.

The application supports Common Statistics and Stream Specific Statistics. Common Statistics are stream independent at the NIC card level. These statistics are gathered before stream level statistics processing and these statistics helps user to check if the NIC card is receiving any traffic, and if receiving, if it is non-test traffic i.e. traffic not belonging to any of the configured streams.

Stream Specific Statistics provide per stream measurement of throughput, round trip delay (RTD), one way delay (OWD)- [within the same PC], total packets, packet loss, out of sequence frames, error frames, correct pattern frames, pattern sync status, bit error rate, sync loss count, error count etc.

Report generation feature now supports both XML and PDF formats. Reports include information such as the Statistics, Configuration Information, NIC card details, Stream Statistics, Common Statistics, VLAN, MPLS, etc with customizable headers and footers. Users can include their comments and logo in the report.

Mr. Kulkarni further added, We hope our enhanced PacketCheck provides immense value in software based Ethernet testing and its user community.

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GL Announces Enhanced PacketCheck w/ Stacked VLAN, MPLS and XML Reports