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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