[117150] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network load test equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Buraglio)
Wed Sep 2 16:03:30 2009
From: Nick Buraglio <buraglio@illinois.edu>
In-Reply-To: <4A9EC850.5040404@utah.edu>
Date: Wed, 2 Sep 2009 15:02:47 -0500
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've used Spirent, IXIA and Anritsu test gear and I prefer the Anritsu
boxes, even if they are a tad more complicated to configure. There
are places that you can rent stuff like that (I've rented OTDRs in the
past) but the details escape me.
nb
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Nick Buraglio
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On Sep 2, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Tom Ammon wrote:
> We've used Spirent with a lot of success. They have a good lease
> program, too:
>
> www.spirent.com
>
> Tom
>
> Greg Schwimer wrote:
>> I'm looking for equipment that can be used to load test network
>> equipment
>> such as switches, routers, firewall, and load balancers with pre-
>> defined
>> traffic patterns at differing rates. Ideally, this is only
>> something I
>> think I'll need 2-3x a year, so purchasing is not necessarily
>> justifiable.
>> I'd prefer to rent. What products have you used? Where did you
>> get them
>> from?
>>
>> I need to be able to run pre-defined traffic patterns at various
>> rates, in
>> excess of 10Gbps in most cases.
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Greg
>>
>
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