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RE: Ethernet performance tests

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathon Exley)
Wed Oct 27 20:11:23 2010

From: Jonathon Exley <Jonathon.Exley@kordia.co.nz>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:11:09 +1300
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimdCM2iqV4a1MCk23KAjHekfnTSZYVGkQ=nTdQ3@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

For comissioning testing, you can use a hardware packet generator to send p=
ackets to an Ethernet demarcation with a MAC-swap loopback, and analyse the=
 returned traffic.

For ongoing performance monitoring, having Y.1731 capable CPE is highly des=
irable.


Jonathon.

-----Original Message-----
From: Diogo Montagner [mailto:diogo.montagner@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Thursday, 28 October 2010 12:33 p.m.
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Ethernet performance tests

Hello everyone,

I am looking for performance test methodology for ethernet-based circuits. =
These ethernet circuits can be: dark-fiber, l2circuit (martini), l2vpn (kom=
pella), vpls or ng-vpls. Sometimes, the ethernet circuit can be a mix of th=
ese technologies, like below:

CPE <-> metro-e <-> l2circuit <-> l2vpn <-> l2circuit <-> metro-e <-> CPE

The goal is verify the performance end-to-end.

I am looking for tools that can check at least the following parameters:

- loss
- latency
- jitter
- bandwidth
- out-of-order delivery

At this moment I have been used IPerf to achieve these results. But I would=
 like to check if there is some test devices that can be used in situations=
 like that to verify the ethernet-based circuit performance.

The objective of these tests is to verify the signed SLAs of each circuit b=
efore the customer start to use it.

I checked all MEF specifications and I only find something related to perfo=
rmance for Circuit Emulation over Metro-E (which is not my case).

Appreciate your comments.

Thanks!
./diogo -montagner

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