[131558] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethernet performance tests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Jackson)
Wed Oct 27 21:54:29 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimdCM2iqV4a1MCk23KAjHekfnTSZYVGkQ=nTdQ3@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 20:54:20 -0500
From: Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com>
To: Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
We dispatch a technician to an end-site and perform tests either
head->head with another test set, or to a loop at a far-end..
We do ITU-T Y.156sam/EtherSAM and/or RFC2544 tests depending on the
customer requirements. (some customers require certain tests for x
minutes)
http://www.exfo.com/en/Products/Products.aspx?Id=370
^--All of our technicians are equipped with those EXFO sets and that
module. Also covers SONET/DS1/DS3 testing as well in a single easy(er)
to carry set..
--
Tim
On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:32 PM, Diogo Montagner
<diogo.montagner@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am looking for performance test methodology for ethernet-based
> circuits. These ethernet circuits can be: dark-fiber, l2circuit
> (martini), l2vpn (kompella), vpls or ng-vpls. Sometimes, the ethernet
> circuit can be a mix of these 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 before the customer start to use it.
>
> I checked all MEF specifications and I only find something related to
> performance for Circuit Emulation over Metro-E (which is not my case).
>
> Appreciate your comments.
>
> Thanks!
> ./diogo -montagner
>
>
