[131562] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Ethernet performance tests
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Diogo Montagner)
Wed Oct 27 22:45:58 2010
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTimwGpBnQkXvdM4uKdYHTYPLY0yP9i9P82QFvDiO@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2010 10:45:50 +0800
From: Diogo Montagner <diogo.montagner@gmail.com>
To: Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Hello everyone!!!
Thank you for all answers. These answers are really what I was looking for!=
!!!
Regards
./diogo -montagner
On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com> wrote=
:
> Each KM does not ad 4.9ms......
>
> More like ~1msec per 100km...
>
> 1/4/msec usually per OEO conversion (depends on the box)...
>
> --
> Tim
>
> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 9:31 PM, Mike Mainer <mmainer@tekinside.com> wrot=
e:
>> Exfo, JDSU, Fluke all offer hand held test sets that=A0can run a rfc2544
>> (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2544.txt)=A0test.=A0 Do you own the path bet=
ween cpe
>> <-> cpe?=A0 Remeber that for each km of fiber distance add about 4.9ms (=
one
>> way) of latency.=A0 Do basline tests on your cpe gear so you know what y=
ou are
>> working with from the being.=A0 Different tests at different speeds/cpe =
hand
>> off (1Gig fiber, 10Gig fiber, Copper @ 10/100/1000) so that all varation=
s
>> are captured.
>>
>> Did this at a pervious company, had to test everything in everything
>> deployable state.
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Oct 27, 2010 at 6:54 PM, Tim Jackson <jackson.tim@gmail.com> wro=
te:
>>>
>>> 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=3D370
>>> ^--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 paramete=
rs:
>>> >
>>> > - 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
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -Mike Mainer
>>
>
