[138420] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Ethernet circuit testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Holmes,David A)
Mon Mar 7 19:13:55 2011
From: "Holmes,David A" <dholmes@mwdh2o.com>
To: Dustin Swinford <dustinnanog@gmail.com>, "nanog@nanog.org"
<nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 16:13:49 -0800
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EXFO purchased the BRIX active management system a couple of years ago. BRI=
X can be used to determine basic rtt, packet loss, jitter, and also contain=
s a suite of application tests such as ftp, various voice codecs, etc.
-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Swinford [mailto:dustinnanog@gmail.com]=20
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 12:07 PM
To: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Ethernet circuit testing
More often on Ethernet services, we experience a customer wanting to see
more than an Ookla based server test from our network. Our hands in the
field are limited in the number of Ethernet smart loopback devices that the=
y
own. If we do have a tester on site, we can generate traffic from an Exfo
purpose built appliance toward the loop and determine results. Too often,
we have found things such as ftp downloads to be unreliable based on use of
server, windows PC doing the download, etc. What other methods are you guy=
s
using for testing these services? =20
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