[138440] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Ethernet circuit testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Frank Bulk)
Tue Mar 8 00:40:54 2011
From: "Frank Bulk" <frnkblk@iname.com>
To: "'Dustin Swinford'" <dustinnanog@gmail.com>,
<nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <61CFCA0622DF4996973497EC3B407FF1@dlaptop>
Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2011 23:40:47 -0600
Reply-To: frnkblk@iname.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
I've heard good things from a neighbor service provider that uses EXFO's
EtherSAM.
Frank
-----Original Message-----
From: Dustin Swinford [mailto:dustinnanog@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, March 07, 2011 2:07 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 they
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 guys
using for testing these services?
