[174714] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Multi-port RFC2544/EtherSAM loopback appliance
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jerry Jones)
Sat Sep 27 01:19:12 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Jerry Jones <jjones@danrj.com>
In-Reply-To: <9D1503ED-3593-48E4-9D0C-29A0FA13D181@lixfeld.ca>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2014 21:25:57 -0500
To: Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Many ethernet termination devices will support most of the features it =
sounds like you are looking for. No clue what price range you consider =
but these may work for you.
Been a couple years since I played with the EtherSAM, but I think it =
supports two different testing options. One where the far end is on the =
same subnet and one which uses L3/IP. If you are on the same LAN =
segment, then pretty much any switch which supports loopback should work =
I think. Else, devices such as the Adva FSP150 or Juniper ACX or MX =
(probably a bit of overkill but very multi-purpose), or several =
different Ciena platforms come to mind.
On Sep 26, 2014, at 9:51 AM, Jason Lixfeld <jason@lixfeld.ca> wrote:
Group,
I'm looking for options and opinions on a cost effective, multi-port =
(6'ish port SFP/SFP+) RFC2544/EtherSAM rack appliance that can act as =
the remote/loopback for our field installers' portable RFC2544/EtherSAM =
enabled Exfo test sets.
I came across XenaNetworks XenaCompact which looks like it would fit the =
bill, but I'm sure there are others (save Ixia, Exfo and Fluke, which =
I'm pretty much excluding by default because I imagine they are likely =
completely out to lunch on price relative to the extremely simplified =
feature set we require).
Thanks in advance.
