[194748] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Shawn L via NANOG)
Tue May 30 12:02:14 2017
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2017 12:02:10 -0400 (EDT)
To: "Jeremy Austin" <jhaustin@gmail.com>
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From: Shawn L via NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
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=0AJDSU make some nice ones that we use to qualify cell tower back haul. N=
ot cheap though=0A =0A=0A=0A-----Original Message-----=0AFrom: "Jeremy Aust=
in" <jhaustin@gmail.com>=0ASent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:29am=0ATo: "James=
Breeden" <James@arenalgroup.co>, "nick@flhsi.com" <nick@flhsi.com>, "nanog=
@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>=0ASubject: Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment=0A=
=0A=0A=0AJW, have you moved on to EtherSAM? That's what I'd be looking for =
myself.=0AOn Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:28 AM James Breeden <James@arenalgroup.=
co> wrote:=0A=0A> When we had to do this once in a blue moon, we just bough=
t a pair of old=0A> Agilent Framescopes off ebay. They worked great but we =
had issues getting=0A> reporting out of them. They had RJ45 and SFP on them=
.=0A>=0A> -----Original Message-----=0A> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+=
james=3Darenalgroup.co@nanog.org] On=0A> Behalf Of Nick Olsen=0A> Sent: Tue=
sday, May 30, 2017 10:23 AM=0A> To: nanog@nanog.org=0A> Subject: RFC2544 Te=
sting Equipment=0A>=0A> Greetings all,=0A>=0A> Looking for a good test set.=
Primary use will be testing L2 circuits=0A> (It'll technically be VPLS, Bu=
t the test set will just see L2). Being able=0A> to test routed L3 would al=
so be useful. Most of the sets I've seen are two=0A> sided, A "reflector" a=
t the remote side, And the test set in hand run by=0A> the technician.=0A>=
=0A> Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet lo=
ss,=0A> Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical p=
ort, I=0A> wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to th=
e customer=0A> would be useful, But isn't mandatory. Doesn't need anything =
fancy, Like=0A> MPLS awareness, VLAN ID's..etc.=0A>=0A>=0A> Nick Olsen=0A> =
Sr. Network Engineer=0A> Florida High Speed Internet=0A> (321) 205-1100 x10=
6=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>=0A>
