Ethernet Network Emulators GEM, XGEM

Delay and Impairment Emulation for Ethernet Traffic

Benefits
• Test products and characterize
end user experience under
real world conditions
• Discover and fix network
related issues early
• Speed time-to-market
• Increase effectiveness of
validation, performance and
interop testing
• Precisely reproduce and Overview
quickly resolve issues Anue Systems Network Emulators enable users to test products and services
occurring in the field against the delay, impairment, and bandwidth conditions that occur on real
production Ethernet networks. Emulators are used in the lab to test applications,
Applications protocols, and end user experience under real world conditions prior to
• Networked Applications deployment. A wide range of features, line speeds, and protocols are supported
• Corporate LAN/WAN to meet your current and future needs.
Emulation
Anue Network Emulators offer a rich feature set to make testing accurate and
• Real time Apps: IPTV and VoIP
convenient.
• Circuit Emulation, Timing over
Packet TrueNetwork™–on-chip emulation technology for accuracy and precision
• WAN Acceleration • True line-rate performance and repeatability at 10GigE and 1GigE
• Business Continuity • Industry leading precision when emulating delay, packet jitter, packet
• Disaster Recovery corruption, drop, reorder, duplication, and fragmentation
• Powerful impairment flexibility includes dynamically changing impairment
• Server Consolidation/
profiles, filtering on specific impairments, and Router mode operation
Migration
• Storage Extension MyNetwork™–quickly create a test bed that matches your real network
• Wireless / Mobile • Record and replay the dynamic conditions found on the live network
• Leverage thousands of industry-standard models and test suites
• Satellite Network
• Quickly build your own custom network conditions
• 10Gig FCoE, iWARP
• Interoperability testing AnyNetwork™–flexibility to meet your current and future needs
• SLA planning and verification • Simultaneously run multiple unique network conditions to emulate different
classes of service or multiple paths through a network
• Multiprotocol support for SONET, SDH, OTN, Fibre Channel, CPRI,
Ethernet
• All proprietary and standard L2-L7 protocols and any frame size supported
• Application specific solutions for IPTV, multimedia, Carrier Ethernet, CES/
ToP and storage

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 Solutions for a Wide Range of Applications
Satellite
IPTV / VoIP
Anue emulators give you the ability to characterize
Anue provides a comprehensive set of unique capabilities
application performance over Satellite networks prior to
for evaluating IPTV and VoIP solutions. End user quality
deployment. Perform proof of concept testing from the
of experience can be realistically characterized before
comfort of your lab saving time and money by avoiding
deployment. Post deployment issues can be quickly
the need for expensive and complicated field trials. And
reproduced in the lab for troubleshooting.
reduce downtime by allowing you to quickly reproduce
• Record network conditions directly from a live network and troubleshoot network issues in the lab.
for playback in the lab
• Save time by leveraging over a thousand standards DC Migration and Disaster Recovery
based network models (TIA-921 / ITU-T G.1050) Minimize risk by proving a storage solution will work as
• Selectively impair MPEG I, P and B frames required in the real-world prior to deployment. Evaluate
performance of disaster recovery measures under failure
Carrier Ethernet scenarios
Anue Emulators are essential tools for making EOAM
• Recreate real-world bandwidth congestion, delay,
and carrier-class Ethernet services a reality. Applications
errors, frame loss, link failure
include: validating OAM capabilities; evaluating fail-over
protection performance; and comparing alternative protocol Storage – FCoE, FCIP
implementations. Anue provides the only inline solution for functional testing,
• Reuse and build proprietary or standard based Layer negative testing, and performance characterization of
2-7 protocols with the Customizable Filter Library FCoE, FCIP and Data Center Ethernet
• Use modification/corruption for precise functional and • Leverage FCoE and FCIP filter libraries
negative testing • Perform protocol negative testing with FCoE checksum
• Cause outage and degrade scenarios triggering fail- correction
over protection • Supports Ethernet and Fibre Channel 4x, 8x, 10x
Networked Application Performance Wireless / Mobile
Anue emulators are indispensable when rolling out a new Anue emulators are ideal for evaluating new mobile
application, moving or virtualizing an application server, services, applications or 4G technologies under real-world
evaluating WAN optimization technologies or opening a conditions. Quickly and accurately characterize quality
new remote office. Now application performance can be of Voice, Video and Data applications and validate next
easily and realistically tested in the lab prior to roll out. generation backhaul technologies.
• Determine the minimum bandwidth required to meet • Reuse and customize over a thousand standards based
Service Level Objectives (SLO) network models (TIA-921 / ITU-T G.1050)
• Record network conditions directly from a live network • Supports both Ethernet and CPRI
for playback in the lab
• Quickly reproduce post-deployment problems for
troubleshooting and improved MTTR
Circuit Emulation Services & Timing over Packet
Testing against mock-up networks is not repeatable or
realistic and is costly and inefficient. With Anue’s industry “We tested with software based
leading GEM emulators you can realistically and repeatably network emulation and we discovered
test your CES and ToP solutions with confidence. that it did not represent our network.
• Validate prior to certification testing with MEF-18 and With Anue’s FPGA based solution we
G.8261 Test Suites what we see in the lab is what we see
• Characterize clock recovery performance under realistic
delay variation when we finally roll out to production.”
• Record and playback delay characteristics from live
network with nanosecond accuracy

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 Feature Overview
Supported Interfaces Record Live Network Conditions - GEM
Line rate performance supported from 10Mbps through PROFILER
10Gbps Ethernet regardless of incoming packet size. • Agentless application records conditions of your live
• GEM – 10/100/1000 Base-T and optical GigE production network for playback in the lab.
• XGEM – 10Gig Ethernet with Optical and Copper CX4 • Record delay, jitter, loss, route flaps conditions for 30
days
Network Profiles – GEM and XGEM • Supports 50 simultaneous log sessions per instance
Network Profiles support emulating multiple “network • Repeatable playback of Profiler logs in lab with GEM
clouds” per interface. Emulate different paths through a
DELAY CAPTURE
network or different classes of service.
Hardware based capture of live network delay characteristics
• Each profile is defined by any combination of VLAN tag,
using GEM Capture Replay feature.
MPLS label, MAC/IP address (IPV4 , IPV6), TCP/UDP
• Nanosecond delay precision
port or any data up to 2000 bytes within the Ethernet
• Direct save to Network Playback format
frame
• Replay delay scenarios in lab with GEM
• Define unique bandwidth, delay and impairments per
profile TIA-921 & ITU-T G.1050 Network Models - GEM
Filter Libraries – GEM and XGEM Standards based network models designed to test
multimedia applications. Based on statistical information
Filter Libraries allow you to customize the emulator for your
gathered from leading Service Providers around the world.
specific protocol requirements.
• Characterize performance your solution against more
• Advanced Protocol Filter Suite provides a growing list
than a thousand dynamic scenarios for increased
of filters including PPP, PTP, RSVP, IP, FCoE, FIP, OSPF,
confidence
MPEG and many others
• Create custom scenarios
• Build your own filter libraries for any new standards
based or proprietary protocols MEF-18 and ITU-T G.8261 Test Suites – GEM
Delay • Complete set of network tests based on ITU-T G-8261-
2008
• Emulates static or variable delay occurring during
• Repeatable network models for MEF-18 certification
transmission of Ethernet data through a network
testing
• Introduce frame or packet delay variation (jitter)
• MEF-18 synchronization tests 6.1-6.8
• Optional delay extenders are available for extra delay
Impairment Highlights Network Playback - GEM
• Provides ultimate control and flexibility in creating
• Fixed and random impairment distributions
dynamic custom network impairment scenarios.
• Random and filtered or targeted impairments
• Create any impairment distribution needed with per
• Loss of Signal, Loss of Frame Synchronization
packet control.
• PCS, MAC and higher layer bit errors, CRC
• Define custom impairment table with delay, drop,
Capture and Replay – GEM and XGEM reorder and other impairments
Enables inline capturing of user specified test traffic for • Table entries are assigned on a per packet or time
further viewing and analysis of the data packets. Users can basis
upload and replay standard data files for traffic generation • Upload extremely large impairment tables for multi-day
as stand alone or background traffic source. scenarios or low frequency impairment content
• Bidirectional time-correlated capture IPTV - GEM
• Filtered or unfiltered data capture at up to 10GigE line
• Selectively drop H.262/H.264 I, B and P frames over IPv
rate
4/6
• Capture entire packets or first select number of bytes
• Corruption
• Trigger capture on incoming or outgoing event
• Drop, Reorder, Duplication, Modification, IP Fragment
• Replay any PCAP file with control over bandwidth, with
• Bandwidth Policing per MEF and Shaping
or without impairments
• IP, TCP/UDP, RSVP, FCoE checksum correction enables
• Independent Capture & Replay controls per Network
higher layer impairments
Profile
*Available Impairments are Emulator Load specific.

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 Dynamic Search Filter (DSF) - GEM
• Search entire TCP/UDP payload for a user defined
string pattern (up to 64 bytes) to trigger an impairment
event
• Define an impairment counter (prevents a TCP
timeout)
Statistics/Alarms
• Real time RX stats - disparity, code, sync and block
errors, invalid block IPG and idle errors, bandwidth
stats and more
• Stats for impairments introduced at output port IMPAIRMENTS
• Indicates alarms for Loss of Signal (LOS), Loss of Lock • Emulate loss of signal (LOS) and loss of framing sync
(LOL), (LOF)
• Loss of Frame sync (LOF), Code and disparity errors • Impairment rates: 100% to 3.73e-9 for GEM or 5.96e-8
• Detailed logging of blade and Network Profile for XGEM
statistics • Impairment distribution: Periodic, Poisson, Uniform or
• Graphical reports can be generated to pdf for review Gaussian
• Create impairments on selected packets:
Specifications • Packet/Frame Drop
Supported Interfaces • Reordering – within 255 packets
• Line rate performance supported from 10Mbps through • Duplicating up to 15 times (255 with XGEM)
10Gbps Ethernet regardless of incoming packet size. • CRC corruption
• GEM – 10/100/1000 Base-T and optical GigE • Data Corruption or Bit Errors and Modification
Network Profiles • Logical bit-errors at either the PCS and/or MAC
layers
GEM, XGEM • Higher layer error insertion with checksum
Configure unique throughput, delay and impairment correction
settings for each Network Profile. Emulate different classes • 1-bit to 32k-bit error burst – invert, all ones, all
of service (CoS) or different paths through a network or zeroes
target specific packets for impairment • Inject bit-errors from 10-12 to 10-3 rates
• GEM available with 1, 4, 8 or 16 profiles • Data Modification – up to 48 bytes per Network
• XGEM available with 1 or 4 profiles Profile
• Classify on up to any 32 bytes within an Ethernet frame. • Checksum correction: IP, TCP/UDP, RSVP (GEM)
For example MAC, IP address (IPV4 and IPV6), VLAN • Checksum correction: FCoE (XGEM)
tag, MPLS label, or a fixed byte offset or all of the • Impairment changes are dynamic and hitless (traffic not
above simultaneously interrupted) and stop/start of test never required
• Classify up to 2000 bytes deep with GEM and 255 bytes • Multiple impairments allowed on a single packet
deep with XGEM
• Bit wise filtering BANDWIDTH CONTROL
• Throttle bandwidth or police traffic bandwidth: 1kbps
DELAY to true full line rate in 1kbps step sizes
• Static or Variable (jittered) Delays • Individual Traffic Shaping and Bandwidth controls for
• Fully transparent operation: delayed output is logically each Network Profile
identical to input signal • Optionally generate Pause Frames
• Static delay leaves inter frame gap unchanged
• No modification of transmitted code words EXTERNAL TIMING REFERENCE INPUT
• GEM provides up to 2 seconds of delay for Gigabit • T1 BITS, E1 MTS RJ-48C
Ethernet and 20 seconds for 10/100Mbps Ethernet • 10MHz BNC
• XGEM provides up to 250ms of delay ADDITIONAL XGEM FEATURES
• Extra delay available • RX and TX IPG histogram
• RX Frame Length Histogram

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