XGEM: 10 Gigabit Ethernet Network Simulators

Anue XGEM Advance Ethernet Network Simulators are ideal for testing 10 Gigabit Ethernet or IP based networking solutions in a lab environment. Ethernet Network Simulators can reproduce the delay and impairments experienced by Ethernet signals across MANs and WANs regardless of the underlying transport mechanism.

Does your solution:

• Work properly in the presence of delay and packet jitter?
• Detect and handle errored frames?
• Accommodate frames that are dropped, fragmented, duplicated or out of sequence?
• Keep VLAN traffic segmented?

 Anue XGEM Network Simulators:

• Run 100% line rate traffic at 10Gbps
• Support differential impairment for up to 64 profiles based on user-defined filters
• Can be automated or operated interactively, locally or remotely
• Are accurate down to one-bit time increments
• Provide delay of 250ms or more at all bit rates

Hawaii Network Simulator Hardware Platform

The XGEM Network Simulator is available on the Hawaii platform, a 2U rack-mount chassis that supports data rates up to 11.3Gbps and up to 7 software loads.

Supported rates

• 10G-LW WAN Phy (9.953Gbps)
• 10G-LR LAN Phy (10.312Gbps)
• FEC rates (11.049Gbps and 11.095Gbps)

 Profiles

• Define up to 64 distinct network profiles emulating 64 network clouds.
• Create up to 512 rules to identify profiles.
• Define throughput, delay and impairment profiles for each profile.

 Selection Criteria

• Data-based rules can be defined using a variable-length mask (1 to 32 bytes long) to match data anywhere within an Ethernet frame. For example a rule could match MAC address, IP address, VLAN tag, a fixed byte offset or all of the above simultaneously.
• Deterministic rules can be defined to select at regular intervals (every Nth packet) or at randomly distributed intervals (Poisson, Gaussian, Uniform).

Delay/Jitter

• Define a delay value for each network profile.
• Insert from 50us to 250ms of packet delay in 26ns increments with the standard configuration at true full line rate.
• Shift code word alignment from 0 and 19 bits in 1-bit increments.
• Introduce inter-packet delay variation (jitter) accurately.
• Increase maximum delay with a Delay Doubler and Quadrupler (even greater delay amounts are available upon request).

 Error

• Set error rates from 10^-12 to 10^-2 at Layer 1 or MAC layer.
• Inject errors at a fixed rate (periodic) or randomly with a Uniform, Poisson or Gaussian distribution.
• Error 1 bit, 32 contiguous bits or a 32-bit user-defined error pattern.
• Target specific bytes for error or modification.

 Impairments

• Configure impairment settings per profile.
• Drop
• Reorder
• Duplicate
• Fragment
• Corrupt CRC
• Corrupt data
• Inject Loss of Signal.
• Optionally fix the Ethernet CRC or IP checksum.
• Combine multiple impairments on a single packet.
• Modify impairments configuration without interrupting traffic flow.

Bandwidth Control

• Limit throughput to a minimum of 0.005% of line rate (50kbps at 1GigE).
• Optionally generate Pause Frames. High-water and low-water (generation of XOFF & XON) thresholds are specified by the user in terms of surplus/deficit of bytes.

 Operation

• Configure via a front panel LCD control for standalone operation
• Configure remotely via an Ethernet control port
• Interactive: Browser-based GUI with save/load capability
• Automated: Powerful TCL script library

XGEM Software Loads for the Hawaii Platform

GE10 Network Simulators

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GE10 Software Loads for the Hawaii Platform

Note: Up to 7 software loads for different protocols (SONET, OTN, Ethernet, Fibre Channel, CPRI) can be combined on the same system. A combo network simulator can easily switch between different features, data rates and protocols, simplifying testing and leveraging your investment. [view Network Emulator Combo products]