On 30/05/17 16:22, Nick Olsen wrote: > Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, > Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I > wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to the customer > would be useful, But isn't mandatory. Doesn't need anything fancy, Like > MPLS awareness, VLAN ID's..etc. Viavi, VeEX and EXFO all do products in this space; Viavi/JDSU and VeEX do quite low cost handhelds with a limited feature set (with reporting to USB sticks et al), EXFO's handheld is a bit chunkier but a bit more capable.
I quite liked the VeEX MX100e+ and Viavi Smartclass Ethernet units, they'll both do RFC2544. Having said that, you probably want to be testing Y.1564 (which those boxes will both do) if you're doing turn-up testing. Viavi and EXFO all have their own "flavours" which make things cleverer/easier if you have a basic environment, but I've found myself using the standards-based versions most of the time really. Lots of options for reflectors - all the vendors have them in various guises, if you have a VPLS setup then probably you'd go from a 1U box next to your VPLS box through the VPLS pipe through to the endpoint. We ended up buying a pair of EXFO FTB-1s but we're doing RFC2544 etc at 10G, so a slightly different kettle of fish. James
