AresONE-400GE QSFP-DD High-Performance 4-Port Test System

Challenge: Scalability Testing in 400GE Devices and Networks

400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) technology is proliferating with many new 400GE-capable networking products already introduced to the industry. The deployment of 400GE promises more bandwidth in the datacenter at lower cost per gigabit compared to 100GE. 400GE hardware brings better economies of scale and denser configurations, especially of the lower speeds 2x200GE, 4x100GE and 8x50GE per 400GE physical port.

These critical factors save costs in operations. When it comes to testing new 400GE equipment, the same is true using Keysight’s Ixia AresOne-400GE High Performance test product.

Solution: Unprecedented Traffic and Protocol Emulation Performance

The Keysight AresONE-400GE High Performance fixed chassis provides the world’s highest-scale 400GE traffic generation, and network protocol emulation. AresONE High Performance goes beyond just performance and benchmark testing of your high-density 12.8Tbps networking devices—it delivers massive protocol scale on every fan-out port for unparalleled traffic generation performance and receiveside measurement scale over its supported 8x200GE, 16x100GE, and 32x50GE ports.

The Keysight AresONE-400GE High Performance fixed chassis provides the world’s highest-scale 400GE traffic generation, and network protocol emulation. AresONE High Performance goes beyond just performance and benchmark testing of your high-density 12.8Tbps networking devices—it delivers massive protocol scale on every fan-out port for unparalleled traffic generation performance and receiveside measurement scale over its supported 8x200GE, 16x100GE, and 32x50GE ports.

Highlights

• Keysight’s AresONE High Performance, 4-port 400GE QSFP-DD is the world’s highest traffic generation and protocol emulation scale and performance test solution available for 400/200/100/50GE QSFP-DD interfaces.

• Validate high protocol scale devices for performance and scalability with AresONE multi-speed 400/200/100/50GE test capabilities and Keysight’s IxNetwork Layer 2/3 test application.

• Test on massive scale, even in 400GE to 2x200GE, 4x100GE fan-out mode with no reduction in number of transmit streams and receive-side tracking per flow with full line-rate traffic and multi-protocol test scenarios.

• Simplify testing of transceivers and cables during testbed bring-up using L1 BERT, KP4 FEC, and PAM4 Rx Eye Histogram test features.

• Rely on proven IxNetwork test solution for validating mission-critical network infrastructure and IxSuiteStore for Layer 1 BERT and PCS lanes Tx/Rx test capability.

Massive Scale, Even in Fan-Out Mode

It enables many transmit stream counts per port with full line-rate traffic generation functionality for transmit, receive, and capture—even with fan-outs. This facilitates high-scale mixed protocol tests, large system-under-test (SUT) scenarios, and fail-over and convergence testing at large subscriber scales. The solution accommodates testing of pre-designed full-scale networks with multi-service protocol configurations. Those multi-day, highly complex RFC benchmark tests you want to run, are now a reality. AresONE High Performance excels at reliability and stress testing in high-port-count test beds. Plus, with the IxNetwork application, Keysight offers the broadest and highest-performance Layer 2/3 routing protocol emulation coverage available in the industry.

Before you run a large-scale test, use AresONE High Performance to validate the interoperability and robustness of your optics and cables—not after an error has occurred on interconnects, and potentially, days of testing are lost.