Ethernet Traffic Emulators Catalog

This catalog highlights Keysight’s Ethernet traffic emulation portfolio, including L2–L7 protocol and load test software and high‑performance hardware accelerators for validating next‑generation networking systems, ASICs, AI data center environments, and hyperscale deployments with realistic, repeatable traffic at speeds up to 1.6T.

Why the need for Ethernet traffic generators?

Learn why BERTs are necessary but not enough when building and validating network gear.

Why the need for Ethernet traffic generators?

Learn why BERTs are necessary but not enough when building and validating network gear.

Noise in Traffic: Signal Emulation for Automotive Apps

Asymmetric, multi-gigabit signaling between automotive sensors, processors, and displays in the unique noise environments of both electric and internal combustion engine vehicles creates new problems for signal and power integrity engineers. This paper introduces the signal impairments required for receiver testing in emerging automotive standards like ASA, MIPI's A-PHY, automotive Ethernet, and more. Given that standards specify different sources of noise in different ways, this paper focuses on techniques for generating and calibrating each noise source while describing advanced de-embedding techniques and addressing test equipment limitations.

Validating 1.6T Ethernet and Emulating Real AI Workloads

Learn how AresONE 1600GE enables full-stack validation of next-generation AI infrastructure through high-density 1.6T Ethernet network testing and realistic AI workload emulation. Discover how integrated Layer 1–3 analysis, RoCEv2 traffic emulation, and KAI Data Center Builder software help accelerate network and AI data center validation, scalability, and deployment readiness.

Network Emulator II—Ethernet 10GE, 1GE, and 100MB Impairment

Network Emulator II is a precision test instrument that accurately emulates real network conditions that occur over live production 10GE, 1GE, and 100MbE LAN/WAN networks.

Validation at the Edge: Network Traffic

Explore four network traffic validation challenges — and solutions — as AI scales to tens of thousands of GPUs on 800G and 1.6T Ethernet across the complete engineering life cycle.

Traffic, Trade, and Timing

Load testing and stress testing you website. This guide will help you unearth the risks of sudden peak in website traffic and provide actionable tips on how to avoid them.

High-Volume Traffic Generator Products Catalog

Get the highest performance and most realistic workloads to validate across the stack from protocols to services, applications, and cybersecurity. Explore Keysight high-volume traffic generators.

AresONE 1600GE Layer 2 / 3 Traffic Generation

Learn how AresONE 1600GE and IxNetwork enable Layer 2 and Layer 3 traffic generation, protocol emulation, and performance validation for next-generation Ethernet devices, networks, and AI infrastructure.

Automotive Ethernet

Ethernet is fast emerging as that single shared medium as recent technology developments make Ethernet viable for use in cars. The Ethernet used in automobiles has different electrical requirements (EMI/RFI emissions and susceptibility) and is known as Automotive Ethernet. Automotive Ethernet is not only for the “luxury” car market trends indicate that a significant majority of car manufacturers are planning to move to Ethernet for all classes of cars. This Black Book includes functionality and impairment methodologies that can be used to verify device and system functionality and performance. The methodologies are universally applicable to any test equipment. Step-by-step implementation examples using Ixia's test platforms and applications are included to demonstrate the art of the possible.

Network Emulators Catalog

This catalog highlights Keysight’s Network Emulator 2 and Network Emulator 3 solutions, enabling precise replication of real‑world network impairments across 100 MbE to 100GE Ethernet. It provides performance details, use cases, architecture capabilities, and supporting tools for validating application robustness, interoperability, and network resilience before deployment.

Ethernet Synchronization

This document presents a thorough methodology for testing timing and synchronization over packet-based networks. Ethernet synchronization technologies, such as IEEE1588v2 Precision Time Protocol (PTP) and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) are discussed in depth. Key scenarios describe synchronization protocols and clock quality testing of timing enabled networks and devices.

From Standard Ethernet to Automotive Ethernet

As the demand for bandwidth, data rate, and data security goes up for in-vehicle.

Wavelength Minimization at Traffic Grooming

Learn how VPIlinkConfigurator’s API automates traffic grooming to consolidate client services into higher-rate optical channels, reducing wavelength usage and transceiver costs.

Carrier Ethernet

The tests in this book detail methodologies to verify the performance of Carrier Ethernet service enabling protocols. Subjects include Provider Bridges, Provider Backbone Bridges, Link OAM, Service OAM, E-LMI and Y.1564.

AresONE 1600GE

Deploying 800GE and 1.6T Ethernet solutions helps mitigate infrastructure bottlenecks. Validating high-speed AI fabric and realistically emulating complex AI workloads with advanced test tools is essential for ensuring reliable performance.

Fabric Emulator

The Fabric Emulator product brings the realism of customer networks into experimentation and test workflows, for developers of the next generation of system components.

Analyzing Advertising Traffic in the Network

This blog describes how to detect and analyze Ads traffic in the network.

AresONE Plus 1600GE

AresONE Plus 1600GE. High Density 1.6T AI Test system. AI data centers are pushing Ethernet infrastructure into uncharted territory. Massive GPU clusters, increasingly distributed AI workloads, and explosive east-west traffic are driving a new generation of ultra-high-speed, high-radix Ethernet switches — where enormous bandwidth must be delivered predictably across thousands.