Ethernet Traffic Emulators Catalog
Catalogs
This Catalog provides a comprehensive overview of Keysight’s Layer 2 through Layer 7 traffic‑generation and protocol‑emulation portfolio designed to validate networking technologies from pre‑silicon development through hyperscale data‑center deployment. It showcases software‑defined traffic emulators, application‑performance tools, and high‑density hardware accelerators that generate realistic traffic at bandwidths up to 1.6T, enabling thorough validation of today’s increasingly complex and AI‑driven networks.
The catalog begins with an overview of Keysight’s end‑to‑end Ethernet traffic‑emulation offerings for ASIC developers, switch vendors, hyperscale cloud operators, and AI‑infrastructure teams. These solutions emulate real application flows, network congestion, protocol behavior, and hyperscale performance requirements across physical, virtual, and cloud environments. As AI workloads reshape switching architectures and interconnect demands, Ethernet traffic emulation is critical for validating distributed, high‑bandwidth designs at scale.
IxNetwork emulates millions of devices and routes and provides full‑rate traffic generation for physical, virtual, and AI‑native data‑center networks. It supports IPv4/IPv6 routing, switching, MPLS/VPN, RoCEv2, SDN, broadband authentication, MACsec, and lossless AI workloads. Automation is enabled through Python and REST APIs.
Key capabilities:
- Hyperscale traffic emulation with millions of flows
- Protocol‑accurate L2–3 behavior and encryption validation
- Zero‑loss RDMA and RoCEv2 congestion‑control testing
- CI/CD‑ready automation APIs
IxANVL performs automated, standards‑based protocol and interoperability testing across a wide range of L2–L3 protocols, supporting large multinode network emulation without the need for custom hardware. Ideal for regression, new stack validation, and conformance across IPv4, IPv6, MPLS, VPN, SDN, and automotive Ethernet.
IxVerify integrates with simulation and hardware‑emulation platforms to verify Ethernet ASICs before silicon availability. It validates forwarding, buffering logic, congestion handling, control‑plane accuracy, and protocol compliance using realistic traffic in RTL and gate‑level environments.
Keysight’s AI Data Center Builder models AI cluster topologies, simulates AI training workloads, measures system‑level congestion, and benchmarks throughput across GPU nodes. It supports RDMA, RoCEv2, and collective operations such as AllReduce, AllGather, and PXN.
IxLoad generates stateful, full‑stack traffic to test firewalls, VPNs, ADCs, and cloud‑native infrastructure. It emulates millions of simultaneous users, encrypted sessions, and multiservice mixes including voice, video, and messaging. Virtual and hardware‑accelerated versions share a unified architecture to support CI/CD usage.
IxChariot provides lightweight, distributed application‑emulation for pre‑production and production networks. It measures jitter, MOS, latency, throughput, and packet loss for VoIP, video, and data flows across wired, wireless, and cloud environments using endpoint agents.
Fabric Emulator — Full‑Topology Data Center Simulation
This platform mimics entire Clos networks and data‑center topologies on a single appliance, allowing validation of NICs, DPUs, switches, and routing behaviors. It supports congestion, packet drops, background load, QoS tuning, ECN, and chaos‑scenario experimentation.
Elastic Network Generator — CI/CD‑Ready Network Simulation
ENG supports dynamic traffic generation, topology variation, and routing‑path emulation through the industry‑standard Open Traffic Generator API. It integrates with hardware accelerators and IxNetwork for full‑stack validation.
The catalog features multiple hardware platforms for Layer 1–7 validation across speeds from 100 MbE to 1.6T, supporting AI clusters, data‑center networks, and next‑generation Ethernet designs.
AresONE — High‑Density 100GE to 800GE Validation
AresONE systems deliver up to 800GE line‑rate test capability with protocol‑accurate traffic generation, FEC validation, SmartNIC emulation, and scalable multi‑port configurations (2–16 ports).
Interconnect & Network Performance Test (800GE / 1600GE)
These testers validate copper and optical interconnects with FEC/BER analysis, AI training traffic, congestion modeling, and latency characterization at 800GE and 1.6T.
Novus ONE PLUS — All‑in‑One L2–L7 Appliance
A compact chassis supporting 4–16 ports of traffic generation for switching, routing, and security‑appliance validation. Ideal for turnkey labs and QA environments with preconfigured port layouts.
Ultra‑High Density Test Systems
Offer up to 32×100GE or 16×400GE ports for space‑efficient validation of open networking and cloud environments, with nanosecond‑accurate timing.
Multirate Test Systems — 50GE to 800GE FEC & BER Platforms
These systems integrate PAM4 BER analysis, real‑time RS‑544 FEC metrics, retimer debug, and Layer 1–2 traffic generation in multi‑speed Ethernet environments.
Metronome Timing System — Multi‑Chassis Synchronization
Provides nanosecond‑accurate time/phase alignment across up to 48 chassis, enabling synchronized L1–L7 test events in large‑scale Ethernet, TSN, and AI data‑center environments.
XGS Modular Chassis
A scalable 12‑slot chassis designed for multi‑user test labs, supporting Novus and CloudStorm modules and compatible with IxLoad and IxNetwork software.
The catalog concludes with an overview of KeysightCare services, which enhance uptime, ensure measurement accuracy, accelerate learning curves, and provide prioritized support and calibration options. High‑performance hardware includes one year of KeysightCare Assured.