Novus ONE PLUS L2-7 Fixed Chassis

Multi-Rate Ethernet Testing—Anywhere, Anytime

Keysight's Novus ONE PLUS is the industry’s highest-density portable fixed chassis, offering complete Layer 2-7 network and application testing in a compact form-factor.

With Novus ONE PLUS’s unique combination of portability and performance—up to 16 Dual-PHY ports per fixed chassis, you can create cost-effective Ethernet test environments for 3-Speed 10GE/1GE/100M or 5-Speed 10GE/5GE/2.5GE/1GE/100M over copper and fiber media.

The Novus ONE PLUS also supports 100Base-T1 and 1000Base-T1 automotive interfaces, enabling validation of electronic control units (ECU) and in-vehicular network.

A platform capable of time sensitive networking (TSN), Novus ONE PLUS provides a powerful time synchronization underlay that includes the ability to synchronize with an external clock reference or GPS signal powered by Keysight’s Metronome Timing System.

Novus ONE PLUS supports up to line-rate L2/3 traffic generation and analysis, high-performance routing/bridging protocol emulation, and true L4-7 application traffic generation and subscriber emulation—all with one fixed chassis!

Highlights

• Meet high-density test requirements with full-featured Dual-PHY (RJ45 and SFP+) 3-speed or 5-speed fixed chassis

• Test using multiple chassis with Keysight STAR and Metronome Synchronization support

• Test networks and devices cost-effectively with the industry’s highest-density portable appliance

• Optimize lab space and power use with compact form factor and reduced power requirements

• Enable broad test functions across L2-7 with unified architecture that supports Keysight’s IxNetwork, IxExplorer, and IxLoad applications

• Validate enterprise and service provider environments with appliance that is purpose-built to test high-performance, low-latency devices

• Validate automotive and industrial IoT (IIoT) networks

• Test with a platform that is TSN-capable with a time synchronization underlay

Portability and performance—small footprint and power

Equipped with powerful multi-core, multi-threaded network processors, Novus ONE PLUS uses Keysight’s next-generation architecture designed to meet high-throughput testing needs. Due to its compact formfactor and reduced power requirements, the Novus ONE PLUS is a great option for customers who need high-performance testing yet are constrained by space and power availability in their lab.

A single Novus ONE PLUS allows emulation of up to 160Gbps of stateless application traffic and 20Gbps of stateful application traffic. The system uses inline field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) for enhanced accuracy pertaining to latency measurements, with a resolution of up to 2.5ns to deliver linerate performance, including small 64-byte packets.

Key features

• Full line-rate traffic generation to evaluate ASIC designs, FPGAs, and hardware switch fabrics

• High scale and performance for emulating L2/3 protocols to validate performance and scalability of routing/switching and data center test cases by using Keysight’s IxNetwork application

• Support for testing SFP+ and 10GBase-T RJ-45 copper ports at different speeds simultaneously 

• Industry-standard RFC tests and protocol emulation on 10G, 5G, 2.5G, 1G, and/or 100M ports in a single test—to benchmark data-plane and performance and scale of network equipment

• 3-Speed 10G, 1G, and 100M or 5-Speed 10G, 5G, 2.5G, 1G, and 100M line-rate packet capture and decode tools to detect and debug data transmission errors

• Support for IxExplorer, IxNetwork, and IxLoad applications and related Tcl and automation APIs

• Flexible 4:1 CPU and memory aggregation, for high-scale protocol emulation and performance

• Real-time latency with latency resolution of up to 2.5ns • Extensive port and traffic flow statistics 

• Keysight synchronization support: STAR (secondary only) and Metronome synchronization

• Support for preamble customization is now available on IxNetwork for the Novus 1GE/10GE 5Speed and 3-Speed load modules. Customization is available for both the preamble length and the preamble data of frames.