RouterTester - At Your Service.

RouterTester - At Your Service.
The race to deploy new revenue-generating edge services is on!
RouterTester's comprehensive test plans and automated tools for
testing edge services are designed to quickly, yet thoroughly, evaluate
edge service implementations so that you can accelerate test cycles
and maximize the return on your test investment. From protocol
interoperability, conformance, and scalability testing to functional,
stability, and performance testing, RouterTester offers the most
comprehensive test coverage of edge services, including:
• MPLS-based services
• RFC 2547-bis VPNs
• L2oMPLS (Martini) VPNs
Accelerate test cycles
• PPPoX
and maximize ROI!
• L2TP VPNs
• IP Multicast
• VLANs
For all of these edge services, Agilent's Journal of Internet Test
Methodologies includes test plans that you can execute using
RouterTester's GUI or Tcl API, or by leveraging the automated scripts
already provided in RouterTester's QuickTest software.
RFC 2547-bis VPNs
RouterTester simulates realistic service provider and
customer networks around your device to thoroughly test
your BGP-MPLS VPN service implementations. RouterTester
ports can simulate other P, PE, and CE routers, and each port
can initiate hundreds of MP-iBGP sessions with your device
to quickly build thousands of VPN Routing and Forwarding
Tables (VRFs) and identify scalability limitations. Using
RouterTester, you can easily build complex VPN topologies
and generate wire-rate traffic between VPN sites to achieve
packet throughput, latency, and loss measurements.
MPLS-based Services
Greater network manageability gained through MPLS technology has
made it a popular building block for many edge services including RFC
2547-bis VPNs and L2oMPLS VPNs. RouterTester's protocol emulation
software and conformance test suites cover the breadth of routing
and signaling protocols used within MPLS networks so you can test to
industry standards and simulate realistic MPLS network topologies.
RouterTester's integrated protocol emulation and MPLS traffic
generation can be used to benchmark MPLS performance, including:
• LSP set up time/scalability
• Fast reroute/LSP switch over time
• MPLS make before break
• MPLS tunnel preemption
RouterTester played a key role in testing
RFC 2547-bis and L2oMPLS VPN services at
the MPLS Interoperability Test Event held by
the MPLS Forum at SUPERCOMM 2002.
L2oMPLS (Martini) VPNs
RouterTester simulates Layer 2 over MPLS (L2oMPLS) VPN
network elements and topologies around your device to test
the functionality, interoperability, and scalability of your
service implementation. RouterTester's Label Distribution
Protocol (LDP) emulation supports the extensions described
in draft-martini-12-circuit-trans-mpls-xx. Using RouterTester,
you can initiate hundreds of targeted LDP sessions with your
device and exchange Virtual Circuit (VC) information and
label values to verify L2oMPLS VPN functionality and
measure VC set up rates and scalability.
RouterTester - At Your Service.
PPPoX
RouterTester's Ethernet and ATM Routing Testing Cards offer
unparalleled PPP scalability and performance testing. Each Ethernet
and ATM port supports a full PPP stack, as per RFC 1661 and RFC
2516. You can set up and authenticate over 100 PPP sessions per
second and simulate thousands of PPPoE and PPPoA clients/hosts
per port. Using RouterTester, you can emulate up to 4,095 PPPoA,
and 16,000 PPPoE sessions per port to identify PPP set up/tear-down
rates and session scalability. Using multiple ports, you can generate
thousands of wire-rate traffic streams over PPP sessions to measure
packet-forwarding performance on a per-port and per-session basis.
L2TP VPNs
RouterTester's Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol (L2TP) software can
emulate hundreds of L2TP network elements, including network
servers, access concentrators, and remote clients, providing an easy
way to test the reliability, interoperability, and scalability of L2TPbased VPNs. Each RouterTester port supports a full L2TP stack, as
per RFC 2661, and can establish thousands of L2TP tunnels and PPP
sessions to measure tunnel set up time, rate, and scalability. Using
RouterTester, you can simulate realistic L2TP VPN conditions by
manipulating the number and rate of PPP sessions established over
each L2TP tunnel, and display statistics on a per-session and pertunnel basis.
VLANs
VLAN sessions can be used to support multiple customers
and services over a single physical interface. This feature
facilitates both the deployment and the testing of edge
services. For example, RouterTester can emulate thousands
of VLAN sessions over a single Ethernet interface, and then
emulate an e-BGP session over each VLAN to simulate
thousands of VPN sites (CE routers) within a BGP-MPLS VPN
test configuration. By generating/analyzing wire-rate traffic
across these sessions, RouterTester can measure how the
number of VPN sites affects QoS and service stability. The
ability to replace thousands of physical interfaces with a
single interface carrying thousands of VLAN/routing
sessions drastically reduces the cost and complexity of MPLS
VPN test configurations.
The Bigger Picture . . .
RouterTester's edge service test capabilities are part of its
growing portfolio of products and tools for testing
metro/edge devices. You can test all of these services over
RouterTester's broad range of Ethernet, ATM, and POS
interfaces, including new 10/100 Ethernet and 10GbE
LAN/WAN interfaces. RouterTester's Routing Test Cards
have the highest port density in the industry, and each port
supports thousands of protocol sessions so you can push
your edge device beyond its ultimate limits.
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IP Multicast
IP multicasting is a bandwidth-efficient application for sending
service traffic, such as video, to a targeted group of receivers. You
can couple RouterTester's IGMPv3 and PIM-SM protocol emulations
with multicast traffic generation to measure how changes to
multicast group membership, distribution trees, and traffic
configurations affect QoS. RouterTester supports multi-session
IGMPv3 and multi-session PIM-SM so you can emulate thousands of
IGMP or PIM sessions over a single port and measure scalability
limitations.
Copyright  Agilent Technologies, Inc. 2002
Specifications subject to change
July 24, 2002
Publication #5988-7461EN
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