AresONE-400GE OSFP High-Density 8-Port Test System

Challenge: Capturing the Promises of Native 400GE Products

Using 100 gigabit Ethernet (GE) technologies to get 400GE speeds is a costly and complex method to get higher bandwidth in the datacenter. The native 400GE hardware now coming to market will bring better economies of scale, denser configuration, and more attractive price-per-port.

For large-scale data center networks, 400GE promises four times the bandwidth of 100GE in equivalent or less rack space. These critical factors save costs in operations. When it comes to testing new 400GE equipment, the same is true by using the Keysight AresONE-400GE test products.

Solution: Density with Performance — Not One or the Other

The Keysight AresONE 400GE product family is a compact high-port-density 400GE test solution for accelerating performance and benchmark testing of your high density 3.23-12.8Tbps networking devices. AresONE offers a factory and a field-upgrade that provides 2x200GE, 4x100GE, and 8x50GE speed test capabilities. This provides your development teams the speeds and test options they need to create the networking technologies of the future. AresONE OSFP fixed chassis are available in two models:

• Full-feature performance and scale 

• Reduced-feature performance and scale

Both models enable full line-rate traffic generation functionality for transmit, receive, and capture. This facilitates RFC benchmark testing, stress testing, and hardware/ASIC bring-up in high-port-count test beds. It can be used for optics and cable qualification, interoperability, and functional test. Plus, with IxNetwork, Keysight offers the broadest and highest performance Layer 2/3 routing protocol emulation coverage and performance available in the industry.

AresONE, T400GD-8P-OSFP and T400GD-4P-OSFP: Full performance, 400GE 8-port and 4-port models in a 2RU fixed chassis system designed for high density full-scale and performance enterprise and data center switch and router testing.

AresONE, T400GDR-8P-OSFP and T400GDR-4P-OSFP: Reduced performance 400GE 8-port and 4port models in a 2RU fixed chassis system designed for high-density hardware, ASIC, cable/optics qualification, RFC benchmark, and interoperability testing for high-port-count testing. The OSFP-R400GE scales down the L2/3 feature set and L2/3 networking protocol scaling, without compromising routing protocol coverage, while increasing affordability.

Pay as You Grow — Full and Reduced, 4-Port and 8-Port Variants, All Field Upgradeable

The ability to upgrade AresONE fixed chassis to have AresONE grow with your needs is un-paralleled. Any AresONE 8-port or 4-port reduced model can be upgraded in the field to a full performance, highercapacity, L2/3 feature set and L2/3 networking protocol scaling performance model. Any 4-port model can be upgraded to an 8-port model. Mix and match whatever upgrade or upgrades that you require. No longer are you stuck with a dedicated piece of hardware with no hope of extending its capabilities. Let AresONE assist you in the critical ROI analysis. AresONE upgrades extend the reuse of the fixed chassis system and improves your ROI. This is a unique capability that AresONE QSFP-DD and OSFP models offer.