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IxNetwork Industrial, Automotive, and Carrier Ethernet Test Solution

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Problem: Uncertainty About How Ethernet Can Replace Legacy Connectivity

The popularity of Ethernet in IT has propelled new adoption in other industries such as Ethernet virtual connections (EVCs) for metro Ethernet access, professional Audio-Video installations, automotive electronic control unit (ECU) connectivity, industrial automation and control, and time/clock distribution. But the successful replacement of these existing purpose-built Ethernet networks requires significant enhancements that include new signaling protocols and traffic control mechanisms. How can you ensure the enhanced Ethernet achieves the same level of performance and quality of the legacy connectivity for a converged IT/OT network?

 

Solution: Leading Ethernet Test System Extended for Industrial Ethernet

Keysight’s IxNetwork is the leader in Ethernet test solutions for network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) and service providers. Leveraging our rich Ethernet expertise, the IxNetwork Industrial, Automotive, and Carrier Ethernet test solution provides unparalleled test coverage. Each IxNetwork test port can emulate hundreds of Ethernet endpoints with realistic behavior. Various test scenarios can be executed with our graphical user interface (GUI) or application programming interface (API) scripting to characterize performance bottlenecks and resiliency.

 

With this test solution, you can validate that your Ethernet implementation:

• Provides the carrier-grade scale and performance needed for metro EVC access

• Supplies the low latency/jitter and dedicated bandwidth needed for professional audio/video

• Provides the scheduling and reliability for mission-critical applications in industrial networks

• Achieves the scale and precision needed for timing and clock synchronization between networking devices

 

Highlights

• Validate industrial time-sensitive networking (TSN) scheduled traffic (IEEE 802.1Qbv) on multiple redundant time synchronization domains (IEEE 802.1AS-2020)

• Verify Frame Preemption (IEEE 802.1Qbu) with accurate emulation of fragments, preemptable and express frames

• Verify TSN standards for IEEE 802.1CB, IEEE 802.1Qci, and IEEE802.1Qcc

• Ensure professional quality AV that relies on stringent latency/jitter and resource reservation by emulating large volume of audio-video bridging (AVB) Talker-Listener instances and traffic

• Ensure high performing and scaling Carrier Ethernet services (E-Line, E-LAN, E-Tree) by emulating maintenance intermediate points (MIP) and maintenance end points (MEP)

• Verify functionality, quality, and scaling of PTP implementations to IEEE 1588v2 and G8265.1/G8275.1 telecom profiles and SMPTE ST-2059-2 Broadcast Media profiles by emulating Leader and Follower clocks

• Validate conformance with respect to Avnu Alliance Automotive Profile, TSN Conformance Test package

• Validate conformance with Avnu industrial test plan for IEEE 802.1Qbv

• Validate conformance with Avnu base TSN test plan for IEEE 802.1AS-2020 and IEEE 802.1Qbv

 

Key Features

• TSN emulation — Scheduled traffic (IEEE 802.1Qbv) based on gPTP time (IEEE 802.1AS-2020), Frame Preemption (IEEE 802.1Qbu / IEEE 802.13br), Frame Replication (IEEE 802.1CB), Filtering & Policing (IEEE 802.1Qci)

• Configuration of TSN devices through Netconf/Yang (IEEE 802.1Qcc)

• AVB emulation — Stream reservation protocol IEEE 802.1Q Clause 35, forwarding and queueing of time-sensitive applications IEEE 802.1Qav, AV stream transport IEEE 1722 

• Conformance test packages for new TSN standards and Avnu automotive profile and Avnu industrial test plan 

• Automatic generation of fragments through TSN wizard from the preemptable stream configuration in a frame preemption (IEEE 8021.Qbu) scenario

• Automatic generation of MACsec encrypted express streams and preempted fragments through TSN wizard in a frame preemption (IEEE 802.1Qbu) scenario

• IEEE 1588v2 precision time protocol (PTP) emulation 

• Support for telecom PTP profiles ITU-T G.8265.1/G.8275.1/G.8275.2

• Support for SMPTE ST-2059-2 PTP profile for Professional Broadcast Application 

• Ethernet service OAM emulation, IEEE 802.1ag and ITU-T Y.1731

• Synchronous Ethernet (ESMC) emulation

• Provider backbone bridges with traffic engineering (PBB-TE) emulation

• Ethernet link OAM emulation, defined in IEEE 802.3ah Clause 57

• Ethernet local management interface (ELMI), MEF 16

 

 

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