Network Emulator II™ - Fibre Channel

Fibre Channel Emulation

Problem: Knowing How Fibre Channel Networks Will Behave Under WorstCase Conditions

Today’s Fibre Channel networks are complex and require testing that reflects the conditions found in a real world network. The only way to bring this real world realism into the testing lab is to add network emulation to the test environment.

Solution: 16, 8, 4, and 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel Delay and Impairment Emulation

Ixia’s Network Emulator II is a precision test instrument for 16, 8, 4, and 2 Gigabit Fibre Channel testing. The device allows users to accurately emulate the delays and impairments that occur over live production Fibre Channel networks to validate and evaluate performance of new hardware or software products and technologies in a controlled lab environment.

Highlights

• Enables validation, performance, and interoperability testing of systems under real-world conditions, with reproducible results

• 16G Fibre Channel

• Provides realistic problem replication for troubleshooting

• Improves proof of concept (PoC) testing and customer demonstration

Key Features

• Industry’s first 16 Gigabit Fibre Channel emulator

• True 100% line rate support for 16G, 8G, 4G, and 2G Fibre Channel

• Single hardware platform for all Fibre Channel speeds 16/8/4/2G

• Field-programmable gate array (FPGA) hardware-based architecture provides maximum precision and accuracy

• Precisely emulates delays that occur over Fibre Channel networks

• 8 base-speed ports or 4 high-speed ports

• Dynamically increase impairments to test failure recovery mechanisms

• Transparent to any higher-layer protocols above Fibre Channel

• Test automation via RESTful Web application programming interface (API), allowing control by tool command language (TCL) and other languages

• Provides realistic problem replication for troubleshooting

Primary Use Cases

• Performance testing of critical applications over Fibre Channel

• Validate disaster recovery and storage extension solutions

• Interconnected SANs

• Evaluate data center migration plans safely

• Real-world interoperability and customer proof-of-concept (POC) testing

Applications

• Business continuity

• Disaster recovery

• Server consolidation and migration

• Storage extension

• Software application performance testing

• Interoperability testing

• Customer PoC

• SLA emulation

• Corporate LAN/WAN emulation