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DATA QUALITY ANALYZER
MD1230A
Complete Performance Testing and Monitoring with One Unit
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IP Networks are spreading rapidly throughout society in line with the
expansion of networks carrying voice, video, and mission-critical
data. And now maintenance of network quality has become an im-
portant theme.
Development of network equipment and systems requires the mea-
surement of network performance and QoS evaluations. In addition,
network operations and maintenance require monitoring of in-ser-
vice traffic, latency, and frame arrival time variation (frame jitter) as
well as prompt troubleshooting.
The MD1230A integrates both performance testing and network
monitoring into one instrument.
Applications
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R&D
RFC2544 test
The six standard RFC1242 and RFC2544 tests: Throughput,
Latency, Frame Loss Rate, Back-to-Back-Frame, System Recovery,
and Reset, can be performed automatically with the results displayed
graphically or in table form. The test efficiency has been improved
through automation.
BGP4 link flap/route flap test
The MD1230A can emulate the BGP4 (Border Gateway Protocol ver-
sion 4) speaker for a maximum of 8 devices. It can also perform link
flap tests for neighboring routers and route flap tests for up to 800
routes. (However, it cannot use routes advertised by the DUT in the
route flap test.)
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Manufacturing
Automated testing using GPIB commands (MD1230A Option 02)
Preset test items for production lines of network devices, etc., can be
executed automatically and the measurement results saved. The
MD1230A supports GPIB commands and almost all its functions can
be executed via GPIB. In addition, several MD1230As can be con-
trolled from one controller. Since the automated control programs
use well-known GPIB commands, users' development costs of appli-
cation software can be saved.
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Maintenance
VPN QoS traffic monitoring
Since traffic can be measured according to 8 priority levels based on
the VLAN tag user priority field specified by IEEE802.1D and the
least 3 bits of the DSCP field specified by RFC2474, it is also possi-
ble to measure QoS traffic for other packets not generated by the
MD1230A.
If user-defined filters are used, VoIP traffic (specified UDP port num-
ber) to which specific MPLS labels are appended can be measured
in real time.
Protocol analysis
Layer 2 to Layer 4 protocol decode can be performed on captured
packets. Any problems with frame transportation are basically cov-
ered by the MD1230A protocol decode function of Layer 2 to Layer
4.
Remote latency (MD1230A Option 05)
The MD1230A has an optional GPS function and it can perform time
synchronization with remote MD1230A units to measure frame la-
tency of a long distance. Moreover, the capture function can be trig-
gered when the measured latency exceeds the user setting. At pre-
sent, there are services for guaranteeing VPN latency but if these
services develop a fault, the MD1230A is very helpful.
Functions
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Physical interface for 10 Mbit/s to 10 Gbit/s
The MD1230A has the interface modules shown in the table below,
and other interface modules will be added to the list. The Gigabit
Ethernet Module has a Giga-Bit Interface Converter (GBIC) that can
be changed to support 1000BASE-SX/LX/LH/ZX ports.
10/100M Ethernet Module 8 ports
Gigabit Ethernet Module 2 ports
2.5G (1.31) Module 1 port
2.5G (1.55) Module 1 port
10G (1.31) Module 1 port
10G (1.55) Module 1 port
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