WaveBlade Ethernet
The VeriWave Ethernet Server WaveBlade provides a complete Layer 2-7 test product to evaluate the functionality and performance of Ethernet based networking products. Designed for testing network infrastructure devices such as Access Points, Broadband Home Gateways, Controllers, Switches, and Routers the Ethernet WaveBlade integrates traffic generation and analysis capabilities on a single platform.
Each Ethernet WaveBlade port generates fully-interleaved, multi-protocol IP traffic from hundreds of independent Ethernet clients or servers at wire-speed. It is a line-card that fits into VeriWave’s WT90 and WT20 chassis and interworks seamlessly with the WaveBlade WiFi 802.11n and WaveBlade WiFi 802.11a/b/g line-cards. It provides the essential tools necessary to complete any type of testing ranging from functional testing to large scale testing. While its inter-working with the WiFi WaveBlades offers unique WLAN infrastructure testing capabilities, it can also be used for testing of Ethernet only networks and network devices.
Benefits
- Up to 500 fully independent Ethernet clients/subscribers or servers per port enable precise measurement of critical performance metrics at data rates reaching up to 1 Gbps
- Capable of generating wire-speed stateful TCP traffic and other traffic including raw Ethernet frames, UDP, RTP etc.
- Complete control over MAC and IP address scheme; including automatic addressing and incremental addressing per user-defined step sizes
- Wire-speed interleaved flow generation with unique ID, rate, timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and flow group identifiers
- Real-time statistics to track up to 131,072 traffic flows and 16 user customizable latency histogram buckets
- Industry-best simultaneous bi-directional (TX/RX) wire-speed packet capture support of up to 256MB on each port
- Ease-of-use through simplified set-up in a wide-array of VeriWave Test Suites and WaveAutomation
Specifications
| WBE1104 | WBE1101 | |
| Connector type | RJ45 | |
| Number of ports per WaveBlade | 4 | 1 |
| Maximum ports per chassis | 36 | 9 |
| Ethernet PHY rates | 10/100/1000 Mbps | |
| Capture buffer (per port) | 256 MB | |
| Number of clients / subscribers (per WaveBlade) | 2,000 | 500 |
| Number of interleaved flows (per WaveBlade) | 4,000 | 1,000 |
| Transmit capability | Wire-speed hardware frame generation with timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and flow group Identifiers | |
| Receive capability | Wire-speed frame filtering, data integrity, and sequence checking, capture, real-time latency measurement on each flow | |
| User defined field modifier (per flow) | Increment or decrement by user-defined step; up to 256 bytes from start of frame | |
| Frame length control | Fixed, increment by user-defined step or automatic | |
| Statistics and rate counters | Link State, Line Speed, Frames Sent, Signature Valid Frames Received, Signature Error Frames Received, Bytes Sent/Received, Fragments Received, Undersize, Oversize, VLAN Tagged Frames, Per User Priority QoS counters, FCS errors, Bad Sequence Errors, Bad Payload Checksum, ARP, DHCP and Ping requests and replies, IP/ICMP/UDP/TCP checksum errors, IP Multicast packets, Sent/Received IP Packets | |
| Flow analysis | Real-time statistics to track up to 131,072 flows | |
| Time-stamp accuracy | 50 ns resolution | |
| IPv4, UDP, TCP | Hardware checksum generation | |
Product Ordering Information
| VeriWave 4-port Ethernet Blade | WBE1104 |
| VeriWave 1-port Ethernet Blade | WBE1101 |
| VeriWave Chassis | WaveTest 90 or WaveTest 20 |
