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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, including 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
Supports VCL API which allows users to create custom test application scripts
Ease-of-use through simplified set-up in a wide-array of VeriWave Test Suites and WaveAutomation

Specifications

	WBE1104	WBE1101
Connector Type	RJ45	RJ45
Number of Ports per WaveBlade	4	1
Maximum Ports Per Chassis	36	9
Ethernet PHY Rates	10/100/1000 Mbps	10/100/1000 Mbps
Capture Buffer (per port)	256 MB	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