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9.3.1 Saving Results

9.3.2 Recalling and Viewing Results

9.3.3 File Transfer

9.3.3.1 USB File Transfer

9.3.3.2 FTP File Transfer

9.4 ReVeal Software

9.4.4.1 Remote Control

10.0 Warranty and Software
11.0 Product Specifications
12.0 Certification and Declarations
13.0 About VeEX

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1.0 Product Introduction

VeEX™ MX100 and MX120 Ethernet Expert test sets are next generation of Metro and Carrier Ethernet field test equipment for

Ethernet Networks. The units are lightweight, rugged and weather resistant, and feature Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet test

ports complete with advanced Triple Play verification capabilities. The MX100 and MX120 test sets can be used in conjunction with

the MPX100 loopback device offering simplified network testing and monitoring.

MX100/120 e-Manual D07-00-004 Rev A04

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Summary of Contents for MX100 Series

Page 1: ...d into a foreign language or be transmitted electronically without prior agreement and written consent of VeEX Incorporated as governed by International copyright laws Information contained in this ma...

Page 2: ...and Panels 4 4 1 Test Ports 4 4 2 Utility Ports 4 5 LEDs 5 0 Home Screen and Menu 5 1 Screen Layout 5 2 Screen Icons 5 3 Actions Menu 6 0 Setup 6 1 Port Setup 6 2 Port Status 6 3 Laser Activation 6 4...

Page 3: ...7 2 RFC2544 Conformance Testing 7 2 1 Setup 7 2 1 1 Header Settings 7 2 1 2 Frame Settings 7 2 1 3 Threshold Settings 7 2 1 4 Throughput Latency Frame Loss and Burst Settings 7 2 1 5 Control Settings...

Page 4: ...bal Results multiple streams 7 3 2 3 Results individual streams 7 3 2 4 Saving Throughput Results 7 4 Monitor Pass Through Mode 7 4 1 Setup 7 4 2 Results 7 4 2 1 Errors 7 4 2 2 Alarms 7 4 2 3 Events a...

Page 5: ...us 8 4 3 Ping Test 8 5 VoIP Testing 8 5 1 VoIP Check 8 5 2 VoIP Expert 8 5 3 VoIP Call Expert 8 6 IPTV Testing 8 6 1 Setup 8 6 2 Results 9 0 Utilities 9 1 Help 9 2 Settings 9 2 1 About 9 2 2 Screen 9...

Page 6: ...ck to top 1 0 Product Introduction VeEX MX100 and MX120 Ethernet Expert test sets are next generation of Metro and Carrier Ethernet field test equipment for Ethernet Networks The units are lightweight...

Page 7: ...yer 2 3 Ethernet traffic generation with user selectable test pattern for Bit Error Rate analysis RFC 2544 Throughput Back to Back Frame Loss and Latency conformance tests in accordance with RFC 2544...

Page 8: ...rame Loss and Latency conformance tests in accordance with RFC 2544 specifications Throughput Ethernet traffic generation and analysis with multiple streams to verify network throughput and jitter Loo...

Page 9: ...the use of this product call or e mail our customer care department for customer support Before contacting our customer care department you must have your product serial number and software version r...

Page 10: ...quence to the user interface It is used in non touch screen operation mode to escape menus and functions Go back to top 4 2 Touch Screen Display The LCD supports touch screen operation To operate the...

Page 11: ...0 100 1000Base T Port RJ45 connector IEEE 802 3 compliant A green LED on the RJ45 connector flashes when there is activity on the network The green LED is On when there is a valid Ethernet link with t...

Page 12: ...e The configuration parameters header bandwidth etc for each application on each of the ports are completely independent from one another The possible port application configurations include Port 1 RF...

Page 13: ...sting Transfer measurement results and test profiles between the instrument and a computer using ReVeal MX software Upload download channel tables between the instrument and a computer using ReVeal MX...

Page 14: ...signal Pattern LED indicates test pattern synchronization in BERT RFC and Throughput modes Alarm Error LED indicates the presence of alarms or errors MX100 LED panel MX120 LED panel Note Each LED is...

Page 15: ...es Netwiz Bottom Applications common to all VPAL100 test sets Auto Test Settings Files Help Backlight Tools IP connection status Advanced IP features Net Wiz WiFi Wiz VoIP and IPTV applications MX100...

Page 16: ...bar Loopback icon Indicates unit is in Loopback mode MX100 and MX120 Screen Icons Go back to top 5 3 Actions Menu Tapping the Actions icon displays the following menu selections Close closes the Acti...

Page 17: ...ce s that will be used to carry out tests The available selections will differ from MX100 to MX120 as follows Mode Selection Ethernet or fibre channel MX120 only Operation Modes Single or Dual Port MX...

Page 18: ...per P1 Fiber Pass Through Monitor Copper 10 100 1000 Base T Pass Through Monitor Fiber 1000 Base X MX120 Port Selection MX120 Port Settings Note When Dual port mode is selected MX120 only a P1 and P2...

Page 19: ...ing mode and interfaces are selected the user can independently configure the auto negotiation speed duplex and flow control settings for each port where applicable When flow control is enabled the te...

Page 20: ...turned on off from any of the following application menus BERT RFC 2544 Throughput Loopback and IP MX100 120 Laser Operation Off MX100 120 Laser Operation On Go back to top 6 4 Profiles Profiles Tab P...

Page 21: ...ed mode User defines the duration of the test after the test is started the test will run for the configured duration and stop automatically Auto mode User configures the start and end time of the tes...

Page 22: ...start the transmitter manually OAM Enable On Off When OAM is enabled the MX300 supports the IEEE 802 3ah EFM standard for discovery and loopback control of OAM enabled devices MX100 120 Measurement se...

Page 23: ...oopback mode where any one port can be configured in loopback mode Loopback must be configured first however but the second port can run any selected application MX120 Measurement setup Port 1 MX120 M...

Page 24: ...apsulated into an Ethernet frame to verify bit per bit performance of the circuit under test Layer 1 Unframed mode fiber ports only or Framed mode Unframed mode Test traffic consists of a bit stream o...

Page 25: ...RT Setup Header Summary Layer 3 Layer 4 Framed BERT same as Layer 1 2 3 Framed MAC Address A default or user configured Media Access Control MAC address is added to the frame This MAC address is used...

Page 26: ...n Layer 3 is selected 802 3 LLC IEEE 802 3 frame with LLC header 802 3 SNAP IEEE 802 3 frame with SNAP header Ethernet II DIX named after DEC Intel and Xerox this is the most common frame type today M...

Page 27: ...ertype 0800 IP Internet Protocol Version 4 IPv4 0600 Xerox 0801 X 75 X 75 Internet 0805 X 25 X 25 Level 3 0806 ARP Address Resolution Protocol ARP 8035 RARP Reverse Address Resolution Protocol RARP 81...

Page 28: ...fferent classes of traffic voice video data etc Type The following selections are possible 8100 IEEE 802 1Q tagged frame 88a8 IEEE 802 1ad Provider Bridging IEEE 802 1Q VLAN Tag in an Ethernet Frame B...

Page 29: ...OS Precedence The first three bits of the IP TOS field can be edited 000 Best Effort 001 Bulk Data 010 Transactional 011 Call Signaling 100 Streaming Video 101 Voice 110 Routing 111 Reserve DSCP Diffe...

Page 30: ...t Jitter Test Pattern is a Jitter Tolerance Pattern that stresses a receiver by exposing it to extreme phase jumps thereby stressing the clock data recovery CDR circuitry The pattern alternates betwee...

Page 31: ...d for error and jitter measurements on circuits operating at bit rates of 64 kbit s and N 64 kbit s Fixed All 0s or All 1s User Defined pattern Length depends on size of frame Inversion Normal or inve...

Page 32: ...ng to user selectable step time number of steps and maximum bandwidth Frame Size Enter the frame size when a Layer 2 or Layer 3 BERT is selected Frame size configuration is not available for Layer 1 B...

Page 33: ...layer 3 only Injection Flow Determines how the selected errors will be injected Select a single error injection a specific count or error rate Rate and Count Configures the error rate and error count...

Page 34: ...looped back with the MAC source and destination addresses swapped Layer 3 All incoming unicast traffic is looped back with MAC and IP source and destination addresses swapped Mode Manual or Asymmetri...

Page 35: ...end a loop up command No manual configuration of the IP address is needed since these are populated automatically Go back to top Asymmetric Mode No configuration is necessary BERT Control Setup Asymme...

Page 36: ...ine rate Framed rate Data rate Utilization Number of bytes Optical power optical level measured by the SFP or XFP transceiver Go back to top 7 1 2 2 Errors Errors tab The following Errors Current and...

Page 37: ...p and test application are displayed Go back to top 7 1 2 4 Alarms Alarms tab The following Alarms Current and Total are displayed LOS Loss of Signal LOS Sync Pattern Loss Indicates errors related to...

Page 38: ...ion Pause frames Frames tab The following Frame distribution statistics are displayed in count and percentage Received RX frames Total frames Test frames VLAN tagged frames VLAN stacked frames MPLS la...

Page 39: ...to 8808h are counted as pause frames Layer 3 Unicast frames number of Unicast frames received without FCS errors Layer 3 Broadcast frames number of Broadcast frames received without FCS errors Broadca...

Page 40: ...r of received frames including bad frames Broadcast frames and Multicast frames Data rate in Mbps received data rate expressed in Mbps BERT Results Rates Graph BERT Results Rates Details Go back to to...

Page 41: ...tests that describe the performance characteristics of a network interconnecting device RFC 2544 recommendations are well accepted in the test and measurement industry for network performance testing...

Page 42: ...MAC IP Tap the MAC and IP blocks on the Frame image to access the setup menus Set the Source and Destination MAC address for Layer 2 Set the Source and Destination MAC and IP addresses for Layer 3 VLA...

Page 43: ...ag Type Ethernet Type can be configured Please refer to the BERT application for more details MPLS Tab MPLS label CoS priority settings TTL and S bit fields are configured for available MPLS tags Plea...

Page 44: ...the throughput and latency tests When enabled threshold settings can be configured for all of the test frames selected in the frame settings tab A Pass Fail criteria will be applied when the threshol...

Page 45: ...the negotiated line rate The default value is 100 This is the maximum transmit rate to perform the throughput test for each test frame size The user may configure this rate as a of the total line rat...

Page 46: ...e user configures a custom rate in or Mbps Rate Only available if Custom Rate is selected Enter up to 100 of the negotiated line rate or enter the rate in Mbps Duration 5 to 999 seconds The default va...

Page 47: ...loss test will be reduced by in the event of any frame loss For example if the Max Rate is 100Mbps or 100 and frames are lost at this rate then the transmit rate will be reduced to 90Mbps or 90 The f...

Page 48: ...on the Control Mode selected e g Asymmetric mode test settings for upstream and downstream are also displayed Go back to top 7 2 1 5 Control Settings Overview Asymmetrical links like ADSL and VDSL2 p...

Page 49: ...r automatically Manual selection user must input the destination IP address of the far end device Automatic selection No configuration is necessary user only has to select the discovered far end devic...

Page 50: ...are completed the RFC 2544 test suite will stop automatically Once all tests have been completed and there is no need to test again go back to the Control tab and press the Loop Down button This will...

Page 51: ...ng formats Graphical Summary table Test log table RFC Results Throughput Summary RFC Results Throughput Graph RFC Results Throughput Test Log Go back to top 7 2 2 3 Latency Latency results are display...

Page 52: ...Results Latency Test Log Go back to top 7 2 2 4 Frame Loss Frame loss results are displayed in the following formats Summary table Test log table Graphical RFC Results Frame Loss Summary RFC Results F...

Page 53: ...Test Log Go back to top 7 2 2 6 Saving RFC 2544 Results Once the test has been stopped the results can be saved by pressing the save key on the keypad The results will be saved and named automaticall...

Page 54: ...very useful in verifying the transport of traffic with different prioritization settings across a network link The test helps verify that the network can handle high priority traffic and low priority...

Page 55: ...per stream configurations Header Traffic and Error Injection a stream number will be displayed The user must select each stream number separately to configure the respective parameters Select the str...

Page 56: ...AP header fields 802 3 SNAP frame VLAN Tab In the VLAN tab the the VLAN ID priority and Tag Type or Ethernet Type can be configured for all available VLANs MPLS Tab In the MPLS tab the MPLS label CoS...

Page 57: ...the MAC IP destination addresses must be the same on all of the streams If any of the traffic streams are going to more than one far end unit please ensure that the correct MAC IP destination address...

Page 58: ...Throughput Traffic Setup Stream 1 Throughput Traffic Setup Stream 2 Go back to top 7 3 1 5 Error Injection Settings Individual Stream Configuration Error injection can be performed during test The typ...

Page 59: ...manually looped back then it must first receive a loop up command from the control unit before the Throughput test can be started To loop up the far end unit with the manual mode loop up down command...

Page 60: ...tal number of bad frames Optical power measurement if applicable The Global Stream Summary screen displays Stream number Total received bandwidth per stream Errors alarms associated with the stream Qu...

Page 61: ...Throughput Results Global Errors Throughput Results Global Alarms Go back to top The Global Traffic screen displays Frame Type of all streams Traffic Type s of all streams Frame size of all streams T...

Page 62: ...h stream Delay Delay associated with each stream Rates Rates information associated with each stream Throughput Results Summary Stream 1 Throughput Results Summary Stream 2 Go back to top The Per Stre...

Page 63: ...each stream Throughput Results Events per Stream Throughput Results Delay per Stream Go back to top The Per Stream Traffic screen displays the frame type summary graphical frame type tabular and fram...

Page 64: ...ta rate pertaining to each stream Tapping the zoom icon displays the rate details applicable to that stream Throughput Results Rates Stream 1 Throughput Results Rates Stream 2 Rate Details Stream 1 Ra...

Page 65: ...he user may view or rename the results file by going to the Explorer tab located in the Files menu Throughput Results Storage Warning Stored Throughput Results File Explorer Go back to top 7 4 Monitor...

Page 66: ...ing between the two 1000Base X ports or the two 10 100 1000 Base T ports MX120 Bidirectional Monitoring Test Application Go back to top 7 4 1 Setup The pass through monitor setup and operation is stra...

Page 67: ...S IP Checksum Layer 3 only Jabber frames number of received frames larger than 1518 bytes containing an invalid FCS Runt frames number of received frames smaller than 64 bytes containing an invalid FC...

Page 68: ...is displayed for each of the following parameters Utilization CRC Errors count Service Disruption in ms Optical Power level in dBm 1000Base X fibre connections only Monitor mode Events Monitor mode S...

Page 69: ...or mode Traffic Type Go back to top Frames The following Frame distribution statistics are displayed in count and percentage Received RX frames Total frames Test frames VLAN tagged frames VLAN stacked...

Page 70: ...n Frames per second FPS Current number of received frames including bad frames Broadcast frames and Multicast frames Minimum Maximum Average Data rate in Mbps received data rate expressed in Mbps Curr...

Page 71: ...top 7 4 2 6 Port Selection To view Port 1 and Port 2 results select P1 and P2 respectively to switch between ports Port Selection Monitor Mode Go back to top MX100 120 e Manual D07 00 004 Rev A04 Page...

Page 72: ...addresses for Layer 2 or MAC and IP destination and source addresses for Layer 3 All incoming frames with CRC errors will be dropped similar to what an Ethernet switch does All broadcast and multicas...

Page 73: ...DNS IP if the DNS server option is turned on The user can also turn the DNS server option On of Off A DNS IP address is required when using URL format as a destination address The user needs to establ...

Page 74: ...up screen to verify that the parameters are entered correctly Ensure that the Ethernet cable is connected properly before trying to reconnect Check the status LED on the Ethernet connector on the righ...

Page 75: ...ected Pings second Enter the Ping repetition rate Time out Enter the maximum time allowed between an ICMP ping and echo response Ping Result tab The following results are displayed Ping status Pass or...

Page 76: ...back to top 8 2 3 FTP Test The File Transfer Protocol is used to verify the actual throughput of upstream or downstream data rate by sending or receiving files of known size FTP tab For FTP download...

Page 77: ...p tab To perform a Web Test follow the procedure below Mode Select Web Test from Mode selection Web mode Select Test from the Web mode selection Address Enter the desired IP address or URL destination...

Page 78: ...rowser mode The web page is divided into quadrants Use the slide keys to navigate up down and left right It is possible to navigate links within the screen User can edit the website address and add bo...

Page 79: ...ddresses to Ethernet MAC addresses ARP is defined in RFC 826 Setup tab Profile Recall an address stored as a Profile or enter a desired IP address Source address Enter the IP address range Destination...

Page 80: ...provided to the test set in IP Status Go back to top 8 3 Net Wiz The Net Wiz function allows you to test the Ethernet cable and associated network environment A typical application is shown below Typ...

Page 81: ...t The test set will report the connection type Straight or Cross Over if connected to an end point device If a fault is detected Open or Short the fault will be indicated including the distance to the...

Page 82: ...of devices found Number of devices i e routers servers or hosts Attribute of each device discovered including Ping test result Netwiz Device Discovery page 1 Netwiz Device Discovery page 2 Go back to...

Page 83: ...to load VPAL products support Linksys USB wireless adaptors only and have the necessary software driver built into the Linux operational system Do not use other wireless adaptors as this may damage t...

Page 84: ...s Point however it will not be able to connect to the web or to perform the Ping test Note Select the manual selection to enter the parameters manually if the SSiD did not detect the AP that the user...

Page 85: ...dow of some number of symbols where zero wrong bit positions equals 100 signal quality and more wrong bit positions results in lower signal quality Signal strength and RSSI In reality there are four u...

Page 86: ...IP Phone For IP Phone or VoIP Call Expert mode go to VoIP IP Phone Section For Client mode the user needs to input the Server s IP and Test Duration The File Name and Encoding are preset in the test s...

Page 87: ...nt mode Upstream Stream the voice file to the Server Downstream Once the upstream is completed the downstream test will be performed VOIP Test Complete VOIP Test Complete will be displayed when the te...

Page 88: ...es and R factors Detailed packet RTP statistics Jitter buffer emulation VoIP Expert MOS results VoIP MOS Ratings Note Call Quality Listening Quality LQ Refers to how the users rate what they hear duri...

Page 89: ...quence packets Packet rate Packet jitter Events tab indicates A time stamped log of the various test steps with Pass Fail criteria VoIP Expert Packets results VoIP Expert Event table Go back to top 8...

Page 90: ...on the headphone selection an information box appears prompting you to plug in the VeEX USB headphone adaptor Ensure the headphone USB adapter is properly connected to the test set before pressing OK...

Page 91: ...ddress can be a phone number phone number sipserver or an alias bob sipserver Press Call The status will show the call progress e g Dialing in progress The status changes to Call connected when the de...

Page 92: ...sting The function allows you to perform IPTV testing in a Triple Play network The feature supports Set Top Box STB emulation IGMP RTSP signaling MPEG2 4 H 264 encoding RTP VC1 MPEG TS transport strea...

Page 93: ...ly scans for Channel Name Channel Address Editor tab Allows you to edit IPTV channel name IP address associated with the IPTV channel IPTV Channel Table Setup IPTV Channel Probe Go back to top 8 6 2 R...

Page 94: ...rs Packet loss is typically seen on all channels arriving at the customer because they are not source or content related problems analysis of the DSL or Ethernet physical layer normally determines the...

Page 95: ...Stream Packet Jitter IPTV and Packet Jitter Packet Jitter measurement is based on the packet inter arrival time which is a measure of packet arrival variance Packet jitter affects packet arrival thro...

Page 96: ...s problematic Measuring the interval between the arrival of PCR values the accuracy of the expected values and also the jitter accumulated on those PCR values transmitted is necessary to assure that s...

Page 97: ...Loss These test parameters are defined as Media Delay Factor MDI DF and Media Loss Rate MDI MLR The Delay Factor DF indicates how long a data stream must be buffered at its nominal bit rate to preven...

Page 98: ...equal to 0 The Packet Identifier PID contained within the 4 byte header is a unique channel address identifier allowing identification and reconstruction of the program The PID is used in conjunction...

Page 99: ...how fast and reliably end users can change TV channels also known as channel zapping Essentially it is calculated as the time taken between sending a channel leave request and receiving the first vide...

Page 100: ...nual which has also been stored in the instrument All text is preserved however tables application diagrams screens shots and tables are omitted to save memory space The user can access the table of c...

Page 101: ...test set 9 2 1 About Provides information about the software version serial number and MAC address of the unit About Menu About Menu Page 1 The About menu also allows the user to view installed option...

Page 102: ...ibrate the touch screen when out of calibration Screen Theme Screen Alignment Go back to top 9 2 3 Selftest This utility provides a complete diagnostic of the test set The report can be exported and p...

Page 103: ...to turn off the backlight if the unit is not used This function helps improve the battery autonomy and preserve LCD life To enable the timer check Turn off backlight if device is not used for and with...

Page 104: ...nagement Port Sets LAN management port to Remote Control or IPTV mode Saving Automatic or Advanced Advanced mode enables the Signature pad function File Name Prefix Once entered the prefix will be add...

Page 105: ...ults Press the File button on the rubber keypad The Test Result from the active Test Application is saved in non volatile memory Go back to top 9 3 2 Recalling or Viewing Files or Test Results Capacit...

Page 106: ...interface FTP server Upload or Transfer via the unit s Ethernet interface File transfer using ReVeal software via the unit s Ethernet interface 9 3 3 1 USB File Transfer Setup Select the USB mode to...

Page 107: ...Press OK to exit or to abort the file transfer During the transfer a progress message appears in the file transfer window Transfer Mode File Path USB Transfer Progress A Transfer finished message app...

Page 108: ...e appears after the FTP file transfer is complete A Warning message will appear if the upload process is interrupted or corrupted After the results are exported please use ReVeal MX software to manage...

Page 109: ...u Go back to top 9 4 1 Profiles Profiles menu allows you to Manage Test Applications Create and edit applications including measurement thresholds IPTV Channel table Create new or edit existing IPTV c...

Page 110: ...you to Download Results Manage Results Create Reports Convert Results to PDF format Convert Results to CSV Comma Separated Value format Print Results to a selected printer ReVeal MX Results Menu MX100...

Page 111: ...allows you to Download software from the VeEX website to upgrade the test set Enable or Disable software options Check test set configuration Upgrade test set software ReVeal MX Software Menu MX100 1...

Page 112: ...ument The test instrument must be connected to the PC via an IP connection Select the remote control application located in the Tools menu Start the remote control application For detailed information...

Page 113: ...within thirty 30 days of the request by the customer freight prepaid Software Coverage VeEX Inc warrants software and firmware materials against defects in materials and workmanship During the warrant...

Page 114: ...r on the unit without prior authorization written from VeEX Inc Unauthorized alteration or misusage Damage occurred from operating the unit from outside of the environmental specifications for the pro...

Page 115: ...tronic products All applicable products imported into the EU market after July 1 2006 must pass RoHS compliance Click here for ROHS Statement relating to VeEX products Go back to top 13 0 About VeEX V...

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