MX120 Introduction:
The MX120 is part of the MX product family - in essence the MX120 is similar to having two MX100's in one chassis. The default
configuration of the MX120 allows for single port operation (same as the MX100) and pass through monitor mode. Pass through
monitor mode enables bidirectional monitoring between the two 1000Base-X ports or the two 10/100/1000 Base-T ports.
Dual Port operation
When the dual port interfaces and software options are enabled, the test set can operate a combination of two ports at the
same time with the following physical port operation combinations:
Port 1 10/100/1000Base-T and Port 2 10/100/1000Base-T (copper ports only)
Port 1 1000Base-X and Port 2 1000Base-X (fiber ports only)
Port 1 10/100/1000Base-T and Port 1 1000Base-X (copper and fiber port combination)
Port 1 (Throughput) and Port 2 (Throughput)
Port 1 (Loopback) and Port 2 (any application)
Port 1 (any application) and Port 2 (Loopback)
Port 1 (Loopback) and Port 2 (Loopback)
Test Applications:
When the unit is operating in any of the physical ports above, each port (single or dual) will be
enabled to run the same test application.
BERT
- Unframed / Framed Layer 1, and Framed Layer 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
specifications.
Throughput
- Ethernet traffic generation and analysis with multiple-streams to verify network throughput and jitter
Loopback
- Loop back the transmitted data while swapping the source and destination addresses of the MAC, IP
and UDP layers.
When the MX120 is operating in any of the physical port combinations described above, each port will by enabled to run the same
application (BERT, RFC 2544, Throughput). The configuration parameters (header, bandwidth, etc) for each application (on each of
the ports) are completely independent from one another - for example;
Port 1 (RFC 2544) and Port 2 (RFC 2544)
Port 1 (BERT) and Port 2 (BERT)
MX120 - Dual Port Test Application
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