Traffic tab:
The user configures the traffic profile for the stream, including traffic flow, frame size, frame type, and transmit rate.
Traffic Flow:
Select from the following traffic flows:
Constant:
The selected frame is transmitted continuously according to the selected bandwidth %.
Burst:
The selected frame is transmitted in a staircase profile according to user selectable step time, number of
steps, and maximum bandwidth.
Ramp:
The selected frame is transmitted at maximum bandwidth according to the selected duty cycle and burst
period.
Single Burst:
Configure the number of frames to be transmitted in the burst along with the bandwidth. For example,
if 100000 frames are transmitted at 12.5% of bandwidth, on a 1Gbps line, 100000 frames will transmit at a rate of
125Mbps and then the burst will stop.
Frame Size:
Fixed or Uniform min and max frame length values. Uniform traffic is traffic generated with a uniform
distribution of frame lengths.
Frame Size:
Enter the frame size when a Layer 2, Layer 3, or Layer 4 BERT is selected.
Frame size configuration is not available for Layer 1 BERT.
Frame sizes can be from 64 bytes to 1518 bytes, in addition to jumbo frames up to 10000 bytes.
BW (Transmit Bandwidth):
Configure the transmit rate for the test.
When traffic flow is equal to Burst, two burst bandwidths are configured with burst time.
When traffic flow is equal to Ramp, starting and an ending bandwidth are configured along with the bandwidth step
size and duration.
Single Burst
BERT Setup - Layer 1 Constant Traffic
BERT Setup - Layer 2 & 3 Burst Traffic
Frame Size Limitations
Layer 1 framed mode - Frame size configuration is not available.
Layer 1 unframed mode - Traffic profile is constant at 100% bandwidth.
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