2.2 Introduction
The is part of the MX product family - in essence the is similar to having two units in one chassis.
The default configuration of the allows for single port operation (same as the ), dual port operation, and pass
through monitor mode. Pass through monitor mode enables bidirectional monitoring between the two 100Base-FX/1000Base-X
ports or the two 10/100/1000Base-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 100Base-FX/1000Base-X and Port 2 100BaseFX/1000Base-X (fiber ports only)
Port 1 10/100/1000Base-T and Port 1 1000Base-X (copper and fiber port combination)
Port 1 and Port 2
Port 1 (any application) and Port 2 (Loopback)
Port 1 (Loopback) and Port 2 (Loopback)
Test Applications
When operating in single port operation, any of the following test applications are available. When operating in dual port
operation, one port can run any of these test applications while the other port provides loopback.
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.
V-SAM
test suite in conformance to ITU-T Y.1564 standard.
Pass through monitor between two 10/100/1000Base-T copper ports or two 100Base-FX/1000Base-X fiber ports.
MX series - Dual Port Test Application
3.0 Safety Information
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