OK, somewhat off track from regular topics. I am looking to build/assemble/buy some high-accuracy testing/measurement equipment for network kit.
Essentially, I want to be able to generate traffic, and test/verify latency of network kit, a chain of network kit, or some configuration thereof. It might be nice to be able to use it to generate pcap data to look at separately to analyze application data going to/from servers, but that's a phase 2 idea at best and would most likely involve putting taps in lines and pulling data to a central box and comparing that way; something that could timestamp-tag packets going by for later measurement would be really cool for that. However, I sense that this is a totally different type of product than what I mention above. I shouldn't need over 8 gigabit ports, or 4 10G ports. I'm assuming this will cost me somewhere between 20k-30k. So far what I see is the old trusty SmartBits stuff (which is difficult to decipher from the web page as to what's what and what you'd need) and Ixia. Anyone else in this sector to look at? Experiences from the peanut gallery? Helpful posters may be allowed to play with the equipment when installed. :) Thanks, -bacon --- Jeff Bacon CTO, Walleye Trading Advisors/Walleye Software LLC p.763-489-1690/m.917-587-6624/[email protected] _______________________________________________ cisco-nsp mailing list [email protected] https://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/cisco-nsp archive at http://puck.nether.net/pipermail/cisco-nsp/
