JDSU make some nice ones that we use to qualify cell tower back haul. Not cheap though
-----Original Message----- From: "Jeremy Austin" <jhaus...@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 11:29am To: "James Breeden" <ja...@arenalgroup.co>, "n...@flhsi.com" <n...@flhsi.com>, "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org> Subject: Re: RFC2544 Testing Equipment JW, have you moved on to EtherSAM? That's what I'd be looking for myself. On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 7:28 AM James Breeden <ja...@arenalgroup.co> wrote: > When we had to do this once in a blue moon, we just bought a pair of old > Agilent Framescopes off ebay. They worked great but we had issues getting > reporting out of them. They had RJ45 and SFP on them. > > -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces+james=arenalgroup...@nanog.org] On > Behalf Of Nick Olsen > Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2017 10:23 AM > To: nanog@nanog.org > Subject: RFC2544 Testing Equipment > > Greetings all, > > Looking for a good test set. Primary use will be testing L2 circuits > (It'll technically be VPLS, But the test set will just see L2). Being able > to test routed L3 would also be useful. Most of the sets I've seen are two > sided, A "reflector" at the remote side, And the test set in hand run by > the technician. > > Looking to test up to 1Gb/s at various packet sizes, Measure Packet loss, > Jitter..etc. Primarily Copper, But if it had some form of optical port, I > wouldn't complain. Outputting a report that we can provide to the customer > would be useful, But isn't mandatory. Doesn't need anything fancy, Like > MPLS awareness, VLAN ID's..etc. > > > Nick Olsen > Sr. Network Engineer > Florida High Speed Internet > (321) 205-1100 x106 > > > > > > > >
