Solution Overview

 The M1 Appliance is the industry’s highest density, compact appliance that offers a comprehensive portfolio of products that will help generate, analyze, capture, and f ilter network packets. M1 Appliance combines Spirent’s industry-leading Layer 2–3 traffic generation and analysis with powerful network emulation and application layer protocols for emulating a wide range of device types, users, and protocols. The M1 also delivers the highest performance with the most competitive total cost of ownership (TCO) in a compact 2U appliance form factor. The M1 can be used in a benchtop lab environment where excessive equipment noise can be an issue for operators or in a traditional test lab environment. The M1’s flexibility makes it perfect throughout the test lifecycle for functional, performance, and benchmark testing of data center and service provider network infrastructure and evolving SDN and NFV technologies

Applications

• SDN and data center: Validate forwarding performance and functional capabilities of Software-Defined Networks (SDN) with ultra-low latency and flexible port density.

• Device benchmarking: Test using IETF RFC 2544, RFC 2889, & RFC 3918 methodologies with easy test setup using dynamically bound traffic and automated wizards

• Core and edge routers & switches: Verify scale, reliability, and performance of Layer 2 & 3 services, including data, multicast, and video delivered via unicast routing,

• Carrier Ethernet: Verify scale, reliability, and performance of Ethernet services delivered via Ethernet OAM, MPLS-TP, VPLS, PWE3 Pseudowire, bridged Ethernet, packet transport protocols, or combinations of these technologies

• Subscriber emulation: Verify setup & teardown of thousands of access subscribers using different services over various tunneling technologies (VLAN, L2GRE, MPLS, VPNs, VPLS, etc...) under normal or exceptional traffic conditions

Features & Benefits

• Multi-speed 100/50/40/25/10/5G/2.5G/1G, and 10/100M/1000M Ethernet for f lexible interconnect with various options, including Long Reach optical transceiver, Short Reach optical transceiver, Direct Attached Copper Cable (DAC), and 1GBASE-T

• Low noise for benchtop operation in proximity to users

• Traffic and protocol performance identical to fX2 mainframe test modules and fully interoperable with all Spirent TestCenter hardware

• Full chassis chaining and external timing synch available via direct connect, NTP, PTP, GPS, and CDMA

• Full suite of Spirent TestCenter protocols and test packages are available