TECHNOLOGIES & PRODUCTS
World’s First 50Gb Ethernet Test System S pirent unveiled the world’s first 50Gb/s Higher Speed Ethernet
test solution that will enable its customers to meet the growing needs of the cloud service provider (CSP) space. Spirent has successfully completed the industry’s first 50GbE interoperability test with a global leader in cloud services and infrastructure. The 50GbE Boost test system used in the interoperability test provided full wire-rate packet generation and analysis at 50Gb/s. The 50GbE Boost tests layer 1 to layer 3 quality and highlights error-free performance with different combinations of streams, frame lengths and rates by delivering per-port and per-stream statistics such as latency, frames out of sequence, frame counts and rates, L1 PRBS capability and layer 1 statistics to help debug physical link problems. By demonstrating this ability during the interoperability test, Spirent continues to build on its leadership in high speed Ethernet, showcased in its N etworking systems provider, XKL LLC, has announced it is conducting a series of private demonstrations for its 100GE coherent product line, eVolocity, which is due for public release later this year. The eVolocity products have 480G of capacity per 1RU system and act as a “bandwidth on demand” solution for increased flexibility and scalability. The coherent product line is developed by XKL’s team of engineers and spearheaded
The 50GbE Boost test system provides full y-rate packet generation and analysis at 50Gb/s
50GbE specification cost- effectively increases network bandwidth to allow for cloud service providers to increase the performance and breadth of their services. Because of the work of the 25G/50G consortium, and accelerated by the industry’s work on 100GbE, the basic building blocks for 50 GbE are now in place. With its new 50G Boost program, Spirent is providing a path forward for industry leaders to get their initial 50 Gigabit Ethernet products to market. be costly when deploying a network. The DQM10 upgrade is a cost-effective solution for quickly increasing bandwidth capacity without incurring large capital expenditures at initial deployment. Furthermore, the optional upgrade does not require additional costs when purchasing the base system. The customer decides if the upgrade is needed at a later time, not XKL” Chad added. The DQM10 supports Ethernet (10GbE, 40GbE, and 100GbE), SONET (OC48, OC192) and fibre channel (2, 4, and 8Gb/s) client-side interfaces. Deployment can be achieved in under an hour (in many instances in about 10 minutes) and is designed for network IT staff familiar with a router-like command line interface.
the rapid adoption of 25G and 50G server links will drive the move to 100GbE and beyond for the uplinks from the leaf nodes to the spine nodes.” The 25G/50G Ethernet Consortium specification for Gigabit Ethernet (50GbE) benefits cloud and enterprise data centre environments with high bandwidth server workloads or very low latency requirements. The 25G/50G Ethernet Consortium was formed to enable 25GE and 50GE solutions and promote standardisation efforts. The networking solutions. XKL is leading the way for bandwidth on demand systems within the optical networking space and we anticipate implementation of the eVolocity product line to be a necessity as data traffic demands continue to increase.” The company also recently introduced a DQM10 appliance bandwidth upgrade, which accommodates expansion from 120Gb/s to 240Gb/s, or 360Gb/s in a compact one rack unit appliance. The upgradable feature provides a ‘pay as you grow’ solution, offering data centre, service provider and network engineer flexibility for economical scalability. “Forecasting bandwidth needs is complicated and a simple miscalculation could
upcoming QUINT-speed MX3, FX3, DX3 module series for 100/50/40/25/10GbE. “According to Dell’Oro Group 2015 data, 50Gbps servers will represent more than 30 percent of server shipments in 2019, up from essentially zero percent today,” says Abhitesh Kastuar, General Manager of Spirent’s Cloud and IP business. “With virtualised applications driving server performance it makes sense that access speeds are increasing from 10 to 25 and further to 50Gbps. I believe by the company’s CEO and Founder, Len Bosack. The products use a technique which allows for allocation of bandwidth on an as-needed basis. In addition, the eVolocity products maximise idle capacity of various encapsulation rates for a range of 10GE, 40GE, and 100GE users. “As with all XKL products, our systems are engineered with the future in mind,” says Chad Lamb, Director of Engineering for XKL. “The market is evolving and spectral efficiency is becoming essential for optical
XKL announce private demonstrations of 100GE coherent products
The eVolocity has 480G of capacity per 1RU system
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ISSUE 6 | Q1 2016
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