EXFO s FTB-8510B Packet Blazer brings performance assurance to Ethernet-based services. Its wide range of test functionalities provides all the necessary measurement tools for verifying service-level agreements (SLAs) between service providers and their customers.

The FTB-8510B module tests connectivity in its native format: 10/100/1000Base-T, 100Base-FX, 100Base-LX, 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX and 1000Base-ZX for today s Ethernet services. The FTB-8510B module is the ideal tool for turning-up and troubleshooting Ethernet-based mobile backhaul, commercial and wholesale services.

Combined with its rack-mounted manufacturing/R&D-environment counterpart, the IQS-8510B Packet Blazer, the FTB-8510B simplifies and speeds up the deployment of Ethernet services.

Key Features

• Complete EtherSAM (ITU-T Y.156sam) test suite allowing full validation of today s Ethernet services (bidirectional results through dual test set) (patent pending)
• Throughput, back-to-back, latency and frame loss measurements as per RFC 2544 (bidirectional results through dual test set)
• Multistream generation and analysis, providing per-stream measurements for throughput, latency, frame loss and packet jitter
• True wire-speed and stateful TCP throughput testing
• PBB-TE and MPLS support for carrier Ethernet
• IPTV testing and analysis
• Dual port capability for simultaneous traffic generation and reception at 100 % wire speed for 10/100/1000Base-T, 100Base-FX, 100Base-LX,
• 1000Base-SX, 1000Base-LX or 1000Base-ZX full-duplex networks at all packet sizes
• Ethernet in the First Mile 802.3ah testing
• Fibre Channel 1x and 2x test suite
• Easy-to-use smart user interface (SUI) for configurable screens, customization of test suites, as well as real-time and historical performance reporting
• Remote control capability through Visual Guardian Lite and VNC software
• Configurable advanced filters for in-depth network troubleshooting
• Service disruption time measurement
• IPv6 testing