Agilent Technologies RouterTester Gigabit/Terabit Router Performance Test System

Sponsor: Agilent Technologies

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Document Number: 200234

Publication Date: 12/1/2000

Page Count: 6

Abstract

Agilent Technologies commissioned The Tolly Group to evaluate its RouterTester, a network simulation system specifically designed for testing the performance of gigabit and terabit routers. The system tested was equipped with OC-12c (622 Mbit/s) and OC-48c (2.488 Gbit/s) Packet over SONET/SDH interfaces. The Tolly Group verified that the RouterTester could advertise hundreds of thousands of routes to the router under test, and then send many streams of variable length packets over these routes. Engineers also evaluated the RouterTester to perform router stability tests, wherein the ability of a router to forward packets during periods of route flapping is measured. Finally, engineers demonstrated that the RouterTester could generate traffic marked with different levels of QoS and could measure the router’s response to processing these streams under high-stress congestion.