Keysight Released 100 GE Networks Test Appliance : UHD100T32

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Date : 09-Mar-2020
Location: Kuala Lumpur

Key Takeaways:
  • Keysight Technologies, Inc., released UHD100T32 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) test system, the industry's first test system purpose-built to help data center operators and network equipment manufacturers meet the density and cost-per-bit challenges of validating 100GE devices and networks.
Spokepersons:
  • Mark Pierpoint, president, Keysight,said,the UHD100T32 test solution provides a cost-effective solution that enables our customers to validate 100GE performance, scalability and interoperability with confidence.
  • Ed Doe, VP & GM of Barefoot Division,at Intel,said, the product offers the expanding demand of multi-terabit switch products to meet verifications.
Offering:
  • Keysight's new UHD100T32 test system, co-developed with Barefoot Networks, an Intel company, is purpose-built to meet the requirements of the modern networking infrastructure ecosystem. In a space-saving 1U box, users get the power of 3.2 Tbps of line-rate test traffic from 32 ports of 100GE, a requirement to validate the performance of ultra-high-density devices like those found in today's data centers and in manufacturing use cases for full box tests in production lines.
  • With all fan-out speeds (50/40/25/10GE) enabled, UHD100T32 has the flexibility to test all speeds in a data center fabric.

UHD100T32 32-Port 100GE Test System



Insights:
  • With mass deployment in modern data centers, 100GE technologies have matured. Cloud service providers, communications service providers and network equipment manufacturers are now challenged with density and cost pressures on their test infrastructure. This typically leads to a compromise in testing cycles and the use of test systems and methodologies that don't allow for comprehensive quality control.
Best Practices:
  • It also includes Keysight's proven technology for Layer 2/3 traffic generation and analysis and RFC 2544 tests for benchmarking throughput and latency of devices. Optional routing protocols are available for Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), and Intermediate System to Intermediate System (ISIS) that allow users to emulate from control plane to data plane for convergence testing. A clientless operation via web interface and modern "Representational State Transfer" (REST) application programming interface (API) enable faster time to test and easy automation.
Editor's comments:
  • The UHD100T32 test system is an appliance for data centers to test 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) networks, using software to simulate the data and traffic.
  • It allows network engineers to simulate theoretical maximum data rate of one gigabit per second (1,000 Mbps).

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