Spirent FBC-3602A 1G and 2G Fibre Channel SmartMetrics Module

Description

Spirent – FBC-3602A Features & Specifications:

Spirent’s SmartBits FBC-3601A and FBC-3602A SmartMetrics modules allow SAN equipment manufacturers, storage system vendors, Storage Service Providers (SSPs), IT managers, and test labs to categorize the true performance, reliability, and quality of Fibre Channel-based SAN equipment and fabrics. The Fibre Channel modules emulate hundreds of attached devices, such as servers and storage systems. Combining the Fibre Channel modules with the SmartWindow test application, SmartBits is a powerful test platform for high-port density traffic generation and analysis. Requires Gigabit Interface Converter (GBIC) ACC-6019A (multi-mode) or ACC-6020A (single-mode).

Spirent – FBC-3602A Specifications

• Scale up to 192 ports
• Full line rate traffic up to 2-Gbit/second
• Simulate thousands of end nodes
• Quick set up time
• Repeatable deterministic traffic

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  Full line-rate traffic generation and analysis at 1 Gbps (FBC-3601A) and 1 and 2 Gbps (FBC-3602A).
  
• Generate up to 512 independent data streams and analyze up to 64K streams at any given time.
  
• Simulate an entire network of end-devices and switches.
  
• Stress F-ports, FL-ports, and E-ports of Fibre Channel switches.
  
• Support Point-to-Point and Loop (public and private) modes.
  
• Perform loop initialization, fabric login, and name server registration for one or many devices.
  
• Emulate up to 126 source devices on a loop.
  
• Support per-stream payload and frame size (4 to 16KB) settings and per-port transmission mode control settings (continuous, single-burst, multi-burst, contin-uous multi-burst, and echo).
  
• Real-life traffic shaping through random frame length, inter-frame gap, and frame content settings.
  
• Arbitrary stream sequencing enables the mixing of var-ious frame rates.
  
• Per-port statistics provide counters for transmitted frames, received frames, received bytes, and received CRC errors.
  
• A 16MB capture buffer enables the logging and exporting of filtered events to external protocol analy-sis equipment.
  
• Full SmartMetrics testing capabilities include sequence tracking per stream, latency over time, laten-cy per stream, and latency variation.
  
• Verify payload data integrity.