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Ether11.Genius award in Interop Japan


Built-in Rubidium clock
ideal hold over for PTP
test and Analysis

Ether.Genius foot


PTP master/slave emulation
Freq: TIE, MTIE, TDEV, FPP, FPR
Phase: TE, max |TE|, d|TE|, c|TE|
SyncE, T1/E1, 1/2/10MHz, 1pps, GNSS


Ether.Genius front


Equipped with 4xSMA, 2xSFP+
3xRJ45, 2xBNC, DTE/DCE ports


Ether10.Genius Network interfaces


Ether10.Genius platform interfaces and Datacom Network interfaces


Save time: SIMULTANEOUS
wander test of PTP and SyncE

Built-in Rubidium


Compare vs. VEEX / VIAVI
Genius = VALUE for money




Ether.Genius

Built-in Rubidium Ether.Genius is a handheld tester 100% suitable for labs or field use because is full equipped (IP/Ethernet/PTP/T1/E1), battery operated (up to 24h of operation), light (1.1kg) and very rugged. The unit is able to test Ethernet/IP networks up to 1Gb/s while supporting master/slave Sync-E/PTP emulation. It also has interfaces for PDH/T1/E1/E0 and IEEE C37.94. Operation modes includes Performance, Quality and Wander tests at all interfaces and the ability to emulate and analyse PTP/SyncE, while measuring Freq./Phase, PDV metrics, analyse/generate TIE/MTIE/TDEV and TE. A built-in Rubidium clock disciplined with GPS provides an accuracy of a few nsec.

You may buy just a last generation dual port 1GbE tester and then you may add other interfaces just when you need it by a simple and easy upgrade by code. Then you will be able to get the new firmware supporting the desired functionalities.

Platform

Multiport Interfaces

  • A:B ports: 2 x SFP (100MbE, 1GbE)
  • A:B ports: 2 x RJ45 (10MbE, 100MbE, 1GbE)
  • C:D ports: Balanced 2 x RJ45 (T1/E1)
  • C:D ports: Unbalanced 2 x BNC (T1/E1)
  • DTE/DCE ports: V.35, V.24 / RS 232, V.11 / X.21, V.36, RS:530
  • GNSS Port: SMA female
  • PPS Ports: 3xSMA female (i/o)

Ether.Genius TIE measurement

Operation / Results

  • Graphical results MTIE and TDEV
  • Navigation: by touch screen, keyboard, mouse
  • Remote Control: by VNC
  • Storage capacity: one week of results
  • Export: results in pdf/txt/csv through USB interface or SD card
  • Report export to remote host through Ethernet / IP

Ergonomics

  • Protection: shock-proof and rubber boot
  • Light and easy to carry (weight: 1.2 kg)
  • Start: Manual / Timed with optional password
  • Batteries

  • T1/E1 operation time = t > 24h
  • GbE operation time = t > 12h
  • 10GbE operation time = t > 6h (Ether10.Genius)

Time / Clocks

Internal Clocks

  • Default better than ±2.0 ppm
  • OCXO better than ±0.1 ppm
  • Rubidium better than ±5.0e-11 (GPS disciplined, warm- up: 600s)

Internal Rubidium clock

    Free―run (No GPS)

  • Freq. accuracy (7.5 minutes warm up): ± e-9
  • Freq. accuracy on shipment (24 h. warm up): ±5.0e-11
  • Aging (1 day, 24 hours warm up): ±0.5e-11
  • Aging (1 year): ±1e-9
  • GPS locked

  • Time accuracy (24 h. locked): ±50 ns
  • Hold - over (after 24 h. locked)

  • Freq. accuracy: 1.5e-11 / 24h
  • Time accuracy: ±100 ns / 2h, ±1.0μs / 24 h

Input Clock References

  • Rates: 1.544 Mb/s, 2.048 Mb/s, 1.544 MHz, 2.048 MHz, 10 MHz
  • Built-in GPS receiver, 1 pps
  • SyncE

Output Clock

  • 1.544 MHz, 2.048 MHz, 10 MHz
  • 1 pps

SyncE and PTP testing

  • PTP profiles: Telecom and Power
  • Encapsulations: Ethernet and UDP
  • Clock emulation: Master / Slave, Unicast/Multicast, 128 packet/s
  • PDV capture, protocol analysis and correction field support

Ethernet PTP Frequency testing

  • Floor Delay Population (G.8260): FPC, FPR, FPP
  • Wander: Analysis and Generation TIE, MTIE and TDEV (in real time)

Ethernet PTP Phase testing

  • Measured at GbE and 1pps interfaces
  • Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|), Dynamic (dTE), Constant Time Error (cTE)

1 pps testing

  • Jitter
  • Wander: TIE, MTIE, TDEV
  • Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|), Dynamic (dTE), Constant Time Error (cTE)

Synchronous Ethernet

  • ESMC / SSM: Generation, decoding and transparent forwarding
  • Wander: Analysis/Generation: TIE, MTIE and TDEV (in real time)

Latency/Delay measurements

Datacom, C37.94, E1, T1, and 1GbE interfaces

  • Round-trip delay (RTD)
  • One-way delay (OWD) GPS assisted

Ethernet PTP (GbE)

  • Path delay asymmetry
  • End-to-end / peer-to-peer path delay mechanisms
  • Master-to-slave / Slave-to-grandmaster latency
  • PTP packet delay variation test

Fig 1. How to turn-up a Synchronisation network.


Ethernet/IP Testing

8 x independent streams

  • Streams: may use individual sour/dest. addresses and bandwidth profile
  • Internet Protocol: IPv4 / IPv6 support
  • Frames: DIX, VLAN, Q-in-Q, CoS (DSCP/PCP), MPLS, and Jumbo
  • IP with UDP or arbitrary protocol
  • DHCP for source IP and ARP for destination MAC

Counts et statistics

  • Frame counts, IP traffic statistics, and bit rate
  • Top ten VLAN, MAC, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
  • QoS: Latency, Delay variation, Loss ratio, SES, Availability, Out-of-Sequence, Duplicated

BER Tests et Patterns

  • Traffic generation: Continuous, Burst, Ramp, Random
  • PHY layer: RPAT, JPAT, SPAT, HFPAT, LFPAT, MFPAT, LCRPAT, SCRPAT
  • Layer 2/4 PRBS: 2e11-1, 2e15-1, 2e20-1, 2e23-1, 2e31-1
  • Layer 2/4 PRBS: all inverted versions

Symmetric/Asymmetric RFC-2544

  • Throughput
  • Latency
  • Loss
  • Back-to-back
  • System Recovery

Symmetric/Asymmetric eSAM (Y.1564)

  • Latency, Delay Variation, Loss, and Availability
  • Eight / four services (colour/not colour)
  • CIR, EIR, max, Througput

Loopback

  • L1 - L4 loopback mode
  • Traffic filtering by
  • sour/dest MAC/IP/Port
  • VLAN, CoS (DSCP/PCP)
  • Protocol

Fig 2. How to Qualify the Transport Layer.


PDH / T.Carrier testing

    Interfaces

  • T1 (ANSI T1.102)
  • E1 (ITU-T G.703)
  • E0/Co-Directional (ITU-T G.703)
  • Modes

  • Terminal
  • Monitor
  • High Impedance
  • Pass-through
  • T1: Framed SF and ESF and unframed Generation/Analysis
  • E1: Framed PCM-30 / 31 with/without CRC and Unframed signals
  • T1/E1: Display and Edition: all fields, CAS, Pulse Masks, Events
  • Channel map: Busy/Free, External Drop/Insert of 64 kb/s co-dir or datacom
  • Measurements

  • BER
  • Line/Freq
  • Errors/Alarms
  • G.821, G.826, M.2100
  • VF: tone generation/analysis
  • Attenuation, Freq, Freq. deviation, Level, Peak codes
  • Synchronization

  • Jitter analysis: Peak to peak, RMS, hits, count (0.1 to 100 kHz range)
  • Wander: Analysis/Generation and masks (1 μHz to 10 Hz range)
  • Wander Analysis/Generation in 10 MHz, 2048 kHz, 1544 kHz, 1pps

Fig 3. Good Synchronisation practices.


C37.94 testing

C37.94 SFPs

  • Multi-mode: SFP 850 nm, 2048 kbit/s, 1500 meters
  • Single-mode; SFP 1310 nm, 2048 kbit/s, 10 km
  • Fully Integrated SFP
  • Operation Modes

  • Unframed or framed operation
  • Clock: Recovered or Internal
  • End point or terminal mode
  • Results with PASS/FAIL indications

    Analysis & Generation

  • Bit Rate generation in steps of nx64 kb/s up to 768 kb/s
  • BER test
  • ITU-T G.821 performance test
  • Event Detection / Insertion
  • Defects: LOS, AIS, LOF, RDI, LSS, All 0, All 1
  • Anomalies: FAS, TSE, Slip

    Delay & Freq. Tests

  • Round Trip Delay (ms)
  • One-way Delay synchronized with GPS
  • Frequency (Hz)
  • Frequency Deviation (ppm), max. Deviation

    Fig 4. Check the Base Station.


    Cable features

      Cable tests

    • Wiremap
    • Skew
    • Cable Diagnostics
    • Distance to fault

      Power over Ethernet

    • PoE and PoE+
    • Volts / Current

    Fig 5. Would your network pass the PTP Conformity?


    Datacom testing

      Modes

    • Terminal emulation
    • Bi-directional Monitoring
    • Datacom / E1 mux
    • Display and Edition

    • DTE/DCE control circuit
    • Timing circuits
    • Binary rates
    • Tests

    • BER, Frequency
    • Insertion/Analysis of events
    • G.821

    Fig 6. PTP Master and Slave emulation.