Ether.Genius

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)

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

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

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

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

Cable features

Cable tests

• Wiremap
• Skew
• Cable Diagnostics
• Distance to fault

  Power over Ethernet

• PoE and PoE+
• Volts / Current

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