Testing FPGAs & NICs

Indian ODM chooses 100GE Xena solution to test FGPAs and NICs

A leading ODM specializing in FPGAs and NICs had a large R&D facility in India. Acting on the recommendation of a US-based FPGA partner, they requested an evaluation of Xena’s Xena platform to test their FPGAs at 100GE. This testing required multiple stream generation capabilities and RFC2544 testing.

Cost-effective Multi-speed testing and RFC2544

They were shown a Xena solution consisting of a XenaCompact with a Z100 Loki-100G test module. They were immediately attracted by the option of testing 5 speeds – 10/25/40/50/100GE – on the same port on the same port as this made the Xena solution very cost effective. The option for RFC2544 testing is included in the Xena software package.

Xena2544 is a standalone application that supports the 4 test-types specified in RFC2544. There are extensive configuration options, support for single stream and multi-stream testing and it is easy to define protocol layers supported by the test (Ethernet, Customer and Service VLANs, IP and UDP) as needed.

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