Award Winning Solutions
Xena has won multiple global awards for price/performance and technical innovation. Learn more.
Technical Expertise
Copyright © 2009-2024 Teledyne LeCroy Xena ApS, Denmark
What is Z10 Odin?
Odin might be the god of war in Nordic mythology, but in the world of Ethernet testing, Z10 Odin is a key part of Xena’s Ethernet Traffic Generator solution.
Odin can test Ethernet devices at 6 speeds up to 10Gbps – 10/100/1000M and 2.5/5/10G.
The Xena Traffic Generator platform includes Z100 Loki (NRZ testing 10G to 100G), Z400 Thor (NRZ testing 10 to 100G and PAM4 testing 50G to 400G), and Z800 Freya (currently PAM4 testing 50G to 800G) and in the future also 1.6 Terabits.
Speeds and technology
Z10 Odin generates Ethernet traffic using NRZ (non-return to zero) modulation. NRZ is a modulation technique for serial communications that uses two voltage levels to represent logic 0 and logic 1. Z10 Odin supports Ethernet testing of NRZ data rates of 10Mbps/100Mbps/1G/2.5G/5G and 10G.
Hardware
There are currently seven Odin traffic generators (see table below). All are available in both Xena’s fixed 1U Compact chassis (see above), and Xena’s modular 4U B720/2400 chassis. Note however that the Z10cc Odin is only available in the Compact chassis.
Software
All Xena solutions includes user-friendly software to make it quick and easy to perform a multitude of relevant performance, QA, compliancy and functional testing: XenaManager, applications for automated RFC 2544, Y.1564, RFC 2889 and RFC 3918 testing, Xena OpenAutomation and XenaTimeSynch.
Add Impairment Emulation with E100 Chimera
Many factors can impede data traffic as it crosses different networks. Network emulators are a cost-effective tool for helping verify if equipment can handle real-world conditions. That’s why the Xena Ethernet Test Platform also includes the E100 Chimera, a network emulation test module that makes it easy to emulate multiple forms of latency, jitter and other forms of impairment to Ethernet traffic.
E100 Chimera supports full wire-speed impairment at five speeds up to 100Gbps and works seamlessly with Xena traffic generators, allowing you to both generate and impair traffic via the same XenaManager GUI – a feature unique to the Xena platform.
| Types of Impairment | ||
|---|---|---|
| Latency/Jitter | Packet Impairments | Flexible Distributions |
| Constant delay Accumulate and burst Step delay Gaussian / Gamma / Poisson Jitter Custom Jitter | Drip Mis-ordering Duplication Corruption (ETH, IP, UDP, TCP) | Manual Gaussian, Gamma, Poisson Burst drop (random / fixed) Gilbert-Elliot Bit Error Rate Custom Distributions |
| BW Shaping | Port Impairments | Misc. Features |
| Input policing Output shaping | Optical link flap Logical link flap PMA error pulse injection | syncE (Tx follow recovered clk) |
Z10 Odin: for Ethernet Testing up to 10Gbps
| Z10sx Odin | Z10s Odin | Z10cc Odin | Z10r Odin | Z01s Odin | Z01sx Odin* | Z01t Odin | |
| Interfaces | 6 SFP+ | 6 SFP+ | 2 SFP+ 4 SFP | 6 RJ45 | 6 SFP | 6 SFP | 3 RJ45 |
| Ports x Speeds | 6 x 10GBASE-SR / LR / ER / T* / Direct Attached Cable (DAC) *Requires SFP-10G-T-NC Prolabs 10G SFP+ 10GBASE-T | 6x 10G BASE-SR / LR / DAC | 2x 10G BASE SR / LR / DAC – 4x 100M / 1G optical or 10M / 100M / 1G Base-T | 6x 100M / 1G / 2,5G / 5G / 10G Base-T copper | 6x 100M / 1G optical or 10M / 100M / 1G Base-T | 6x 100M / 1G optical or 10M / 100M / 1G Base-T | 6 x 100M / 1G Base-T1 copper – For testing Automotive Ethernet ECUs |
| XenaCompact | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| XenaBay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Try Odin Now:
Fill in the form below and we will send you a link where you can download the latest version of Xena. We’ll include instructions on how to install and connect to Xena’s live demo system which consists of two XenaBay chassis connected to various switches and routers.
Link to: Contact
Talk to an expert
Looking for specific information? Like a quick guided demo? We'd love to hear from you!
Tell us what you need and we will put you in direct contact with the best qualified person to help you, whether it’s an engineer, a product manager or a sales representative.