for testing Ethernet traffic of NRZ speeds: 10Mbps / 100Mbps / 1G / 2.5G / 5G / 10G

What is Odin?

Odin might be the god of war in Nordic mythology, but in the world of Ethernet testing, Odin is a key part of the Valkyrie product line, which is Xena’s stateless Ethernet Traffic Generation & Analysis (TGA) solution.

Odin supports testing of Ethernet devices at 6 speeds up to 10Gbps – 10/100/1000M and 2.5/5/10G.

In the Valkyrie line we also have Loki (NRZ testing 10G to 100G), Thor (supports 50G PAM4,it/s PAM4 testing 50G to 400G), and Freya (currently PAM4 testing 100G to 800G and in the future also 1.6 Terabits).

Speeds and technology

Odin uses NRZ technology. NRZ modulation has been used for Ethernet signals sent over data lines for many years. NRZ stands for “non-return to zero” – a modulation technique for serial communications that uses two voltage levels to represent logic 0 and logic 1. Odin supports Ethernet testing of NRZ data rates of 10Mbps/100Mbps/1G/2.5G/5G and 10G.

Hardware

Odin exists in 6 different versions (see table below). Each version is available in Xena’s fixed 1U ValkyrieCompact chassis. Five of the Odin versions are also available as test modules that can be used with Xena’s modular 4U ValkyrieBay chassis.

Software

All Valkyrie solutions includes user-friendly software to make it quick and easy to perform a multitude of relevant performance, QA, compliancy and functional testing: ValkyrieManager, applications for automated RFC 2544, Y.1564, RFC 2889 and RFC 3918 testing, ValkyrieCLI and ValkyrieTimeSynch.