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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 Ethernet Traffic Generation & Analysis (TGA) solution.
Odin can test 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
There are multiple versions of Odin (see table below). All are available in both Xena’s fixed 1U ValkyrieCompact chassis, and Xena’s modular 4U ValkyrieBay chassis. The C-Odin-10G-4S-2P-Combi is only available in the Compact 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, XOA, ValkyrieCLI and ValkyrieTimeSynch.
Odin: for Ethernet Testing NRZ up to 10G
| Odin-10G-6S-6P | Odin-10G-1S-6P | Odin-10G-4S-2P-Combi | Odin-10G-5S-6P-CU | Odin-1G-3S-6P | Odin-1G-3S-6P-E* | Odin-1G-3S-6P-T1-RJ45 | |
| Interfaces | 6 SFP+ | 6 SFP+ | 2 SFP+ 4 SFP | 6 RJ45 | 6 SFP | 6 SFP | 4 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 |
| ValkyrieCompact | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| ValkyrieBay | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
Try it now:
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