Z1608 Edun

Generate up to 1.6Tbps using 224G SerDes and up to 800Gbps using 112G SerDes

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The Z1608 Edun is one of the world’s first Ethernet traffic generators capable of testing both 112G and 224G PAM4 SerDes.

Equipped with a high-speed OSFP-1600 interface the Z1608 can be used with both optical cables, as well as active and passive cables.

The Z1608 Edun is a 1U chassis solution making it the most compact 112G & 224G tester on the market and quiet and lightweight enough for desktop use.

Multiple chassis can be daisy-chained together for multi-port setup, enabling optimal PPM control and latency measurements. The chassis stack is managed seamlessly with XM3 and XOA.

Suitable for testing next-gen chips, Ethernet switches, routers, NICs, transceivers & cables, the Z1608 Edun helps developers optimize signal integrity and Bit Error Rate (BER) performance.

Providing the same UI and features as the existing Xena solutions (e.g. Z800 Freya), the Z1608 Edun boasts an extensive list of valuable features and functions for both advanced Layer 1 & Layer 2 testing. The Physical Layer 1 features include insights into advanced PCS and PMA layer testing including dynamic transceiver clock sweep, lane skewing and PRBS pattern generation and statistics.

Z1608 Edun also provides an advanced Signal Integrity View (SIV) feature to provide visual information on signal quality. The Layer 1 features can be combined with an enhanced Traffic Generator with advanced multi-stream support and functionalities such as latency and jitter statistics, modifiers, custom data fields and many other features.

Advanced test software

Managing the Z1608 Edun is done via XenaManager, the intuitive multi-user management software for generating and analyzing traffic on all Teledyne LeCroy Xena modules.

Renowned for its ease-of-use, XenaManager makes it quick and easy to do performance, QA, functional and benchmark testing.

Xena OpenAutomation (XOA) – our open-source scripting and automation framework – is also included to help automate any available command to the system, with tailored tests, scripting and standardized test methodologies.

Plus there are standalone applications for testing RFC2544, RFC2889, RFC3918 and Y.1564.

 

Transceiver Management Interface

Z1608 Edun provides full control over the complete management interface of the OSFP module inserted into the Z1608 Edun. All digital electrical signals of the OSFP connector are accessible, including the I²C management interface as well as reset, module present and select, low-power mode, and interrupt. The Z1608 Edun can also adjust the 3.3 V power supply voltage level by ±10% for the OSFP module and measure its power consumption.

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Specifications

INTERFACES AND STANDARDS

  1. Number of module cages/connectors

    1 x OSFP-1600

  2. Interface options

    224G SerDes – Line Code / IEEE/ETC*

    • 1 x 1.6TE – PAM4 / 802.3dj
    • 1 x 800GE – PAM4 / 802.3dj
    • 2 x 400GE – PAM4 / 802.3dj
    • 4 x 200GE – PAM4 / 802.3dj

    112G SerDes  – Line Code / IEEE/ETC*

    • 1 x 800GE – PAM4 / 802.3df (D2.0) / ETC
    • 2 x 400GE – 802.3ck 
    • 4 x 200GE – 802.3dj / 802.3ck
    • 8 x 100GE – 802.3ck

    Power in cage: 32/42W (with additional cooling)

    Clause 176 BASE-R and Clause 179 BASE-CR

    * ETC = Ethernet Technology Consortium

  3. I2C RX/TX Transceiver Access Speed

    Maximum of 1MHz (actual speed depends on the transceiver module)

  4. Clock Input/Output

    2.048MHz, 10.000MHz, 156.25MHz & 625MHz clock input and output to external equipment via 2.4 mm SMA connector, useful for scope jitter measurements etc.

LAYER 1 FEATURES

  1. Pattern Generation

    • PRBS-7, PRBS-9, PRBS-10, PRBS-11, PRBS-13, PRBS-15, PRBS-20, PRBS-23, PRBS-31, PRBS-49, PRBS-58
    • SSPRQ test pattern (IEEE 802.3 Clause 120.5.11.2.3)
    • Square Wave (IEEE 802.3 Clause 120.5.11.2.4) 
    • Statistics: Lock status, PRBS errors, PRBS error rate

  2. Physical Coding Sublayer

    PCS virtual lane-to-SerDes mapping configuration

  3. Forward Error Correction (FEC)

    RS-FEC KP (544, 514, t=15), IEEE 802.3 Clause 76

  4. FEC Error Injection

    • RS-FEC KP (544, 514, t=15), IEEE 802.3 Clause 76
    • Configuration: Consecutive, Errored Codewords, Total Codewords Per Cycle, Errored Symbols Per Codeword
    • Bit error mask modes: Static, Rotate, Increment
    • Pre-defined profiles: Max. Consecutive Uncorrectable w/o Link Loss, Min. Consecutive Uncorrectable with Link Loss
    • Loop modes: Single, Continuous, Repeat       
    • Injection statistics: Injected FEC Errors; Total Codewords, Total Uncorrectable Codewords, Total Correctable Codewords, Total Error-Free Codewords, Codeword Error Ratio, and Total Symbol Errors

  5. Physical Medium Attachment Layer

    • SM-PMA Symbol multiplexing (Clause 176)
    • BM-PMA Bit multiplexing (Clause 120)

  6. Reconciliation Sublayer (Local/Remote Fault feature)

    • Normal: Acts according to 802.3 standard
    • Force Local: Port will continuously transmit “Local Fault indication”.
    • Force Remote: Port will continuously transmit “Remote Fault indication” .
    • Disabled: Port does not respond to Local/Remote Fault regardless of what it receives on RX.

  7. PMA Error Injection

    Repeatable error injection periods at PMA layer with millisecond precision.

  8. Link Flap

    Single shot or repeatable link-down with millisecond precision.

  9. Equalization Controls

    • Tx Equalization Control

  10. Signal Integrity Analysis

    Advanced Signal Integrity View for PAM4 modulated signal quality analysis

  11. PPM Sweep

    • Configurable
    • linear or step sweep +/- 100 ppm

TRANSMIT ENGINES

  1. Traffic Generation

    • Wire-speed multi-stream traffic generation
    • Up to 256 hardware streams per port
    • Each stream can generate millions of traffic flows using field modifier

  2. Transmit line clock adjustment

    From -100 to 100 ppm in steps of 1 ppm (shared across all ports)

  3. Oscillator Characteristics

    • Initial Accuracy is +/- 1 ppm
    • Frequency drift over 1st year: +/- 2 ppm in total (over 20 years: +/- 3 ppm in total)
    • Temperature Stability: +/- 0,5 ppm

  4. Transmit Control

    • Support adjustment of the effective line rate by forcing idle gaps equivalent to -1000 ppm (increments of 10 ppm)
    • Configurable Inter-Frame Gap (IFG) from 16 to 63 bytes, default is 20B (12B IFG + 8B preamble)
    • Support optical laser or copper link enable/disable

  5. Loopback Modes

    • L1 RX-to-TX: Any received packet is bounced back through TX
    • TX(on)-to-RX: Packet goes out of TX but also internally direct to RX   
    • TX(off)-to-TX: Packet goes directly to RX (No link sync needed)      
    • Port-to-Port: Any received packet goes out through the neighbor port

  6. Port Transmit Scheduling Modes

    • Normal (stream interleaved mode): Default scheduling mode, precise rates, minor variation in packet inter-frame gap.
    • Uniform: With 100% uniform packet inter-frame gap, minor deviation from configured rates is available. 
    • Sequential:  Streams are scheduled continuously in sequential order, with configurable number of packets per stream.
    • Burst: Packets in a stream are organized in bursts. Bursts from active streams form a burst group is available. The user specifies time from start of one burst group till start of next burst group.

  7. Stream Profile

    • Packet Length: Fixed; Incrementing, Random, Butterfly. Minimum 56 bytes, maximum 16K bytes.
    • Packet Payload: Incrementing 8-bit, custom pattern (up to 18B repeated)
    • Burst Traffic with configurable Burst Size, and Burst Density
    • Flow Control: PFC support for both VLAN tagged and untagged traffic

  8. Stream Header Types

    Ethernet, VLAN, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, UDP, TCP, LLC, SNAP, GTP, ICMP, RTP, RTCP, STP, SCTP, MacCtrl, MPLS, PBB, FCoE, FC, IGMPv2, GRE, GTP, VxLAN, NVGRE, DHCPv4, Geneve, eCPRI, RoE, PWE, PFC, Custom.

  9. Stream Modifiers

    • Maximum 8 x 24-bit modifiers per stream
    • 24-bit header field modifiers with incremental, decremental, or random mode.
    • Each modifier has configurable bit-mask, repetition, min, max, and step parameters.

  10. Layer 2 Error Injection

    • Undersize (56 bytes min), and oversize (12288 bytes max.) packet lengths
    • FCS Error, Sequence Error, Misordering Error, Payload Integrity Error, Test Payload Error

  11. Multicast

    • Support for IPv4
    • Up to 8 multicast group addresses
    • IGMPv2: Join (with configurable repeat interval), Leave All-Devices, Leave, General Query, Group Query
    • IGMPv3: Exclude (with configurable repeat interval), Include, Change-to-Exclude, Change-to-Include, Multi-group record support

  12. ARP/NDP/Ping

    • Auto address resolution
    • Auto reply to request per port and per stream

  13. LLDP

    • Configurable LLDP operation mode, timers, and TLVs
    • Support mandatory and optional TLV types
    • Display received LLDP information

  14. Transmit Statistics

    • Per-stream: bits/s, bytes/s, packets/s, packets, bytes
    • Per-port: ARP, NDP, Ping, requests and replies
    • Per-port injected errors: FCS Error, Sequence Error, Misordering Error, Payload Integrity Error, Test Payload Error
    • Two real-time histograms per port: TX Packet Length, IFG, or latency distribution for all traffic, a specific stream, or a filter

  15. Packet scheduling modes

    • Normal (stream interleaved mode): standard scheduling mode, precise rates, minor variation in packet inter-frame gap.
    • Strict Uniform: with 100% uniform packet inter-frame gap, minor deviation from configured rates is available.
    • Sequential packet scheduling (sequential stream scheduling) is available. Streams are scheduled continuously in sequential order, with configurable number of packets per stream.
    • Burst packets in a stream are organized in bursts. Bursts from active streams form a burst group is available. The user specifies time from start of one burst group till start of next burst group.

RECEIVE ENGINE

  1. Traffic Receive Capability

    Number ff Traceable Rx Streams Per Port : 2016 (wire-speed)

  2. Receive Statistics

    • Per-stream: bits/s, bytes/s, packets/s, packets, bytes
    • Per-stream: Packet Loss, Misordered, Payload Errors
    • Per-stream: Latency and jitter with minimum, maximum and average
    • Per-port: ARP, NDP, Ping, with requests and replies
    • Per-port injected errors: FCS Error, Sequence Error, Misordering Error, Payload Integrity Error, Test Payload Error
    • Two real-time histograms per port: RX Packet Length, IFG, or latency distribution for all traffic, a specific stream, or a filter
    • Filter statistics: bits/s, bytes/s, packets/s, packets, bytes

  3. Latency Measurement

    • Latency can be measured on up to 256 streams
    • Accuracy: ±16 ns
    • Resolution: 1 ns
    • Measurement modes: Last-to-last, last-to-first, first-to-last, first-to-first

    Note: Latency measurements can get calibrated and remove latency from transceiver modules

  4. Jitter Measurement

    • Jitter can be measured on up to 256 streams
    • Jitter (Packet Delay Variation) measurements compliant to MEF10 standard with 1ns accuracy.

  5. Traffic Filter

    • 6 x 64-bit configurable match-term patterns with mask, and offset
    • 6 x frame length comparator terms (longer, shorter)
    • 6 x configurable filters expressed in logical expressions of the match and length terms

  6. Filter Statistics

    Per filter:

    • RX Mbit/s
    • packets/s
    • packets
    • bytes

  7. Capture

    • Start Trigger Criteria: FCS errors, filter match, payload error, manual
    • Stop Trigger Criteria: FCS errors, filter match, payload error, manual, buffer full
    • Capture Limit Per Packet: 16 – 16383 bytes
    • Wire-Speed Capture Buffer Per Port: 64 kB
    • Low Speed Capture Buffer Per Port (10 Mbps): 4096 packets (any size)
    • Packet header auto decode

PHYSICAL SPECIFICATIONS

  1. Physical Format

    • 1 rack unit (RU) high with 1 module slots
    • 1“ (H) x 19“ (W) x 15“(D) (4.8 x 48.26 x 37cm)
    • 19″ rack mount (EIA compatible)
    • Front to rear airflow

  2. Weight

    13.89 lbs (6.3 kg)

  3. Environmental

    • Operating Temperature: 10 to 30ºC
    • Storage Temperature: -40 to 70ºC
    • Humidity: 8% to 90% non-condensing

  4. Power

    • AC Voltage: 100-240V
    • Frequency: 50-60Hz
    • Max. Power: 600W

  5. Regulatory

    • FCC (US)
    • CE (Europe)

  6. User interface

    • Chassis power on/off
    • Management RJ45 Ethernet (100/1000M BASE-T)
    • Management interface address: IPv4 and IPv6, static or DHCP
    • XenaManager (XM), Xena OpenAutomation (XOA) and XOA CLI
    • Xena2544, Xena2889, Xena3918, Xena1564

  7. Transceiver Management Interface

    • Z1608 Edun provides full control over the management interface of the OSFP module inserted into the Z1608.
    • All digital electrical signals of the OSFP connector are accessible, including the I²C management interface as well as reset, module present and select, low-power mode, and interrupt.
    • The Z1608 can also adjust the 3.3 V power supply voltage level by ±10% for the OSFP module and measure its power consumption.

  8. Connector Insertions

    Z1608 Edun modules are provided with high-quality 224Gbps-capable electrical OSFP connectors for optimal signal integrity and performance. These OSFP connectors support a minimum of 1000 cycles (insertions) where optimal signal integrity is guaranteed.

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