Z800q Freya

8-speed 800Gbps (10/28/56/112G SerDes) dual-media test module

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The Z800q Freya Ethernet traffic generator can test 800GE, 400GE, 200GE, 100GE and 50GE using 112G/56G SerDes PAM4 and 100GE, 50GE, 40GE, 25GE and 10GE using 28G/10G SerDes NRZ.

A versatile solution for performance and functional testing of Ethernet network infrastructure and equipment including switches, routers and NICs, the Z800q Freya can test up to 800GE using 112G SerDes (PAM4 112G) and is designed for helping achieve the best possible signal integrity and Bit Error Rate performance.

The Z800q offers extensive L1 test features for advanced PCS and PMA layer testing including dynamic transceiver clock sweep, lane skewing and PRBS modes. Signals can be analyzed in advanced signal integrity view, which provides visual information on the quality of the signal.

The Z800q Freya test module also supports Auto-Negotiation and Link Training (AN/LT) on 112G SerDes and 56G SerDes PAM4.

Z800q Freya modules can be installed in the modular XenaBay B2400 chassis (where they require 2 slots), or in the fixed XenaCompact chassis, making it the most compact and lightweight 800G Ethernet test solution in the market.

XenaManager is included, giving users access to an intuitive user-friendly multi-user management software where they can generate and analyze traffic. Xena OpenAutomation (XOA) enables customers to make the most of Xena testers with tailored tests as well as standardized test methodologies, to achieve accelerated release cycles, enhanced test reliability, and boosted customer satisfaction.

Ethernet Auto-Negotiation & Link Training Test Tools
The AN/LT Utility provides insight, visibility, and configuration possibilities to the AN and LT process making it easy to analyze DUT behavior during AN/LT, configure and optimize the relevant AN parameters and LT coefficients.

Top Features

  • 8-speeds: 800GE, 400GE, 200GE, 100GE, 50GE, 40GE, 25GE & 10GE
  • Dual media: QSFP-DD800 & QSFP112
  • Supports 112G SerDes (PAM4), 56G SerDes (PAM4) & 28/10G SerDes (NRZ)
  • Test with optics; Active cables and DAC’s
  • Auto-Negotiation & Link Training (AN/LT)
  • Advanced Signal Integrity View
  • Price/performance
  • Ease of use

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Specifications

INTERFACES AND STANDARDS

  1. Interface category

    QSFP-DD800 : 800G, 400G, 200G, 100G, 50G, 40G, 25G & 10G Ethernet
    QSFP112 : 400G, 200G, 100G, 50G, 40G, 25G & 10G Ethernet

  2. Interface options

    QSFP-DD800 cage:
    112G SerDes Line Code IEEE/ETC*
    1 x 800GE     PAM4    IEEE 802.3df or ETC* 800G R1.1
    2** x 400GE PAM4    802.3ck
    4** x 200GE PAM4    802.3ck
    8** x 100GE PAM4    802.3ck

    56G Serdes
    1 x 400GE     PAM4  IEEE 802.3bs or ETC* 400G
    2** x 200GE  PAM4    802.3cd
    4** x 100GE  PAM4    802.3cd
    8** x 50GE    PAM4    802.3cd

    25G/10G Serdes
    2** x 100GE NRZ    802.3ba
    4** x 50GE   NRZ    ETC* 25G/50G R2.0
    2** x 40GE   NRZ    802.3ba
    8** x 25GE   NRZ    IEEE 802.3by or ETC* 25G/50G R2.0
    8** x 10GE   NRZ    802.3ae
    Power capacity using single cage:
    OSFP or QSFP-DD800: 25W or QSFP112: 15W

    Power capacity using both cages:
    QSFP-DD800: 15W + QSFP112: 15W

    * ETC = Ethernet Technology Consortium
    ** QSFP-DD module offers the option to provide connectivity in both 2 cages. If any of those modes is selected, the same interface configuration will be on all ports,- furthermore the ports will be shared across the 2 cages.
    For instance if the QSFP112 mode with 8 x 100G is chosen, 4 ports will be
    available in QSFP-DD cage and 4 ports will be available in the QSFP112 cage.

LAYER 1 FEATURES

  1. Payload Test pattern

    PRBS-13Q, PRBS-31Q, SSPRQ test pattern (IEEE 802.3 Clause 120.5.11.2.3) and Square Wave (IEEE 802.3 Clause 120.5.11.2.4).

  2. Physical Coding Sublayer

    PCS virtual lane-to-SerDes mapping configuration

  3. Forward error Correction

    BASE-R FEC (Firecode) (2112,2080), IEEE 802.3 Clause 74 (25GE, 10GE)
    RS-FEC KR (528, 514, t=7), IEEE 802.3 Clause 91 (100GE)
    RS-FEC KR (528, 514, t=7), IEEE 802.3 Clause 108 (25GE)
    RS-FEC KR (528, 514, t=7), 25/50G Ethernet Consortium (25/50GE)
    RS-FEC KP (544,514,t=15), IEEE802.3 Clause 119
    RS-FEC KP (544,514,t=15), IEEE802.3 Clause 134
    RS-FEC Int KP (544,514,t=15), IEEE802.3 Clause 161 (100G)

  4. FEC Error Injection

    RS-FEC KP (544, 514, T=15) (excluding RS-FEC Int KP)
    RS-FEC KR (528, 514, T=7)
    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. 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 from DUT

  6. PMA Error Injection

    Repeatable error injection periods at PMA layer with millisecond precision.

  7. Link Flap

    Single shot or repeatable link-down with millisecond precision.

  8. Equalization Controls

    Tx Equalization Control
    Rx Equalization Control: CTLE, AGC Adapt, OC Adapt, DFE Tap, CDR, Pre
    FFEs, and Post FFEs
    Support value freezing and auto on Rx equalizations

  9. Signal Integrity Analysis

    Advanced Signal Integrity View for modulated signal quality analysis

  10. PPM Sweep

    Configurable
    linear or step sweep +/- 400 ppm in steps of 1ppm (shared across all ports on
    module)

  11. Auto Negotiation and Link Training

    Auto-negotiation: IEEE 802.3 Clause 73, ETC 400G/800G & ETC 25G/50G
    Link training: IEEE 802.3 Clause 72, 136 and 161

  12. Advanced Auto Negotiation and Link Training analysis

    Capture, Decode and analysis of Auto Negotiation and Link Training protocol

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

Transmit line clock adjustment

  1. Equalization Controls

    From -400 to 400 ppm in steps of 1 ppm (shared across all ports on module)

  2. Oscillator Characteristics

    Initial Accuracy is +/- 1,5 ppm including temperature Stability.
    Frequency drift over 1st year: +/- 2.5 ppm including temperature Stability.
    Frequency drift over over 20 years: +/- 3.5 ppm including temperature Stability.
    Temperature Stability mentioned above is +/- 0.5 ppm

  3. 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

  4. 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-RX: Packet goes directly to RX (No link sync needed)
    Port-to-Port: Any received packet goes out through the neighbor port

  5. 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.

  6. Stream Profile

    Packet Length: Fixed; Incrementing, Random, Butterfly. Minumum 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

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

TRANSMIT ENGINES, CONT.

  1. 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

  2. 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

  3. ARP/NDP/Ping

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

  4. LLDP

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

  5. 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

  6. 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 of 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
    (Latency measurements can be calibrated to remove latency from transceiver
    modules)
    Measurement modes: Last-to-last, last-to-first, first-to-last, first-to-first

  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 (Counter size: 64 bits)

    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 Mbits/s): 4096 packets (any size)
    Packet header auto decode

  8. Traffic Receive Capability

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

  9. 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

  10. Latency Measurement

    Accuracy: ±16 ns
    Resolution: 1 ns
    (Latency measurements can be calibrated and remove latency from transceiver
    modules)
    Measurement modes: Last-to-last, last-to-first, first-to-last, first-to-first

  11. Jitter Measurement

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

  12. 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

  13. Filter statistics (Counter size: 64 bits)

    Per filter:
    RX Mbit/s
    packets/s
    packets
    bytes

  14. 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 Mbits/s): 4096 packets (any size)
    Packet header auto decode

SPECIFICATION

  1. Weight

    2.32 lbs (1.05 kg)

  2. Environmental

    Operating Temperature: 10 to 35º C
    Storage Temperature: -40 to 70º C
    Humidity: 8% to 90% non-condensing

  3. Regulatory

    FCC (US)
    CE (Europe)

  4. Connector insertions

    Xena uses high-quality 112Gbps-capable electrical connectors on Z800 Freya
    modules for optimal signal integrity and performance. However, all connectors
    experience wear when inserted, resulting in decreased signal integrity over time. The
    specification below is the minimum number of insertions where optimal signal
    integrity is guaranteed:
    Connectors, minimum number of guaranteed insertions: 1000 cycles

  5. Notes

    The Z800q and Z8000 Freya occupies 2 slot in a B2400 chassis. Up to 6 pcs. of
    Z800q and/or Z800o Freya can be installed in a single B2400 chassis. Please
    refer to module install guide line for additional info.
    The Z800q and Z800o Freya modules are also available in the standalone
    Compact chassis (P/N Z800qc Freya or Z800oc Freya)

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