VSPerf
This White Paper explains how Xena is working with the Open Platform for NFV (OPNFV) community on the vSwitch Performance (VSPerf) project towards a generic architecture-agnostic vSwitch performance benchmarking and test framework.
All of Xena’s products can be used for performance (or benchmark) testing. This typically includes measuring:
- the volume of data successfully delivered between two points, usually measured in bits or packets per second
- how long it takes data packets to travel between two points in a network or a device, also known as latency
- variations in latency – also known as jitter – due to network congestion or other factors
- how many data packets fail to reach their destination
- if data packets are delivered in a different order from that in which they were sent
Testing can be done with different frame sizes to check how this affects performance. Similarly, the DUT can be loaded beyond its throughput capacity to see how this affects frame loss, latency and jitter.
SERVICE PROVIDER
In the highly competitive Service Provider market, success is built on reliably giving users a first-class experience on the latest services for the lowest possible cost.
GPON TESTING
The R&D department of a major NEM in China was developing new GPON ONU access solutions for transportation. To validate the performance of the new products, they needed to generate stateless Ethernet traffic at 100GE, as well as 25GE and 50GE. Two key requirements were that the test equipment should be portable and provide two 100GE ports.
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Testing VNF
This White Paper demonstrates how the goals listed above can be achieved using Xena’s stateless traffic generator on configurations orchestrated by CNLabs NFV Test Framework. The open source firewall pfSense is used as the Virtual Network Function.
Application Emulation
Testing with realistic network traffic places the device under test (DUT) in a realistic network environment and delivers authentic results.
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