Production Testing

Test. Improve. Repeat.

Production line testing involves checking the quality of products as they leave the assembly line to identify any problems before they reach the customer. This improves customer satisfaction and helps minimize service & repair costs.

Conducted in industrial environments quite different from R&D labs, production line testing is frequently performed by unskilled assembly line workers. As a result, production line test equipment needs to be both robust and very easy to use.

For Ethernet products, there are a number of relevant types of testing that require an Ethernet traffic generation and analysis solution.

Router test:
Bi-directional traffic generation between WAN and LAN ports, could be multiple LAN ports to single WAN port, or one WAN port to multiple LAN ports. Test of throughput and failures. The test may be configured with values for packet size, bandwidth, packet loss and other stream parameters. The result of the test is a pass/fail message. In the case of fail details about the failure for later analysis.

Two-way interaction test:
Generate traffic between all ports, or between odd and even ports, or one direction traffic generation, with or without VLAN tagged frames. The result of the test is a pass/fail message and in the case of fail details about the failure for later analysis.

Loopback test:
This involves sending data packets from a switch port and looping them back to the same port to verify the switch’s ability to correctly receive and forward traffic on that specific port. The test may be configured with values for packet size, bandwidth, packet loss and other stream parameters. The result of the test is a pass/fail message and in the case of fail details about the failure for later analysis.

PON aggregation test:
Traffic is transmitted one-to-many and packets are sent both up and downlink. The test may be configured with values for packet size, bandwidth, packet loss and other stream parameters. The result of the test is a pass/fail message and in the case of fail details about the failure for later analysis.

Xena is Xena’s solution for testing devices that use Ethernet traffic before they leave the factory. Xena can test all Ethernet speeds up to 800GE and is available both in a high-port density 4U chassis or a compact 1U chassis.

XenaManager and XOA is a powerful yet very easy-to-operate software tools that easily setup and run the test.

Xena’s test solutions for Production Testing

Broad range of test modules

Xena offers a selection of test modules for testing all Ethernet speeds from 10Mbps to 800Gbps.

Our range includes the latest Ethernet technology with 112G-based SerDes and PAM-4 in our Z800 Freya product line. For testing and debugging AN/LT protocols we offer our dedicated Z800 Freya Compact ANLT Test Appliance.

Easy-to-use software

Xena’s test solutions include feature-rich software for generating Ethernet traffic and analyzing the result. The primary tool is XenaManager.

There are also test suites for running standard tests such as RFC2544, RFC2889, RFC3918 and Y.1564, and specialized AN/LT tests along with a comprehensive range of powerful scripting and test automation options such as Xena OpenAutomation (XOA), an open-source test automation framework featuring a Python API that runs on any OS.

Robust chassis choices

Choose between the robust scalable 4U XenaBay with space for up to 12 test modules, or the small, easy-to-transport 1U XenaCompact with just one test module.

Exceptional value

All our solutions include the Xena Value Pack which consists of 3 years’ SW updates, 3 years’ HW warranty, free online/email support for the lifetime of the product and free product training.

Together with our low port-pricing, this represents significant savings on the TCO of your Ethernet traffic generation and analysis solutions.

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CASE STORY

QA TESTING PON DEVICES

A major equipment manufacturer in China’s digital information and TV industry needed a production line test solution for Quality Assurance (QA) of 1GE PON devices. The solution needed to support long tests – up to 72 hours – as well as production tests taking just 10 seconds. Having experienced reliability issues with their previous solution, the manufacturer needed a production line tester that generated consistently accurate results.