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Xena Videos
Ethernet traffic generation up to 800Gbps
Artificial Intelligence – AI – has been around for a long time but AI has seen a tremendous growth in popularity during the past year.
This massive increase in the number of users and Large Language Models are driving data center owners to rethink their network infrastructure and optimize it for AI work loads.
In this video, we’ll dive into some of the challenges and solutions you are likely to encounter when optimizing an AI infrastructure. Also, we’ll describe how to most cost and time efficiently test the performance of your solutions.
5 min 28 secs
Show you how to use XenaManager 3 to do Auto Negotiation & Link Training testing when using our Z800 Freya test modules to generate 112Gig PAM4 SerDes traffic.
If you want to try this yourself, you can download XenaManager3 from the Teledyne LeCroy website and use it connect to the Z800 Freya traffic generators in our live demo system. If you are familiar with the “old” XenaManager, you’ll quickly see why XM3 is a big step forward.
8 min 54 secs
Watch this video to understand the basics of the Xena Ethernet Test Platform and the different modules if offers for testing the performance and functionality of Ethernet products and services at all speeds up to 800Gbps.
2 min 42 secs
How LinkExpert can be used to manage the Z800 Freya traffic generators and SierraNet M1288 protocol analyzers for testing e.g. auto-negotiation and link training (AN/LT).
5 min 27 secs
Did you know you can perform extensive Layer 1, 2, and 3 testing using the same Xena equipment?
For high-speed Ethernet (100G and beyond) based on 56G/112G PAM-4 SerDes, it’s crucial to ensure the physical Layer 1 is functioning before diving into L2/L3 traffic tests.
With XenaManager and our Z800 Freya traffic generators, you can seamlessly conduct thorough L1 tests and all the L2/L3 traffic load tests you need.
Watch our avatar Hermod explain some of the advanced L1 testing features in this video!
5 min 53 secs
Xena Ethernet Test Modules are versatile NICs used for network testing and validation. Check system requirements and prerequisites before installation.
If you encounter any issues during installation, feel free to ask for assistance in the comments section.
3 min 45 secs
Finite Impulse Response (FIR) filters are an essential component in high speed data communication systems.
Learn how a FIR filter works, and how the tap setting influence the signal integrity in this short video.
1 min 19 secs
At Xena, we believe that if you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it well enough. So here’s a short video from Xena explaining how the two Ethernet modulation techniques – NRZ & PAM4 – work and the different between them.
1 min 47 secs
Link Training is a critical part of optimizing the performance of devices running 56G & 112G SerDes Ethernet.
This 90 second video shows how it works and illustrates why its such a key feature of our Freya 112G SerDes test solutions!
1 min 28 secs
Testing at 112G speed is challenging and requires focus especially on Layer 1-3. In this video we show how to perform 112G SerDes Auto Negotiation & Link training using a Freya traffic generator.
The demo is performed with a mix of internal Xena scripts and XenaManager.
Our demo setup is a Xena Freya module in a Xena chassis connected via a ½ meter electric cable to another 112G SerDes Device Under Test (DUT).
5 min 38 secs
In this video we connect to Xena’s live demo system and quickly configure and run a RFC2544 test using Xena2544, which is a free app bundled together with XenaManager.
You can try this yourself right now using Xena’s live demo system.
2 min. 35 secs
This video shows how to import a port configuration file (saved as a .txt file) to instantly create several streams of traffic so you can explore Xena’s comprehensive feature set.
You can try this yourself right now using Xena’s live demo system.
3 min. 34 secs
Watch how quick and easy it is to view PAM4 400GE FEC errors using XenaManager on Xena’s “live demo” system.
You can try this yourself right now using Xena’s live demo system.
1 min. 51 secs
Chimera Videos
See how easy Ethernet network emulation can be
The ORAN standards recommend using a network impairment emulator to help simulate real-world traffic to test interoperability and performance.
This video shows how quick and easy this can be done using Chimera. First we add 20 microseconds latency to Ethernet traffic between 2 devices using XenaManager.
We then repeat the test using Xena OpenAutomation (XOA), Xena’s open-source test automation platform. XOA features a Python API that makes it simple to integrate Chimera into any existing test automation framework.
5 min. 24 secs
This Chimera video covers:
1. Downloading & installing the Chimera software
2. Connecting to Xena’s live demo system
3. Configuring the Chimera & Loki test modules,
4. Creating traffic streams and mapping the streams to flows, and
5. Adding impairments to the individual flows.
You can try this yourself right now.
7 min. 54 secs
This video shows you how to add:
– Constant latency
– Step function
– Uniform jitter
– Gaussian jitter
8 min. 30 secs
Shows you how to use Chimera to limit the bandwidth of Ethernet packet flows passing through a device, using the policers and shapers of the impairment pipeline.
8 min. 31 secs
Shows how Chimera flow filters are used to map incoming packets to up to 8 different flows per port. Each flow can then be independently impaired.
11 min. 20 secs
XOA Videos
Examples of how to use Xena OpenAutomation
This video shows how to test 112G SerDes Auto Negotiation & Link Training using XenaManager and then Xena OpenAutomation (XOA).
Our demo setup is a Xena Freya module in a Xena chassis connected via a ½ meter electric cable to another 112G SerDes Device Under Test.
5 min 38 secs
This video shows how Chimera can be used to add 20 microseconds latency to Ethernet traffic between 2 devices – first with XenaManager and then Xena OpenAutomation (XOA).
5 min. 24 secs