VeEX TX320s all-in-one optical and service test platform

The dual test port hardware option for the VeEX TX320s platform offers a full-featured portable test solution for OTN, SONET/SDH, PDH/DSn, Carrier Ethernet, fibre channel and CPRI/OBSAI networks, as well as synchronisation verification tests.

This factory-installed hardware option allows the addition of other applications, for example, OTDR, to be installed concurrently in the same test platform.

Module highlights include all-in-one multiservice test solution; dual SFP+ ports support Ethernet interface from 100Base-FX to 10GE, SDH from STM-0 to STM-64, SONET from OC-3 to OC-192, fibre channel from 1 G to 10 G, OTN at OTU1, OTU2, OTU1e/2e and CPRI/OBSAI; dual RJ45 ports support 10/100/1000Base-T; RJ45/Bantam and BNC ports support PDH/DSn and G.703 64k co-directional electrical interfaces; Port 1 and Port 2 support independent and simultaneous measurements; and bidirectional Ethernet pass-through monitor test mode.

Key features of the OTN/SDH/SONET/PDH/DSn include optical SDH/SONET testing for STM-0/1/4/16/64 and OC1/3/12/48/192; including STM-0/1e (STS-1/3) electrical; OTN testing for ODU0, ODU Flex, OTU1, OTU2, OTU1e/OTU2e; PDH/DSn testing at E1, E2, E3, E4, DS1, DS3; G.703 64k co-directional interface testing; non-intrusive pulse mask analysis at E1, E3 and DS1, DS3 rates; automatic protection switching and service disruption; round trip delay on all interfaces and payload mappings; bidirectional overhead monitoring and byte decoding; tandem connection monitoring; and Jitter and Wander analysis (E1, E3, DS1, DS3, STM-1o, OC-3).

Key features of the CPRI/OBSAI Testing include common public radio interface standard (CPRI): supports all rates from 614.4 Mbps to 9.8304 Gbps; open base station architecture initiative (OBSAI): supports all rates from 768 Mbps to 6.144 Gbps; unframed, Layer 1 framed and Layer 2 (REC/BBU and RE/RRH emulation) BER testing with PRBS stress patterns; latency measurements; and CPRI bidirectional monitoring mode.

Key features of the Ethernet/fibre channel include dual 10GE LAN/WAN, 1000Base-X, 100Base-FX supported by SFP+ ports; dual 10/100/1000Base-T supported by RJ45 ports; 1G/2G/4G/8G/10G fibre channel support for storage area networks; RFC2544 throughput, latency, frame loss and back to back tests; V-SAM test suite compliant with ITU-T Y.1564 standard; Q in Q (VLAN stacking), MPLS, MPLS-TP, PBB support; RFC6349 V-PERF TCP test suite; bidirectional in-service monitoring with Wireshark on-screen decode; one-way latency with optional built-in GPS; fully integrated solution for synchronised packet networks; supports IEEE 1588v2/PTP and SyncE/ITU-T G.8261 standards; master clock and slave clock emulation; IEEE 1588v2/PTP protocol monitoring and decoding; IEEE 1588v2/PTP PDV analysis; clock recovery from SyncE or PTP and output to physical port; wander measurement and MTIE/TDEV analysis; and ESMC SSM generation, monitoring and decoding.

Key features of the synchronisation testing include clock wander and phase (time error) measurements; MTIE/TDEV wander analysis; optional built-in chip-scale atomic clock; GPS receiver for disciplining and time alignment; and SyncE and IEEE 1588v2 PTP emulation and wander measurements.