100GE Test Modules Valkyrie - Xena Networks

Xena Networks Valkyrie 100GE Test Modules

100GE has matured into a standardized and well-documented technology widely deployed for high speed data communication in e.g. core networks and for Data Center Interconnect. Xena Networks demonstrated its first solution for 100GE in January 2011, and today we offer these advanced test & measurement modules:

Loki-100G-5S-2P	Loki-100G-5S-1P	Thor-100G-5S-4P	Loki-100G-3S-1P	Loki-100G-3S-1P-B
(# of Ports / Speed) 2 x 100GE ports 4 x 50GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 25GE ports 8 x 10GE ports	(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 50GE ports 1 x 40GE ports 4 x 25GE ports 4 x 10GE ports	(# of Ports / Speed) 4 x 100GE ports 8 x 50GE ports 1 x 40GE ports 4 x 25GE ports 4 x 10GE ports	(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 10GE ports	(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 10GE ports
This 2-port 100GE test module can also test 50GE, 40GE, 25GE and 10GE delivering great value for money.	A 5-speed test module with a single QSFP28/QSFP+ transceiver cage, and two SFP28/SFP+ transceiver cages.	A 5-speed dual media test module with the unique capability of being able to test both PAM4 and NRZ speeds.	A 3-speed test module that supports 2 transceiver form-factors: QSFP28 and QSFP+ or CXP.	A 3-speed test module that supports 3 transceiver form-factors – CFP4, QSFP28 or QSFP+, and CXP.

Unique 100GE Features

Unique Eye Diagram

Every 100GE test modules includes a unique feature for analyzing signal quality called the “eye diagram”. When using the QSFP28 ports, an additional panel called “Advanced PHY Features“ will appear in the main Resource Properties tab of XenaManager-2G. This panel controls and monitors the four receive SerDes associated with the 4x10G or 4x25G link at the physical level. It also creates bit-error-rate (BER) eye diagrams, estimates the link BER from the vertical and horizontal BER bathtub curves and controls the PHY tuning in the transmit and the receive directions.

How it works: The BER eye-diagram provides a direct visual representation of the signal quality after RX equalization. The eye-diagram is formed by changing the time dimension (sampling delay) and the amplitude dimension (0/1 threshold) of the sampling point of the PHY step-by-step. For each sampling point (x,y), 1 million bits are measured, the number of bit-errors are counted and a simple division gives the BER. The result is the BER eye-diagram (see below). The color map shows the measured bit-error rate for each point going from 1 million (maximum red) to zero (black). The color scale is logarithmic. Higher resolutions give a clearer diagram and higher values of X and Y will also give a higher precision in the vertical and horizontal bathtub curve estimations, respectively.

What it shows: The eye-data table provides an estimate of several parameters of the eye, including width, height and jitter. Future releases will also include link BER estimates based on the horizontal and vertical bathtub curves.

100GE Eye Diagram Software

100GE Pricing

Xena’s Vakyrie test solutions are renowned for their price/performance – you get a lot of great features at a very affordable price. To help you evaluate our 100GE solutions we are happy to offer free online demo session where we walk you through all the software and answer any questions you might have regarding your specific test scenario. If you already know what you need, we can also arrange for a quick quote. Part of our value proposition is that we include all software and 3 years’ of upgrades free of charge with every L2-3 solution. We also offer free technical support for the lifetime of the product and a year’s free hardware warranty.

Loki-100G-5S-2P	Loki-100G-5S-1P
(# of Ports / Speed) 2 x 100GE ports 4 x 50GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 25GE ports 8 x 10GE ports	(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 50GE ports 1 x 40GE ports 4 x 25GE ports 4 x 10GE ports
This 2-port 100GE test module can also test 50GE, 40GE, 25GE and 10GE delivering great value for money.	A 5-speed test module with a single QSFP28/QSFP+ transceiver cage, and two SFP28/SFP+ transceiver cages.
Loki-100G-3S-1P-B	Loki-100G-3S-1P
(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 10GE ports	(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 10GE ports
A 3-speed test module that supports 3 transceiver form-factors – CFP4, QSFP28 or QSFP+, and CXP.	A 3-speed test module that supports 2 transceiver form-factors: QSFP28 and QSFP+ or CXP.
Thor-100G-5S-4P
(# of Ports / Speed) 4 x 100GE ports 8 x 50GE ports 1 x 40GE ports 4 x 25GE ports 4 x 10GE ports
A 5-speed dual media test module with the unique capability of being able to test both PAM4 and NRZ speeds.

Unique 100GE Features

Unique Eye Diagram

Every 100GE test modules includes a unique feature for analyzing signal quality called the “eye diagram”. When using the QSFP28 ports, an additional panel called “Advanced PHY Features“ will appear in the main Resource Properties tab of XenaManager-2G. This panel controls and monitors the four receive SerDes associated with the 4x10G or 4x25G link at the physical level. It also creates bit-error-rate (BER) eye diagrams, estimates the link BER from the vertical and horizontal BER bathtub curves and controls the PHY tuning in the transmit and the receive directions.

How it works: The BER eye-diagram provides a direct visual representation of the signal quality after RX equalization. The eye-diagram is formed by changing the time dimension (sampling delay) and the amplitude dimension (0/1 threshold) of the sampling point of the PHY step-by-step. For each sampling point (x,y), 1 million bits are measured, the number of bit-errors are counted and a simple division gives the BER. The result is the BER eye-diagram (see below). The color map shows the measured bit-error rate for each point going from 1 million (maximum red) to zero (black). The color scale is logarithmic. Higher resolutions give a clearer diagram and higher values of X and Y will also give a higher precision in the vertical and horizontal bathtub curve estimations, respectively.

What it shows: The eye-data table provides an estimate of several parameters of the eye, including width, height and jitter. Future releases will also include link BER estimates based on the horizontal and vertical bathtub curves.

100GE Eye Diagram Software

100GE Pricing

Xena’s Vakyrie test solutions are renowned for their price/performance – you get a lot of great features at a very affordable price. To help you evaluate our 100GE solutions we are happy to offer free online demo session where we walk you through all the software and answer any questions you might have regarding your specific test scenario. If you already know what you need, we can also arrange for a quick quote. Part of our value proposition is that we include all software and 3 years’ of upgrades free of charge with every L2-3 solution. We also offer free technical support for the lifetime of the product and a year’s free hardware warranty.

Loki-100G-5S-2P
(# of Ports / Speed) 2 x 100GE ports 4 x 50GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 25GE ports 8 x 10GE ports
This 2-port 100GE test module can also test 50GE, 40GE, 25GE and 10GE delivering great value for money.
Loki-100G-5S-1P
(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 50GE ports 1 x 40GE ports 4 x 25GE ports 4 x 10GE ports
A 5-speed test module with a single QSFP28/QSFP+ transceiver cage, and two SFP28/SFP+ transceiver cages.
Thor-100G-5S-4P
(# of Ports / Speed) 4 x 100GE ports 8 x 50GE ports 1 x 40GE ports 4 x 25GE ports 4 x 10GE ports
A 5-speed dual media test module with the unique capability of being able to test both PAM4 and NRZ speeds.
Loki-100G-3S-1P-B
(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 10GE ports
A 3-speed test module that supports 3 transceiver form-factors – CFP4, QSFP28 or QSFP+, and CXP.
Loki-100G-3S-1P
(# of Ports / Speed) 1 x 100GE ports 2 x 40GE ports 8 x 10GE ports
A 3-speed test module that supports 2 transceiver form-factors: QSFP28 and QSFP+ or CXP.

Unique 100GE Features

Unique Eye Diagram

Every 100GE test modules includes a unique feature for analyzing signal quality called the “eye diagram”. When using the QSFP28 ports, an additional panel called “Advanced PHY Features“ will appear in the main Resource Properties tab of XenaManager-2G. This panel controls and monitors the four receive SerDes associated with the 4x10G or 4x25G link at the physical level. It also creates bit-error-rate (BER) eye diagrams, estimates the link BER from the vertical and horizontal BER bathtub curves and controls the PHY tuning in the transmit and the receive directions.

How it works: The BER eye-diagram provides a direct visual representation of the signal quality after RX equalization. The eye-diagram is formed by changing the time dimension (sampling delay) and the amplitude dimension (0/1 threshold) of the sampling point of the PHY step-by-step. For each sampling point (x,y), 1 million bits are measured, the number of bit-errors are counted and a simple division gives the BER. The result is the BER eye-diagram (see below). The color map shows the measured bit-error rate for each point going from 1 million (maximum red) to zero (black). The color scale is logarithmic. Higher resolutions give a clearer diagram and higher values of X and Y will also give a higher precision in the vertical and horizontal bathtub curve estimations, respectively.

What it shows: The eye-data table provides an estimate of several parameters of the eye, including width, height and jitter. Future releases will also include link BER estimates based on the horizontal and vertical bathtub curves.

100GE Eye Diagram Software

100GE Pricing

Xena’s Vakyrie test solutions are renowned for their price/performance – you get a lot of great features at a very affordable price. To help you evaluate our 100GE solutions we are happy to offer free online demo session where we walk you through all the software and answer any questions you might have regarding your specific test scenario. If you already know what you need, we can also arrange for a quick quote. Part of our value proposition is that we include all software and 3 years’ of upgrades free of charge with every L2-3 solution. We also offer free technical support for the lifetime of the product and a year’s free hardware warranty.

Xena offers a choice of two chassis 1U and 4U that can be equipped with an extensive range of copper and optical Gigabit Ethernet test modules supporting all Ethernet speeds 1GE, 2.5GE, 5GE, 10GE, 25GE, 40GE, 50GE, 100GE, 200GE and 400GE.

The chassis and test modules are controlled via Xena’s ValkyrieManager, a Windows GUI client provided for ad-hoc test execution, and remote management of test equipment located in multiple locations. Also included are standalone applications for automated RFC 2544, Y.1564, RFC 2889 and RFC 3918 testing.

Finally, an open TCP/IP-based text API lets users automate testing from any software environment, using Tcl, Python, Perl, VBA and Java wrappers to convert to/from the generic Xena Command Line Interface (CLI) format.

The Xena Networks test equipment can handle the widest range of lab-based test scenarios – performance testing, functional testing, QoS and so on – with a minimum of fuss.

Pricing is considerably lower than the industry leaders – especially when you factor in our policy of including 3 years’ free software upgrades and HW warranty, plus free training and tech support

Xena is repeatedly praised for being user-friendly. The hardware is easy to install and configure, and the intuitive software really does make life simpler for test engineers

Valkyrie reflects its Scandinavian roots – a quality product loaded with smart “no-fuss” features that delivers great value, from a company that sincerely cares about customer satisfaction.