Valkyrie3918

Valkyrie3918 is a free PC application installed together with ValkyrieManager that lets you do advanced IP multicast network testing, by helping you perform RFC3918 testing using one or more Xena test chassis.

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Core Features

Valkyrie3918 provides an easy-to-use port configuration panel that lets you add and remove ports, and assign IP addresses and port roles. Ports from multiple ValkyrieBay and ValkyrieCompact chassis can be freely mixed.

The tests can be performed using various framesizes, either as in-test variations or as multiple testruns each using a fixed frame size.

The multicast traffic can be configured to use the exact protocol headers needed. All fields in the protocol headers can be modified. The unicast traffic for mixed class and burdening tests can be specified separately in a similar fashion.

Valkyrie3918 Top Features:

Makes it easy to create, edit and execute all test-types specified in RFC 3918
Support for IPv4 (and soon IPv6)
Multiple protocols supported per UNI (Ethernet, Customer and Service VLANs, MPLS, IPv4, IPv6, and UDP)
Support for all IGMP/MLD versions
Works seamlessly with multiple ValkyrieBay and ValkyrieCompact test chassis
Ability to flexibly define protocol layers supported by the test incl. Ethernet, Customer and Service VLANs, IP and UDP
Extensive configuration options for fine-tuning tests

Valkyrie3918 Specifications

	Functional Groups
Forwarding and Throughput	– Mixed Class Throughput
	– Scaled Group Forwarding Matrix
	– Aggregated Multicast Throughput
Forwarding Latency	– Multicast Latency*
Forwarding Latency	– Min/Max Multicast Latency*
Overhead	– L2 learning
	– Repeat count
	– Frame sizes same as stream
	– Per test, per trial and per frame size learning
Capacity	Multicast Group Capacity
Interaction	– Forwarding Burdened Multicast Latency
Interaction	– Forwarding Burdened Group Join Delay

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Xena3918 test page

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.

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Why choose Valkyrie?

Valkyrie is a full-featured Layer 2-3 stateless traffic generator and analysis platform. It is used to configure and generate Ethernet traffic at all speeds up to 400GE, and analyze how network devices and services, perform in response, making it perfect for most lab-based data-plane test scenarios.