AX4000 Access Test Suite - Spirent Communications

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AX/4000 

ACCESS TEST SUITE 

Spirent Communications’ Access Test Suite provides the highest simulated subscriber 

and node capacity for control and data plane testing of access devices to validate 

scalability, reliability and performance. Utilizing the power of Spirent’s AX/4000 

platform, the Access Test Suite provides coverage for today’s common access protocols 

of PPPoX, DHCP, 802.1x, IGMP/IPTV and L2TP. 

With Spirent’s Access Test Suite, users can 

simulate large-scale DSL networks to fully stress 

next-generation access concentrators, servers and 

DSLAMs. The test suite enables R&D and 

acceptance labs to validate and demonstrate the 

true performance of access devices accommodating 

ATM and Ethernet networks. 

Unmatched Scalability 

With the mAX-IP EX, each port has the ability to 

emulate up to 64K PPPoX subscribers, 128K DHCP 

subscribers, 16K L2TP tunnels, 1K LAC/LNS nodes 

and a PPPoX server with multiple profiles. With a 

single AX/4000 chassis, a total of 512K 

subscribers, 8K LAC/LNS nodes and 128K tunnels 

can be established. 

IPv4 and IPv6 

As the world migrates to IPv6, the user may 

configure the session to use IPv6-CP instead of IP- 

CP. The Access Test Suite allows for both IPv4 and 

IPv6 access testing. 

Ease of Use 

Creating tests is quick and easy. Setting up tests is 

simple. Users can step through test-specific wizards 

and then modify test setup graphically with a 

topology editor. Further test modification is possible 

with the built-in event scheduler and test scheduler. 

Flap Events 

To mimic real world conditions, events can include 

flap-simulating scenarios such as connects and 

disconnects. This enables users to see the effect on 

the data plane as groups of subscribers and L2TP 

tunnels go up and down. 

Tcl Scripts for Windows or Unix 

All features can be scripted with Tcl on Windows and 

Unix platforms. By using RPT, the user can generate 

the script directly from the setup. Scripts can be 

exported and imported using the Access Test Suite 

RPT interface. 

AX/4000 Access 

Test Suite

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Breadth of Technologies 

Cover access testing needs with a single 

solution that supports a comprehensive list 

of protocols including PPPoE, PPPoEoA, 

PPPoA, DHCP, IGMPv1, IGMPv2, IGMPv3, 

IGMPoPPPoX, IGMP with DHCP, DHCP with 

802.1x, PPPoL2TP, HTTPoPPP, HTTP with 

DHCP, HTTPoE and HTTPoA. In addition, the 

AX/4000 supports other technology 

solutions for routing and MPLS VPNs. 

Industry Standard Tests 

Understand the abilities of the control and 

data plane with tests such as capacity, setup 

rate and RFC 2544 – based tests such as 

throughput, latency and loss. Use the results 

as benchmarks between devices or code 

builds. 

Interface Support 

Supporting 10/100, GigE, POS and ATM, 

end-to-end testing can be simulated from 

subscriber edge through the core backbone. 

For ATM, the user can configure all 

subscribers on one VCC or on 32K VCCs. 

The user can also configure both PPPoEoA 

and PPPoA on a single port. For Ethernet, the 

user can configure all sessions over one or 

more VLANs. 

SUBSCRIBER OR CLIENT 

(PPPOX) MODE 

PPPoX (P/N 401564) 

The PPPoX emulation mode supports up to 

64K PPP clients per port on Ethernet or ATM. 

There is full data plane support for each 

session using the IP Address from the IPCP 

server. Flapping of PPP clients is easily done 

in the highly configurable event scheduler. 

Configurable options include: 

■ Session attempt rate 

■ Session disconnect rate 

■ Outstanding sessions 

■ Protocol: PPPoEoA, PPPoA, or PPPoE 

■ Sessions per VLAN or VCC (1 to all) 

■ Start and step MAC address 

■ Authentication - auto, CHAP, PAP or none 

■ Unique login, domain and passwords 

■ Service name 

■ Magic number 

■ MRU size 

■ ACCM value 

■ Configure request and timeout 

■ Terminate request and timeout 

■ Responds to keep-alives 

■ IPv4-CP or IPv6 CP 

Interactive actions include: 

■ Connect 

■ Disconnect 

■ Pause 

■ Resume 

■ Retry 

■ Abort 

Schedule events include: 

■ PPPoX connect 

■ Subscriber groups 

■ Serial/parallel 

■ Retries 

■ Wait for all to connect 

■ Log statistics 

■ Ignore failed connects 

■ Failed connect threshold 

Access Setup Wizard (RFC 2544) 

Access Setup Wizard (Test Setup) Screen

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■ PPPoX disconnect 

– Subscriber groups 

– Serial/parallel 

– Retries 

– Wait for all to disconnect 

– Log statistics 

– Ignore failed connects 

– Failed disconnect threshold 

■ PPPoX_WaitForConnect-Ports 

■ PPPoX_WaitForDisconnect-Ports 

■ PPPoX _ClearStats-Ports 

Included tests: 

■ Stability 

■ Session rate 

■ Capacity 

■ Throughput test with latency and packet 

loss 

Emulation results per port or 

subscriber group: 

■ Port 

■ State 

■ Number of sessions 

■ Sessions attempted 

■ Connected successfully 

■ Failed connect 

■ Sessions up 

■ Average transactions 

■ Retries 

■ Disconnected successfully 

■ Failed releases 

■ Minimum, maximum and average setup 

time 

■ Successful setup rate 

■ Tx & Rx configure request 

■ Tx & Rx configure reject 

■ Tx & Rx configure ack 

■ Tx & Rx configure nak 

■ Tx & Rx terminate request 

■ Tx & Rx terminate ack 

■ Tx echo reply 

■ Rx echo request 

■ TX & Rx PADI 

■ TX & Rx PADO 

■ TX & Rx PADR 

■ TX & Rx PADS 

■ TX & Rx PADT 

■ TX & Rx IPCP 

■ TX & Rx PAP 

■ TX & Rx CHAP 

■ Error cause 

■ Error time 

Emulation results per session: 

User can list details on each session, save 

them to a file and refresh the details. The user 

can also show only the sessions with errors. 

■ Subscriber 

■ Index 

■ VPI/VCI or VLAN 

■ IP address 

■ MAC address 

■ PPP session ID 

■ Connection time 

■ Error status 

Access Setup Wizard (Setup Multicast Channel 

Information) 

Event Scheduler

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SUBSCRIBER OR CLIENT 

(DHCP) MODE 

DHCP Emulation (P/N 405203) 

The DHCP emulation supports up to 128K 

DHCP clients per port or 128K DHCP clients 

over a relay agent per port on Ethernet or ATM. 

Full data plane support is offered for each 

session using the IP Address from the DHPC 

server. Flapping of DHCP clients is easily done 

in the highly configurable event Scheduler. 

Configurable Options 

■ Lease time 

■ Message time out 

■ Retry count 

■ Retry timer 

■ Response wait 

■ Max message size 

■ Request rate 

■ Release rate 

■ Unique host names 

■ MAC addresses 

■ VCCs or VLANs 

Relay Agent (Option #82) Configurable 

Options: 

■ Local IP 

■ Server IP 

■ Unique circuit ID 

■ Unique remote ID 

■ Custom editor for user defined options 

Parameter Request List 

(Option #55): 

■ Subnet mask option (1) 

■ Routers option (3) 

■ Domain name servers option (6) 

■ Domain name option (15) 

■ Access Setup Wizard (test setup) screen 

■ Access Setup Wizard (RFC 2544) 

■ AX/4000 Access Test Suite 3 

■ Static routes option (33) 

■ NetBIOS name servers option (44) 

■ NetBIOS node type option (46) 

■ NetBIOS scope option (47) 

■ IP address lease time option (51) 

■ Server identifier option (54) 

■ Renewal time option (58) 

■ Rebinding time option (59) 

Interactive Actions 

and Schedule Events 

■ Bind 

■ Release 

■ Renew 

■ Clear stats 

Topology View 

Emulation Statistics 

Included tests: 

■ Stability 

■ Session rate 

■ Capacity 

■ Throughput test with latency and packet loss 

Emulation Results per Port or Subscriber 

Group: 

■ Currently attempting 

■ Currently idle 

■ Currently bound 

■ Total attempted 

■ Total retried 

■ Total bound 

■ Total failed 

■ Bind rate 

■ Attempt rate 

■ Success percentage 

■ Average setup time 

■ Discover Tx count

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■ Request Tx count 

■ Release Tx count 

■ ACK Rx 

■ Nak Rx 

■ Offer Rx 

Emulation Results per Session 

■ State 

■ IP address 

■ Lease left 

■ Discover response 

■ Request response 

■ Error cause 

IPTV WIZARD WITH IGMP 

IGMP Emulation (P/N 405202) 

The IPTV Wizard will emulate thousands of 

set-top-boxes that will be changing channels 

up, down, or randomly. The application will 

then measure the channel change time per 

user. Watch the time change as the number 

of users increase. 

Configuration options include: 

■ Test channel zapping or channel verification 

■ Run in test or in real world environments 

■ Generate background traffic 

■ Test duration in days, hours, minutes and 

seconds 

■ Supports up to 32k channels represented 

by an IP multicast address 

■ Supports IGMP versions 1, 2, and 3 

■ Optional background unicast traffic from 

each set-top-box to the host 

■ Configurable downstream simulated video 

traffic: 

– Rate 

– Frame size 

– UDP port 

– Configure the program guide and what 

type a traffic for each channel 

– ATM VCC or VLAN per client or host 

– Zap or zap-and-view 

Channel changes before view 

■ View duration 

■ Inter-client start delay 

■ Zap direction: up, down or random 

■ Initial channel 

■ Initial channel step 

■ Zap interval: leave-to-leave or multicast-toleave 

■ Channel change interval 

■ Set-top-box leave to join delay 

Chart View - Packet Rate (packets/s) 

Data Plane Summary View 

■ Join-latency threshold 

■ Leave-latency threshold 

■ Calculate latency 

■ Save timestamps 

■ Aggregate client latencies 

IPTV Real Time Statistics: 

■ Number of clients 

■ Number of changes per view 

■ State 

■ Channel changes remaining 

■ View duration remaining 

■ Calculate latency 

■ Average join latency 

■ Average leave latency 

■ Average inter-channel data latency

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IGMP Events Include: 

■ IGMP_Join 

■ IGMP_Leave 

■ IGMP_WaitFor_JoinsTx 

■ IGMP_WaitFor_LeavesTx 

IGMP Port Level Real Time Statistics: 

■ Number of host 

■ Packets dropped 

■ Tx/Rx report 

■ Tx/Rx leave 

■ Rx query 

■ Rx group query 

■ Rx group source query 

Result Manager - Access Summary 

IGMP Group Level Real Time Statistics: 

■ Host 

■ Group 

■ Host IP 

■ Group IP 

■ Group state 

■ Tx join timestamp 

■ Tx leave timestamp 

PPPOX SERVER MODE (PPPOX) 

Real-Time Decoder Viewer 

IGMP TESTING 

IGMP Emulation (P/N 405202) 

The IGMP emulation supports up to 32K 

source group combinations per port on 

Ethernet or ATM. Full downstream data plane 

support for each IGMP source. 

■ Supports IGMP versions 1, 2 

and 3 

■ Transmit delay 

■ Interval 

■ Groups per interval 

PPPoX Emulation (P/N 401564) 

The PPPoX Server Mode terminates incoming 

PPP sessions. This allows for testing of PPP 

network devices between the PPP client and 

server. Features include: 

■ Terminates up to 32K PPPoX subscribers - 

user definable 

■ Ethernet and ATM 

■ User defined address pool 

■ User defined authentication for PAP or 

CHAP 

■ User defined MRU size 

■ Data plane support per session

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LAC EMULATION MODE WITH 

SUBSCRIBERS (PPP/L2TP) 

L2TP Emulation (P/N 405204) 

LAC Emulation mode emulates subscribers 

coming in over an LAC. Allows scalable 

testing of an LNS. The LAC Emulation mode 

scales up to 1K LAC nodes, 12K LAC 

tunnels, and 32K subscribers over tunnels 

per port. This includes two startup modes: 

Start tunnels independent from sessions and 

start sessions, which then establish tunnels. 

Supported on ATM and Ethernet with data 

plane per session or per tunnel. 


■ Tunnels per node 

■ Sessions per tunnel 

■ IP Address 

■ Remote IP address(es) 

■ MTU 

■ Host name 

■ VCC / VLAN 

■ Enable authentication 

■ Password 

■ Tunnel setup rate 

■ Close tunnels immediately flag 

■ Enable hello 

■ Hello interval in seconds 

■ Retry interval 


■ Tx connect rate 

■ Rx window size 

■ Node bearer type 

Supported AVPs for both LNS and LAC with 

option to hide: 

■ Framing capabilities (3) 

■ Bearer capabilities (4) 

■ Assigned tunnel ID (9) 

■ Challenge (11) 

■ Challenge response (13) 

■ Assigned session ID (14) 

■ Call serial number (15) 

■ Framing type (19) 

■ Calling number (22) 

■ Sub-address (23) 

■ Tx connect speed (24) 

■ Initial receive LCP CONFREQ (26) 

■ Last sent LCP CONFREQ (27) 

Result Manager - Configuration 

Result Manager - PPPoX Summary 

■ Last received LCP CONFREQ (28) 

■ Proxy authentication type (29) 

■ Proxy authentication name (30) 

■ Proxy authentication challenge (31) 

■ Proxy authentication ID (32) 

■ Proxy authentication response (33) 

Interactive actions for LAC/LNS include: 

■ Tunnels up 

■ Tunnels down 

■ Clear stats 

■ Tunnel status

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Schedule Events Include: 

■ LAC connect 

■ LAC disconnect 

■ LNS capacity 

Tests Include: 

■ Tunnel capacity 

■ Stability 

Emulation Results for LAC/LNS per 

group/port: 

■ Tunnels up, down, pending 

■ Sessions up, down, pending 

Tunnel setup rate 

■ Min, max, average tunnel setup time 

■ Session setup rate 

■ Min, max, average session setup time 

■ LAC, LNS count 

■ Memory failures 

■ Rx dropped packets 

■ Timer overflows 

■ Tx, Rx packets 

■ Tx, Rx ack 

■ Tx, Rx, hello 

■ Tx, Rx start control connection 

request/reply/connected 

■ Tx, Rx stop control connection Notification 

■ Tx, Rx WAN error notify 

■ Tx, Rx set link info 

■ Tx, Rx outgoing call request, reply, 

connected 

■ Tx, Rx incoming call request, reply, 

connected 

■ Tx, Rx call disconnect notify 

Emulation Results per Tunnel: 

■ LAC IP address 

■ State of tunnel 

■ Local tunnel ID 

■ Remote tunnel ID 

■ Sessions up 

LNS EMULATION MODE WITH PPP 

SERVER (TERMINATING PPP/L2TP) 

L2TP Emulation (P/N 405204) 

The LNS Emulation mode allows the user to 

terminate both subscribers and tunnels 

coming in from an LAC. Features include 1K 

LNSs per port, Termination up to 12K tunnels 

per port, Termination up to 32K subscribers 

per port. Supported on ATM and Ethernet with 

data plane per session or per tunnel. 


■ LNS IP address 

■ MTU 

■ VCC/VLAN 

■ Hostname 

■ Domain name 

■ Base tunnel ID 

■ Base session ID 

■ Tunnel authentication and password 

■ Incoming tunnel password 

■ Setup rate 

■ Close tunnel flag 

■ Enable hello 

■ Hello interval in seconds 

■ Retry interval 


■ Tx connect rate 


■ Node bearer type 

■ Base address pool IP address 

■ Address pool size 

■ Magic number 

■ MRU size 

■ ACCM 

Schedule Events include: 

■ LNS start 

■ LNS stop 

Tests include: 

■ Stability

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HTTP OVER ACCESS 

HTTP Over Access Emulation 

(P/N 405206) 

Using the mAX-IP EX, the HTTP Over Access 

mode allows the user to generate stateful 

HTTP oE, oA, oPPPoX and with DHCP. Up to 

32k sessions can be established with each 

session generating stateful traffic. Since 

stateful traffic has retransmission involved, 

results are in “Goodput:” calculation versus 

the common “Throughput.” Goodput is the 

object size divided by the amount of time it 

took to transmit it (including retransmission). 

Part of the Triple Play Wizard, HTTP over 

Access allows for the next level of realistic 

testing. 


■ Max segment size 


■ Retry timeout 

■ Inactivity timeout 


■ Delay ACKs 

■ Delay bytes 

■ Delay timeout 

■ Piggyback 

■ Number of clients 

■ HTTP version 

■ HTTP server IP 

■ HTML file 

PING EMULATION 

Ping Emulation (P/N 405207) 

Subscribers remain connected to the network 

24x7. To validate connection, Ping can be 

used. Ping can be used between AX ports or 

with Live Network Elements. Up to 64 clients 

can be emulated per port with 10k active 

clients. 


■ Continuous ping 

■ TTL 

■ Payload size 

■ Pad value 

■ Destination: IP or node 

■ Ping count 

■ Interval 

■ Timeout 

802.1X RADIUS-EAP FOR DHCP 

EMULATION 

802.1x RADIUS-EAP For DHCP Emulation 

(P/N 405208) 

To access a network, users first must be 

authenticated. 802.1x is one method used 

with DHCP for remote access, where a 

client’s username and password are sent to 

the RADIUS server. Using the AX/4000 

802.1x RADIUS-EAP, you can validate that 

infrastructure is able to forward and 

authenticate clients. 

Supported EAP Authentication protocols: 

■ EAP-MD5 

■ EAP-TLS (Requires mAX-IP EX) 

DATA PLANE SETUP AND RESULTS 

■ Fully definable IP, UDP and TCP data plane 

packets including the PPP and L2TP 

headers 

■ Link upstream data plane to control plane 

setup to auto fill the following fields: 

– VPI/VCI (ATM only) 

– VLAN tag (Ethernet only) 

– Source MAC 

– Session ID 

– Source IP address from IPCP pool (IPv4 

or IPv6) 

– Link downstream data plane’s 

destination IP address to upstream data 

planes Source IP address from IP-CP 

pool (IPv4 or IPv6) 

Frame Size Options: 

■ Fixed 

■ Uniform distribution 

■ Gaussian distribution 

■ Quad model distribution 

■ Frame rate options include: 

– Fixed rate 

– Burst rate 

– Manually triggered 

– Random rate 

– Markov modulate rate

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DATA PLANE RESULTS 

■ List streams by protocol, tag or IP 

addresses 

■ Individual Stream analysis for long- and 

short-term 

■ Data plane analysis of sessions with a 

real-time graph: 

– Packet loss 

– Packet latency variation 

– Packet sequencing 

– Each point graphed 

CAPTURE AND DECODES 

IP Decode Suite (P/N 400472) 

■ Real-time two-way control plane capture 

■ Full port capture (control and data plane) 

PPPoX packet decode 

■ PPPoX, L2TP, DHCP and IGMP packet code 

■ Stored in text and proprietary formats 

■ AX/4000 Access Test Suite 7 

ACCESS TESTING IN THE ROUTER 

PERFORMANCE TESTER (RPT) 

Router Performance Tester 

(P/N 200310) 

■ Graphical front end 

■ Event scheduler driven with loops and 

timed waits 

■ Ports can be started in parallel or 

sequentially 

■ Data plane setup automatically configured 

from control plane 

■ Data plane allows for upstream, 

downstream and peer-to-peer with 

AX/4000 standard setup options 

■ Setup wizard for all modes which 

generates a graphical editable topology 

■ Table views for multiple port configurations 

■ Tunnel and session flapping events 

■ Fully interactive on all sessions, tunnels 

and data plane (allows for bandwidth 

adjustments in real time) 

■ Real time counters for all transmit, receive 

and aggregation statistics 

■ Per session error log 

■ All results can graph real time and saved 

at end of tests 

■ Generates Tcl script for complete 

automation 

■ Tests include throughput, capacity, session 

rate, stability 

■ Comprehensive results with setup, runlog, 

summary, details 

■ Online update tool and discussion group 

RPT RESULTS MANAGER 

The results manager is a separate 

executable that can view results from each 

test iteration. Each result file is stored in 

text comma separated value file (*.csv) 

readable by Excel and other spreadsheets. 

The file is divided up into the following 

sections: Access Summary, PPPoX Summary, 

DHCP Summary, L2TP Summary, IPTV 

Summary, Configuration and Event Log. 

The Access summary shows the start and 

stop date/time of the entire test, the 

duration, event list with the result of each 

event and elapsed time of each event. The 

data plane results in summary and detail for 

each stream or group defined. 

The PPPoX Summary shows graphs for each 

connect event. One graph with stats across a 

single port including: Attempted, Connected, 

Failed, Min Setup time, Max Setup Time, 

Average Setup Time and setup rate. The 

other graph shows a single stat across 

multiple ports. The summary also shows the 

PPPoX statistics in a table summary for the 

entire set of PPP sessions, an error log for 

failed sessions and detail statistics down to 

the group level. 

The DHCP, L2TP and IPTV Summary are very 

similar to the PPPoX summary but graphing 

the appropriate statistics. The configuration 

has the entire configuration in tables used to 

generate the results. The event log is the 

actual run log of the test used to generate 

the results. 

CONFORMANCE TEST SUITES 

PPP Conformance Test Suite 

Includes testing of conformance of PPP 

implementations and covers both PPP 

operation over POS and PPP over Ethernet 

specifications. 

The PPP CTS consists of a common subset 

of test cases that can be run against PPP 

over POS and PPP over Ethernet 

implementations, a set of test cases specific 

to PPP over POS implementations and a set 

of test cases applicable only to PPP over 

Ethernet implementations. This test suite 

verifies state transitions, packet format and 

packet processing, support for various 

configuration options for LCP, IPCP, PAP, 

CHAP and PPPoE. Part Number 404709 - 

See separate data sheet. 

L2TPv2 Conformance Test Suite 

This test suite provides extensive coverage 

(250+ test cases) on the verification of the 

L2TP version 2 state machine: Tunnel 

Establishment, Session Establishment 

including both incoming and outgoing call, 

Data Forwarding, Control Connection 

Maintenance, Reliable Delivery, Message

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Error Handling. In addition, the test suite 

offers the flexibility to run the test suite 

using PPPoE, PPPoEoA or PPPoA technology 

to trigger L2TP session establishment, 

allowing the users to select different trigger 

mechanism and providing the means to test 

the PPPoX functionalities. Part Number 

404690 - See separate data sheet. 

IEEE 802.1X Conformance Test Suite 

The IEEE 802.1X Conformance Test Suite 

(CTS) is designed to verify the conformance 

of a Port-Based Network Access Control 

implementation against the IEEE 802.1X- 

2001 specification. In addition, the MD5 

authentication mechanism is used in the test 

suite for exercising the EAPOL protocol. Part 

Number 404708 - See separate data sheet. 

RFCS SUPPORTED 

■ RFCs for the Access Test Suite: 

■ RFC 1332 IP CP 

■ RFC 1334 PAP Authentication 

■ RFC 1570 LCP Extensions 

■ RFC 1661 PPP 

■ RFC 1662 PPP in HDLC (information on 

ACCM) 

■ RFC 1994 CHAP 

■ RFC 2236 IGMPv2 

■ RFC 2131 DHCP 

■ RFC 2132 DHCP Options 

■ RFC 2364 PPP over AAL5 

■ RFC 2472 IPv6 over PPP 

■ RFC 2516 PPP over Ethernet 

■ RFC 2661 Layer Two Tunneling Protocol 

■ RFC 3376 IGMPv3 

■ IEEE 802.1 (.p/.q)VLAN tagging 

SPECIFICATIONS 

Windows® NT4 or 2000 operating system 

with SP2; XP without SP1. Recommended 

minimum requirements: 1 Gig hard disk 

space, 1 Gig RAM with 1.5 GHz CPU. 

Software Requirements 

■ AX/4000 GUI or RPT GUI 

■ Chassis PPPoX Key 

■ Chassis L2TP Key 

■ Chassis DHCP Key 

■ Chassis IGMP Key 

■ Chassis IP Decode Key 

Bundles 

Access Testing SW Bundle 

(P/N 401566): All the software you need to 

test any part of the access network. This 

includes RPT and the following license keys: 


■ Chassis L2TP Key 


■ Chassis IGMP/IPTV Key 


Access Client Side Testing SW Bundle 

(P/N 401567): Only interested in the client 

side of the access network This includes 

RPT and the following license keys: 





Triple Play SW Bundle (P/N 401576): 

Only interested in the client side of the 

access network This includes RPT and the 

following license keys: 



■ Chassis HTTP Over Access Key 


■ Chassis 802.1x EAP-RADIUS Key 


Hardware Requirements 

■ One AX/4000 mainframe or portable 

chassis 

■ One AX/4000 Ethernet or GPS control 

module 

■ One or more of the following 

generator/analyzer test modules: 

– MAX-IP G/A Test Module 

(P/N 500002H) 

– MAX-IP EX G/A Test Module with 

external CPU 

(P/N 500005) 

■ One of the following IP Layer 3 port 

interfaces per generator/ analyzer test 

modules: 

– L3 OC-12c/OC- 3c SM I/F 

(P/N 401382) 

– L3 OC-12c/OC- 3c MM I/F 

(P/N 401383) 

– L3 OC-3c SM I/F (P/N 401384) 

– L3 OC-3c MM I/F (P/N 401385) 

– ENET 10/100 I/F (P/N 401324) 

– L3 1G ENET GBIC I/F 

(P/N 401260)

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ORDERING INFORMATION 

■ PPPoX Emulation (P/N 401564) 

■ IGMP/IPTV Emulation 

(P/N 405202) 

■ DHCP Emulation (P/N 405203) 

■ L2TP Emulation (P/N 405204) 

■ HTTP Over Access Emulation 

(P/N 405206) 

■ Ping Emulation (P/N 405207) 

■ 802.1x RADIUS-EAP For DHCP Emulation 

(P/N 405208) 

■ Router Performance Tester 

(P/N 200310) 

■ IP Decode Suite (P/N 400472) 

■ Access Testing SW Bundle 

(P/N 401566) 

■ Access Client Side Testing SW Bundle 

(P/N 401567) 

■ Triple Play SW Bundle 

(P/N 401576) 

SPIRENT GLOBAL SERVICES 

Spirent Global Services provides a variety of 

professional services, support services and 

education services — all focused on helping 

customers meet their complex testing and 

service assurance requirements. For more 

information, visit the Global Services website 

at www.spirentcom.com/gs or contact your 

Spirent sales representative. 

THE COMPLETE ACCESS TEST SOLUTION 

Spirent Communications 

15200 Omega Drive 

Rockville, MD 20850 USA 

Spirent offers the most complete, end-to-end, 

scalable access test solution on the market: 

■ Four modes of emulation including: Client, 

Server, LAC, LNS 

■ Highest per port subscriber capacity at 64K 

■ Highest per port LAC/LNS Emulation at 

1,024 nodes 

■ Highest per port tunnel emulation at 16K 

■ Comprehensive Protocol Support: DHCP, 

IGMPv1, IGMPv2, IGMPv3,IGMP over PPP, 

IGMP with DHCP, DHCP with 802.1x, 

PPPoEoA, PPPoA, PPPoEoE, PPP over L2TP, 

HTTPoPPP, HTTP with DHCP, HTTPoE, 

HTTPoA 

■ Data plane for each session and tunnel 

with QoS bandwidth validation 

■ Video on demand with IP Multicast 

■ Worldwide support with IPv4 and IPv6 

support 

■ Real-world, long-term tests simulating users 

logging in and out over time with tunnels 

going up and down 

■ PPP session flapping and L2TP tunnel 

flapping 

■ Network interfaces supported: ATM OC-12 

(STM4), ATM OC-3 (STM1), GBIC Gigabit 

Ethernet and 10/100 Ethernet 

■ Complete automation support using TCL on 

Windows and Unix based systems 

■ PPP, 802.1x and L2TP conformance test 

suites 

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Calabasas, CA 91302 USA 

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Copyright © 2006 Spirent plc. All rights reserved. “Spirent” and “Inspired Innovation” are exclusive trademarks of Spirent plc and its subsidiaries. 

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