JDS Uniphase T-BERD User manual

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Ethernet, Fibre Channel, IP, and TCP/UDP Testing Manual

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Contents
About this Manual xv
Purpose and scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvi
Ethernet, IP, and TCP/UDP Testing Manual. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Conventions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Safety and compliance information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Technical assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Chapter 1 Basic Testing 1
Step 1: Selecting a test application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Step 2: Configuring a test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Step 3: Connecting the instrument to the circuit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Step 4: Starting the test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Step 5: Viewing test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Setting the result group and category . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Additional test result information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Running multiple tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Chapter 2 3.072G Optical Testing 7
About 3.072G Optical testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
BER Testing 3.072G Optical Layer 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Monitoring 3.072G Optical Layer 1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Chapter 3 CPRI/OBSAI Testing 11
About CPRI/OBSAI testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Layer 1 BER CPRI or OBSAI Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Layer 2 CPRI testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Inserting alarms. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Layer 2 OBSAI testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Inserting errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Monitoring CPRI or OBSAI layer 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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Chapter 4 Ethernet and IP Testing 21
About Ethernet and IP testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Features and capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Understanding the graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Frame settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Packet settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24
Ethernet and IP test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
MiM test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
MPLS-TP test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
PTP/1588 test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Configuring 10 Gigabit Ethernet WAN tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
Configuring Ethernet VPLS tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
VPLS tunnels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Virtual channels. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
VPLS test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Configuring MPLS over Ethernet tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
MPLS test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Configuring IPv4 and IPv6 tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Cable Diagnostics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Running cable diagnostics. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Viewing cable measurements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Adjusting the frequency of transmitted optical signals. . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Enabling automatic traffic transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Prerequisites for traffic transmission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Issues to consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32
Enabling the feature. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Discovering another JDSU test instrument using J-Connect . . . . . . . . 33
Discoverable instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Discovering an instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
About the Refresh key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Sorting discovered instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Application names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Observing details for an instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Protocol Analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Layer 1 BER testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
BER testing layer 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Monitoring layer 1 BER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Layer 2 testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Specifying interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Specifying Ethernet frame settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Things to consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Specifying the settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Configuring VLAN tagged traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Configuring Q-in-Q traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configuring stacked VLAN traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configuring VPLS traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configuring MPLS traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Configuring LBM Traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Specifying Ethernet filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Filtering traffic using Q-in-Q criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Filtering traffic using stacked VLAN criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
Filtering traffic using VPLS criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
Filtering traffic using MPLS criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Filtering traffic using byte pattern criteria . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
Filtering traffic using payload criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

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Specifying traffic load settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Transmitting a constant load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Transmitting a bursty load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Transmitting a ramped load . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
Transmitting and analyzing layer 2 traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
Transmitting and analyzing layer 2 patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
Monitoring layer 2 traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
Transmitting and analyzing layer 2 MPLS-TP, T-MPLS or MPLS traffic 64
About MPLS-TP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Analyzing MPLS-TP OAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Transmitting and analyzing MPLS-TP traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Using J-Proof to verify layer 2 transparency . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Understanding transparent loopbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Configuring the traffic originating instrument . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Using Quick Config to configure test frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Verifying the far end filter settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Initiating the transparent loopback . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Starting the frame sequence. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Observing transparency results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Layer 3 testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73
Specifying L3 interface settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specifying the data mode and link initialization settings . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Specifying PPPoE settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
PPPoE messages. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Terminating a PPPoE session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Specifying transmitted IPv4 packet settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Specifying IPv4 filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Specifying transmitted IPv6 packet settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Specifying IPv6 filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Transmitting and analyzing IP traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
Ping testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Specifying IP settings for Ping and Traceroute testing . . . . . . . . . . 83
Transmitting ping request packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Running Traceroute. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
Monitoring IP traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
Capturing packets for analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
What is captured? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Test traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Control plane traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
How much can be stored in the buffer?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Why use packet slicing? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
Understanding the Capture toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Specifying filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
Capturing packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Manually capturing packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
Capturing packets based on a trigger. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
Saving or exporting captured packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
How long will it take to save the PCAP file? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Analyzing the packets using Wireshark® . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
Analyzing the packets using J-Mentor. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
Loopback testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Inserting errors or pause frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Inserting alarms or defects. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
Measuring round trip delay or packet jitter. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
Measuring one way delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
CDMA/GPS receivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
ATP-GPS test packets. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
Network diagram . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

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Things to consider . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
About the One Way Delay test option and accessory kit. . . . . . . . . . . 104
CDMA Receiver Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
GPS Receiver Kit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Step 1: Connecting the receivers to your instruments . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Connecting the CDMA Receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Connecting the GPS receiver . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
Step 2: Measuring one way delay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
Measuring service disruption time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
OAM service and link layer testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Service layer features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
Link layer features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Specifying OAM settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
Turning AIS or RDI analysis ON . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Sending LBM or LTM messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
MAC-in-MAC testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
Understanding MAC-in-MAC test results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Understanding the MAC-in-MAC LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Configuring layer 2 MAC-in-MAC tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Specifying interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Specifying Ethernet frame settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
Specifying Ethernet filter settings for MiM traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Specifying OAM settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Specifying traffic load settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Transmitting layer 2 MiM traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
Inserting errors or pause frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Measuring round trip delay and packet jitter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Measuring service disruption time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Monitoring layer 2 MiM traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Synchronous Ethernet testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Transmitting and analyzing PTP/1588 traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
About PTP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Analyzing PTP traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 123
Discovering traffic using J-Profiler . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125
Chapter 5 TCP/UDP Testing 127
About TCP/UDP testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Features and capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
Understanding the graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
TCP/UDP test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
Understanding the ATP Listen IP and Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Specifying layer 2 and layer 3 settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Specifying layer 4 settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Well known ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Specifying TCP/UDP settings for transmitted traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
Configuring the traffic load. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Specifying the frame or packet length for transmitted traffic . . . . . . . . 134
Filtering received traffic using layer 2 or layer 3 criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Filtering received traffic using layer 4 criteria. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Transmitting layer 4 traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Inserting errors or pause frames . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Loop back testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Running TCP Host applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
Changing settings during the test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Streams pipe: multiple TCP streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Understanding the LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Understanding TCP Host test results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138

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Viewing results for a specific stream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Viewing cumulative link results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Viewing TCP Host results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Focusing on key results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
Configuring the streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Specifying TCP Host settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
Running the TCP Host application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Running the TCP Wirespeed application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
TrueSpeed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
Chapter 6 Triple Play and Multiple Streams Testing 145
About Triple Play and Multiple Streams testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Features and capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
Streams Pipe soft key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Using the action buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Multiple Streams testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
Multiple Streams test applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Understanding the LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Streams pipe: multiple streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
Understanding multiple streams test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149
Viewing results for a specific stream. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Viewing cumulative link results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Viewing graphical results for all streams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Changing graph properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
Enabling multiple streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Specifying the load type for all streams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
Specifying the load unit on a stream with burst. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
Specifying the load unit for multiple streams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Specifying common traffic characteristics for multiple streams. . . . . . 154
Specifying layer 2 stream settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
Automatically incrementing configured MAC addresses or VLAN IDs 156
Specifying layer 3 stream settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
Specifying layer 4 stream settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158
Transmitting multiple streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
Triple Play testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Triple Play test applications. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Understanding the LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
Streams pipe: Triple Play streams. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Understanding Triple Play test results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Viewing cumulative link results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Viewing graphs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
Changing graph properties . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Characterizing Triple Play services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
Specifying layer 2 and layer 3 settings for Triple Play services. . . . . . 164
Transmitting multiple Triple Play streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
SAM-Complete . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Looping back multiple streams . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Running the TCP Host script . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Playing audio clips . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
Chapter 7 Loop back Testing 167
About Loop back testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Loop back terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Local unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Loop back unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168

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Terminate mode. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Loop back mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
Key loop back concepts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
ARP settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Address swapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Filter criteria on the loop back unit . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Loop types. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
LBM Traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
VLAN and Q-in-Q traffic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
VPLS labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
VPLS service provider and customer destination addresses . . . . 169
MPLS labels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
MPLS destination addresses. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
TCP/UDP ATP Listen IP Address and Listen Port . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
Understanding the graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Loop back action buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Loop back messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Loop back tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171
Specifying a unit identifier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
Using LLB to loop received traffic back to the local unit. . . . . . . . . . . 172
Using Loop Up to initiate a loop back from the local unit . . . . . . . . . . 174
Chapter 8 VoIP Testing 177
About VoIP testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Features and capabilities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Understanding VoIP basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178
Understanding the graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Action buttons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Understanding the LED panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 179
Understanding the VoIP call bar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Understanding VoIP test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Layered view: Quality Layer Buttons. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180
Layered View: Button Colors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
Navigating the results display . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
VoIP test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Populating the Address Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
Specifying interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Specifying Ethernet frame and IP settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
Specifying VoIP settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
Specifying VoIP Filters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Placing and receiving calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Registering with the server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
Placing calls. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Receiving calls manually . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
Automatically answering calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Capturing packets for analysis. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Understanding the Capture toolbar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Specifying filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Capturing packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
Analyzing Audio Packets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
Chapter 9 Fibre Channel Testing 195
About Fibre Channel Testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Features and capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Understanding the graphical user interface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
Fibre Channel test applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197

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Configuring layer 1 tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
BER testing layer 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Monitoring layer 1 BER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
Configuring layer 2 Fibre Channel tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Specifying interface settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
Specifying Fibre Channel frame settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
Specifying Fibre Channel filter settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
Specifying traffic load settings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
Transmitting and analyzing layer 2 traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
Loop back testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Transmitting and analyzing patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
Measuring service disruption time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Inserting errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
Measuring round trip delay. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
Monitoring layer 2 traffic. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
Chapter 10 Automated Testing 209
TrueSAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Setting up TrueSAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
Loading TrueSAM Profile . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
Running TrueSAM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
Launching a single automated test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
Automated RFC 2544. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
Features and capabilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
About loopbacks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
J-QuickCheck . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Understanding the J-QuickCheck stages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Test at configured Max Bandwidth . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Layer 2 Quick Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Asymmetrical tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Throughput test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
JDSU zeroing-in method. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
Throughput test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Pass/fail threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Latency (RTD) test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
About the latency test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
Pass/fail threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Packet Jitter test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
About the Packet Jitter test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Packet Jitter test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Pass/fail threshold . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
About the System Recovery test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
About the System Recovery test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
System Recovery test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Frame Loss test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
About the frame loss test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Frame Loss test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Back to Back Frames test (Burst test). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
About the Back to Back Frames test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
Back to Back test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Optimizing the test time. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Importing and exporting RFC config files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
Configuring the Enhanced RFC 2544 or Fibre Channel tests . . . . . . . 237
Specifying the external test settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
Setting Connection parameters. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Configuration methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238

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Test selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
Running Enhanced RFC 2544 and FC tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
SAMComplete. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Initiating the SAMComplete Test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
Configuring SAMComplete test settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Choosing SAMComplete tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Running SAMComplete tests. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
Automated VLAN tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 263
Automated FTP Throughput tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
Automated HTTP Throughput tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Automated TCP Throughput tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
TrueSpeed Test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
TrueSpeed test steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
About the test steps. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Configuring the TrueSpeed test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Running the TrueSpeed test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 276
Testing using TAM automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Before testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Connecting to the management network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Connecting to the test network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Setting up a TAM test. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 280
Saving automated test report data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282
Chapter 11 Test Results 283
About test results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
Summary Status results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 284
CPRI/OBSAI test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
CPRI and OBSAI LEDs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 285
Interface/Signal results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 286
CPRI/OBSAI Error Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
CPRI/OBSAI Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
CPRI L1 Inband Protocol results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
OBSAI Status Results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
CPRI/OBSAI Payload BERT results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 288
Ethernet, Fibre Channel, IP, and TCP/UDP results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 289
Ethernet, Fibre Channel, IP, and TCP/UDP, LEDs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291
Cable Diagnostic results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 293
MDI or MDIX Status result. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Fault Type result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Distance (m) result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Skew (ns) result. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Polarity result. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Pair result . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
SLA/KPI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Interface results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
L2 Link Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
L2 Link Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 299
L2 Filter Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302
L2 Filter Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 305
J-Proof (transparency) results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 306
L2 BERT Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 307
CDMA Receiver Status results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
CDMA/GPS Receiver Log . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 308
Service OAM results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 309
L-OAM Modes results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
L-OAM Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 310
L-OAM States results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311

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L-OAM Error History results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311
L3 Link Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 312
L3 Link Counts results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
L3 Filter Stats results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
L3 Filter Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 314
L3/IP Config Status results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Ping results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 316
Traceroute results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Error Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Error Stats (Layer 1 BERT) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317
Error Stats (Layer 2 Traffic). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 318
Error Stats (Layer 3 Traffic). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 319
Capture results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 320
Sync Status Messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
AutoNeg Status results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321
Login Status results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Implicit or Explicit (E-Port) login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
Explicit (Fabric/N-Port) login . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323
PTP Link Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 324
PTP Link Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325
PTP Graphs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
L4 Link Stats results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Detailed L4 Stats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 327
Cumulative L4 results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
L4 Link Counts results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 328
L4 Filter Stats results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
L4 Filter Counts results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
J-Profiler results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 329
Graphical results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Disabling automatic graph generation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 330
Histogram results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Event Log results. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331
Time test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332
Chapter 12 Troubleshooting 333
Before testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
The test application I need is not available. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
I am receiving unexpected errors when running optical applications .
334
Resolution. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Performing tests . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Optical Overload Protection message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Inconsistent test results . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Result values are blank . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 334
Unit on far end will not loop up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
A receiving instrument is showing many bit errors . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
RFC 2544 button does not appear . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
I am transmitting layer 2 Ethernet traffic with OAM frames at 10 Mbps,
but no frames are transmitted or received . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
Upgrades and options. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
How do I upgrade my instrument? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335
How do I install test options? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 335

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Appendix A GPS Option for Timing Verification and Analysis 337
GPS and Precision Timing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Use of GPS Hardware in Testing. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
GPS Option Hardware and Software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
GPS Option List of Contents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 338
Outputs/Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
One-Way Delay Connections. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 339
Glossary 341
Index 349

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About this Manual
This prefix explains how to use this manual. Topics discussed include the
following:
–“Purpose and scope” on page xvi
–“Assumptions” on page xvi
–“Terminology” on page xvi
–“Ethernet, IP, and TCP/UDP Testing Manual” on page xvii
–“Conventions” on page xvii
–“Safety and compliance information” on page xviii
–“Technical assistance” on page xix

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Purpose and scope
The purpose of this manual is to help you successfully use the Ethernet, IP, and
TCP/IP test capabilities of the T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800.
This manual includes task-based instructions that describe how to configure,
use, and troubleshoot the general functions of your instrument.
Assumptions
This manual is intended for novice, intermediate, and experienced users who
want to use the T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800 effectively and efficiently. We are
assuming that you have basic computer experience and are familiar with basic
telecommunication concepts, terminology, and safety.
Terminology
The T-BERD 5800 is branded as the MTS-5800 in Europe, and it is inter-
changeably referred to as the T-BERD 5800, MTS 5800, MTS-5800, MTS5800
and Media Test Set 5800 throughout supporting documentation.
The following terms have a specific meaning when they are used in this
manual:
–T-BERD ⁄MTS 5800—The Handheld Network Test Family of products
(may be T-BERD/MTS 5802, 5812P, and so on).
–OC-n—Used to refer to each of the optical SONET rates supported by the
instrument (OC-3, OC-12, OC-48, and OC-192), where “n” represents the
user-selected line rate.
–STM-n—Used to refer to each of the optical SDH rates supported by the
instrument (STM-1, STM-4, STM-16, and STM-64), where “n” represents
the user-selected line rate.
–STS-1—Used to refer to the electrical equivalent of OC-1 (51.84 Mbps)
supported by the instrument.
–STM-1e—Used to refer to the electrical equivalent of STM-1
(155.52 Mbps) supported by the T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800.
–10/100/1000 Ethernet—Used to represent 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet.
–1GigE—Used to represent 1 Gigabit Ethernet.
–10GigE—Used to represent 10 Gigabit Ethernet.
–JDSU Ethernet test set—A test set marketed by JDSU and designed to
transmit an Acterna Test Packet (ATP) payload. ATP packets carry a time
stamp used to calculate a variety of test results. The T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800,
FST-2802 TestPad, the SmartClass Ethernet tester, the HST with an
Ethernet SIM, the T-BERD/MTS 8000 Transport Module, and the MSAM
can all be configured to transmit and analyze ATP payloads, and can be
used in end-to-end and loopback configurations during testing.
–SFP—Small form-factor pluggable module. Used throughout this manual
to represent pluggable optical modules.
–XFP—10 Gigabit small form-factor pluggable module. Used throughout
this manual to represent pluggable optical modules used to connect to the
family of 10 Gbps circuits (ranging from 9.95 Gbps to 11.3 Gbps).

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Ethernet, IP, and TCP/UDP Testing Manual
This is the Ethernet, IP, and, TCP/UDP testing manual for the
MT-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800. The manual is application-oriented and contains infor-
mation about using these instruments to test service carried on each of the
listed networks. It includes an overview of testing features, instructions for
using the instruments to generate and transmit traffic over a circuit, and
detailed test result descriptions. This manual also provides contact information
for JDSU’s Technical Assistance Center (TAC).
Use this manual in conjunction with the following manuals:
– The PDH, SONET, and SDH Testing Manual provides detailed instructions
for testing on each of the listed networks.
– The Getting Started Manual provides basic instructions for setting up the
T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800, instrument specifications, and contact information
for JDSU’s Technical Assistance Center (TAC).
–Help. The topics addressed in the testing manuals are also available on
the T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800 in an HTML format.
Conventions
This manual uses conventions and symbols, as described in the following
tables.
Table 1 Typographical conventions
Description Example
User interface actions and buttons or
switches you have to press appear in
this typeface.
Press the OK key.
Code and output messages appear in
this typeface.
All results okay
Text you must type exactly as shown
appears in this typeface.
Type: a:\set.exe in the dialog box.
Variables appear in this typeface. Type the new hostname.
Book references appear in this typeface. Refer to Newton’s Telecom Dictionary
Table 2 Keyboard and menu conventions
Description Example
A plus sign +indicates simultaneous
keystrokes.
Press Ctrl+s
A comma indicates consecutive key
strokes.
Press Alt+f,s
A slanted bracket indicates choosing a
submenu from menu.
On the menu bar, click
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Table 3 Symbol conventions
Table 4 Safety definitions
Safety and compliance information
Safety and compliance information for the instrument are provided in printed
form and ship with your instrument.
This symbol represents a general hazard.
This symbol represents hazardous voltages.
This symbol represents a risk of explosion.
This symbol represents a Note indicating related information or
tip.
This symbol, located on the equipment, battery, or its pack-
aging indicates that the equipment or battery must not be
disposed of in a land-fill site or as municipal waste, and
should be disposed of according to your national regula-
tions.
WARNING
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided,
could result in death or serious injury.
CAUTION
Indicates a potentially hazardous situation which, if not avoided,
may result in minor or moderate injury.