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? Generates FCoE traffic per the most recent T11 proposal ? Guarantees speeds to full line rate ? Supports a variety of port topologies among Xgig FCoE and Fibre Channel ports ? Follows the FIP standard proposal for FCoE discovery and virtual link establishment while also managing extended link services. Alternatively, the Xgig Load Tester also provides the option of entity instantiation directly via FCoE ? Controls traffic flow via Priority Flow Control (PFC) PAUSE frames. Each Load Tester port is capable of suspending specific stream(s) when receiving PAUSE frames as well as generating PFC PAUSE frames to stop transmissions from the other end of links ? Emulates as many as 256 Vn_Ports at each physical Load Tester port with complete flexibility of VLAn values. Emulating Vn_port behaviors enables the Xgig FCoE Load Tester to conduct fabric and port login processes as well as configure a variety of port topologies among ports to comprehensively test FCoE switch virtualization features
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10 gigabit FCoe load tester
The new FCoE protocol proposal is considered by many to be the most promising technology for I/o consolidation at 10 Gb/s. Based upon a 10 Gigabit Ethernet switched network topology, FCoE switches merge Fibre Channel traffic into Ethernet traffic by encapsulating Fibre Channel frames into Ethernet packets. In order to test and verify the evolving FCoE technology, developers need a hardware-based test platform that is protocol-aware for both Fibre Channel and Ethernet. Finisar has made available the industry?s first FCoE traffic generation tool for comprehensively testing FCoE switches. The Xgig® FCoE Load Tester forms the cornerstone for testing and verifying the design of FCoE equipment, giving developers complete flexibility and visibility into FCoE traffic when used with the Xgig Analyzer. With the Xgig FCoE Load Tester, developers will be able to verify performance, data integrity, scalability, network robustness, and equipment interoperability.
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The Xgig FCoE Load Tester is available on Xgig 10GE blades and supports both XFP and SFP+ interfaces. While providing many of the same capabilities as the Xgig Fibre Channel Load Tester, the Xgig FCoE Load Tester also enables a range of key capabilities designed to verify the performance and resilience of FCoE switches. The Load Tester offers dramatic flexibility that allows testing and verification of even the most complicated traffic topologies, and test configuration is simplified through the use of an intuitive GUI interface. Each physical Load Tester is able to generate up to 8 different traffic profiles and 1024 data streams. As the Xgig Load Tester monitors both transmitted and received traffic, it provides comprehensive throughput statistics for each physical and virtual port while alerting Xgig FCoE Analyzer and Jammer Xgig FCoE Load Tester Medusa I/O Performance Test FC Storage CNA Host FCoE Switch Controller Xgig FC Load Tester FCoE Storage Figure 1: Example setup with the Xgig Load Tester and Medusa Lab Tools for testing FCoE switch performance. FC Ethernet Trigger
