Ixia's TXS family of Ethernet Load Modules offer complete Layer 2-7 network and application testing functionality in a single platform. Wire-speed Layer 2-3 traffic generation and analysis is supported, along with high-performance, scalable routing/bridging protocol emulation and true Layer 4-7 session emulation. The TXS family offers the highest port density solution in the industry for auto-negotiable 10/100/1000 Mbps Ethernet over copper, as well as Gigabit Ethernet over fiber - up to 240 Gigabit Ethernet test ports on a single chassis. Every port on a TXS Load Module contains a powerful RISC processor running Linux and a full, testing-optimized TCP/IP stack. This architecture provides unprecedented performance and flexibility for testing routers, switches, broadband and wireless access devices, web servers, secure gateways, firewalls, and many other networking and content-aware devices.
• RJ45 or SFP
• 4 ports
• 64 ports, max
• 10/100/1000 Mbps
• Capture Buffer (per port): 8MB
• 256 sequential packet streams
• 256 Advanced interleaved streams
• Real-Time 64-bit counts and frame rates
• Spreadsheet format for convenient manipulation of statistics counters
• Eight Quality of Service counters (supporting 802.1p, and IPv4 TOS measurements)
• Up to six user-defined statistics are available that use a trigger condition
• Extended statistics for ARP, ICMP, and PHCP
• TX stream statistics for transmit frame count and rate
• External file logging for statistics and alerts
• Audible and visual alerts with user-definable thresholds
• Built-in FPGA logic for wire-speed packet generation with timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and packet group signatures
• Built-in FPGA logic for wire-speed packet filtering, capturing, real-time latency for each packet group, data integrity, and sequence checking
• Fixed, increment or decrement by user-defined step, value lists, range lists, cascade, random, and chained user defined field features
• 48-bit source/destination address, 2x128-bit user-definable pattern and offset, frame length range, CRC error, data integrity error, sequence checking error (small, big, reverse)
• Fixed, increment (Byte/Word), decrement (Byte/Word), random, repeating, user-specified up to 13K bytes
• Link State, Line Speed, Frames Sent, Valid Frames Received, Bytes Sent/Received, Fragments, Undersize, Oversize, CRC Errors, VLAN Tagged Frames, User-Defined Stat 1, User- Defined Stat 2, Capture Trigger (UDS 3), Capture filter (UDS 4), User-Defined Stat 5, User-Defined Stat 6, 8 QoS counters, Data Integrity • Frames, Data Integrity Errors, Sequence Checking Frames, Sequence Checking Errors, ARP, and Ping requests and replies
• CRC (Good/Bad/None), Undersize, Oversize error generation
• Real- time statistics to track up to 128K packet flows with throughput and latency measurements
• 20 ns resolution latency measurement
• Fixed, random, or increment by user-defined step, random, weighted random frame lenght controls
• IxNetwork: integrated Layer 2-3 data/control plane performance and functional testing. Routing/bridging emulation includes: BGP4/4+, OSPFv2/v3, IS-ISv4/v6, RIP/RIPng, RSVP-TE, LDP, L2 MPLS VPNs, L3 MPLS VPNs, VPLS, IGMPv1/v2/v3, MLDv1/v2, PIM-SMv4/v6, STP, RSTP, and MSTP
• IxExplorer: Layer 2-3 wire-speed traffic generation and analysis
• IxScriptMate: Automated test environment for Layer 2-3 data and control plane testing
• IxLoad: Layer 4-7 performance testing
• IxChariot®: Emulated application performance testing over Layer 4
• IxAccess: Broadband access performance testing, including PPPoX and L2TPv2/v3
• IxVPN: Performance verification of IPSec devices and networks
• IxAuthenticate: 802.1x authentication performance testing
