Defining Traffic with N2X
The Agilent N2X helps you build up real-world network traffic scenarios in just a
few simple steps.
Defining traffic is an essential part of the network equipment testing process.
Network equipment manufacturers should measure the performance of
their products by testing traffic forwarding, policing, and QoS with different
protocol encapsulations. Service providers select network equipment by testing
them under rigorous conditions. With a test tool that defines realistic traffic,
discovering the weaknesses of network equipment is much easier.
The rising number of protocols and the increasing complexity of network
traffic require easy, realistic and flexible ways to define traffic. The Agilent
N2X is capable of generating a traffic load and variety that resemble real-world
scenarios, and it has many easy-to-use features that help improve and accelerate
test processes.
N2X enables users to build multi-layer Protocol Data Units (PDUs) from
a wide range of predefined protocols, or even write their own proprietary
protocols with Extensible Markup Language (XML), to perform a test.
While the traffic is running, you can observe real-time measurements
on a per port, per stream, or per field basis. The N2X’s PDU Builder is a
flexible software tool for creating PDUs. A key feature is that it can easily
generate a series of values by applying a modifier to certain fields, such
as specifying a range of IP addresses. This application note provides
an illustrated tutorial on how to define and modify traffic on the N2X.
|
Network Services 
