Answers to your Questions

How scalable is the recently announced Agilent RouterTester 900?

The new system delivers close to a 10 fold increase in traffic and protocol scalability. We are positioning as the most scalable test system in its class. Here are some numbers that should answer your question:

Test Ports

A standard six-foot equipment rack (40U) can hold up to:

• 160 test ports of OC-3c, OC-12c, or OC-48c
• or up to 1,280 test ports of 10/100 Ethernet
• up to three 6ft racks can be connected together, with measurements synchronized across all chassis.
• up to 60 chassis can be controlled by a single PC, with performance measurements, such as latency, synchronized to 10 ns

If you do the mathematics, that is up to 3,840 10/100 Ethernet test ports in one system.

Multi-Port Traffic Generation

More than 2,000 independently controlled traffic streams can be generated and analyzed by each port.

Protocol Emulation

Users can test up to 1,000 routing sessions and 50,000 MPLS tunnels on each port.