What’s New

The latest Agilent N2X base software release 6.6 includes new products and enhancements:

• Full N2X support for 40G: OC-768 POS XS Test Card
  The N2X 40Gb/s PoS Test Card provides full line rate traffic at 40Gb/s and real-time QoS analysis (PDU Builder & 32K Tx/Rx streams).
• Native EPON Test Card : N5604A Tri-rate Ethernet XR-2
  The N5604A Tri-rate Ethernet XR-2 EPON provides a Gigabit Ethernet PON interface, using the IEEE 802.3ah standard.   The Agilent N2X is the only multiport traffic solution in the market that includes native EPON specific test capabilities .  
• Next Generation of High Performance Tri-rate Ethernet Test Card
  The new N2X N5630A Tri-rate Ethernet XS-2 Test Card provides industry-dominating protocol scalability and performance testing for routers and switches
• N2X E7887A DHCP Emulation Software
  The new E7887A DHCP Emulation Software is designed to simulate thousands of clients, relay agents, and servers that use DHCP to dynamically allocate or receive IP addresses and other network configuration parameters.  The DHCP software is available on Ethernet interfaces up to 10Gb/s.  VLAN's and custom DHCP options are supported to provide complete DHCP testing.
  

More Information

• What was new in Past Releases
  • Release 6.5
• Technical Data Sheets
• New:
• DHCP Emulation Software (E7887A)
• Updated:
• Next Generation Ethernet 10/100/1000BASE-T and 1000BASE-X (SFP) XP-2, XR-2 and XS-2 Test Cards. N5550A, N5551A, N5552A, N5553A, N5630A
• IPv4 and IPv6 Protocol Conformance Test Suites - N5701A, N5702A, N5704A, N5705A, N5706A, N5725A
• MEF Conformance Test Suite.N5590A & N5591A

• White Paper
• Testing Ethernet Passive Optical Networks
  

• Press Releases
  • Fiberxon Selects Agilent Technologies N2X Multiservices Test Solution to Verify EPON Triple-Play Service Performance (January 18, 2006)
  • Agilent Technologies' N2X multiservices test solution key in verifying IPv6 readiness at industry-leading interoperability network trial (December 8, 2005)
  • Agilent Technologies N2X multiservices test solution first to offer complete EPON performance analysis (October 24, 2005)
  • Agilent Technologies' N2X multiservices test solution verifies triple-play service delivery in industry's first multivendor GMPLS network trial (October 19, 2005)