IGMP Protocol Emulation Software
The E7828A IGMP emulation integrates industry's most scalable IGMPv2 and IGMPv3 testing into the N2X multiprotocol test solution for verifying the functionality, performance and scalability of IPv4 multicast replication and snooping devices and triple play services.
The Internet Group Management Protocol (IGMP) is used by clients to join and leave IPv4 multicast groups and by multicast routers to learn group membership information from clients. IPTV is one of the most important applications of multicast. With IPTV and other types of multicast deployments becoming more prevalent, it is important for service providers and network equipment manufacturers to validate the performance of devices participating in multicast distribution to ensure that they provide the required service quality. Such tests must be performed at scale and in the presence of a realistic traffic and protocol mix.
The N2X IGMP emulation enables the testing of IPv4 multicast replication devices such as BNG, BSA, BSR, and B-RAS. Using the client emulation with the provided IGMP querier emulation, multicast snooping mechanisms can be exercised and tested on devices such as OLT, DSLAM, and Ethernet switch. These tests can be conducted in isolation or as part of an integrated triple play services test including IPTV, simulated VoIP traffic, data and additional access protocols such as DHCP, PPPoX or MLD.
Key Features
- Powerful IGMP Emulation
- Full emulation of IGMPv2 and IGMPv3
- Scales to thousands of clients per test port
- Supported on all N2X routing cards, including POS, ATM and Ethernet
- Operates over VLANs and stacked VLANs
- Integrated Triple Play Solution
- Runs simultaneously with other protocol emulations on the same port
- Can be used as part of IPTV test scenarios
- Operates over PPP sessions or using DHCP-assigned addresses
- Partial emulation of IGMP querier to test IGMP snooping devices
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