Name:MPLS OAM Protocol Emulation Software 
Type: Technical Datasheet
Size: 370 KB
Date: 28 September 2006

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Optical Signaling Emulation Software

The most comprehensive tool to automatically verify the operation, performance and scalability of LSP Ping implementations; monitor the health of MPLS systems; and identify and resolve MPLS problems more quickly and with greater confidence.

Agilent N2X MPLS OAM Protocol Emulation software provides a comprehensive and scalable solution to verify the correct operation of MPLS label switched paths.

N2X can not only be used to validate the implementation of LSP Ping functionality but can also be an integral tool in helping troubleshoot and maintain MPLS networks and devices. By emulating the LSP Ping protocol, N2X can generate, analyse and measure ping and traceroute Echo requests to detect and isolate LSP faults.

Agilent N2X MPLS OAM Protocol Emulation software works in conjunction with the N2X MPLS Signalling Emulation software to provide a single comprehensive MPLS test solution. MPLS LSPs can be dynamically established or maintained using the N2X RSVP-TE or LDP/CR-LDP emulation. Additionally, wire-speed labelled data traffic can be generated across those LSPs and their status can be monitored using N2X LSP Ping emulation.

Key Features

• LSP Ping protocol emulation

• Automatically send Ping Echo requests to validate the status of active LSPs
• Automatically send Traceroute requests to report LSP hop-by-hop information
• Accurately measure Ping roundtrip latency
• Fully integrated with N2X RSVP-TE and LDP signalling
• Works with N2X’s wire-speed traffic generator/analyzer