GL Communications (News - Alert) Inc., a major player in providing test, analysis and monitoring products and services to the worldwide telecommunications and VoIP industry, has unveiled OC3-12 STM1-4 Analysis and Emulation equipment.
In a statement, Jagdish Vadalia, senior manager for product development of the company, explained that voice, data, and video traffic has been explosding as smartphones, IP TV, video streaming and cloud- based services continue to expand and become widely adopted.”
“A dominant protocol for IP transport is PoS (Packet over SONET) and another is ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode). Both schemes are packet based, with ATM using fixed size packets of 53 bytes called "cells", and PoS using variable packet sizes closely matching to Ethernet frames,” said Vadalia.
Vadalia continued to say that GL's LightSpeed1000 hardware platform (PCIe Card and USB Pod) is capable of OC-3/12 and STM-1/4 wire-speed processing on dual optical ports for functions such as wire-speed recording and wire-speed playback of ATM, PoS, RAW, and Ethernet Traffic.
Also, this solution comes fully equipped with software for overall monitoring, BERT, emulation and protocol analysis coupled with a price tag (News - Alert) that compares very favorably with similar test instruments at three times the price.
Vadalia further pointed out that normally, the LightSpeed1000 is used for protocol analysis of ATM, PoS, raw unchannelized and unframed data and Ethernet traffic at IP, UDP (News - Alert), and higher layers.
Reportedly, the hardware can be easily configured / programmed for delaying of ATM Cells or PPP packets.The card's multiple connectivity using PCIe, Gigabit Ethernet (GigE), USB 2.0 and onboard DDR2 memory makes it suitable for various applications.
Vadalia continued that the USB 2.0 interface is used to connect with a Notebook PC, Ethernet port for testing BER / RFC2544, SONET and Ethernet bridge and so on. Meanwhile, the analyzer card is built upon FPGA technology to upgrade it in the field. A unique feature of the card is the capability to capture, transmit and process at wirespeed to/from applications and hard disk on all interfaces. API Toolkit allows user to develop specialized applications.
“GL’s other Ultra OC-3 / STM-1 card (PCI (News - Alert)) plugs into a PC expansion slot for analyzing, testing, simulating, and monitoring OC-3 and STS-1 signals. The Ultra OC-3 / STM-1 card may be used in conjunction with GL's Ultra T1 Card, Ultra E1 Card and Ultra T3 Card in the same PC to provide a complete OC-3 / STM-1, STS-1/STM-0, DS3, DS1, E1 and DS0 testing solution,” said Vadalia.
Edited by Allison Boccamazzo