Xgig® Protocol Analysis and Test Platform · 4 Xgig® Protocol Analysis and Test Platform Xgig Package Options The Xgig Chassis in Figure 2 is available as a portable one-slot chassis

Xgig® Protocol Analysis and Test PlatformComprehensive Multi-Protocol Analyzing and Testing for Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA, and Ethernet (including FCoE, iSCSI, RoCE, and iWARP)

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Comprehensive Multi-Protocol Analyzing and Testing for Fibre Channel, SAS/SATA, and Ethernet

The Viavi Solutions Xgig Protocol Analysis and Test Platform:

y Accelerates new product development reducing development costs y Improves product quality and reliability y Helps to ensure product interoperability and performance y Facilitates field installation and maintenance by debugging field issues

The Xgig’s unified platform supports simultaneous analyzing and testing of multiple protocols based on the most comprehensive range of industry analysis and test functions in a single chassis.

Protocols

y Up to 16 G Fibre Channel y Up to 12 G SAS/SATA y 1, 10, and 40 G Ethernet, including FCoE, iSCSI, RoCE, and iWARP

Functions

y Analysis y Error injection (jamming) y Fibre Channel and SAS/SATA traffic generation y Fibre Channel load testing y 10 G Ethernet delay emulation y Bit error rate testing

Xgig provides unmatched visibility into network interactions for streamlined identification and resolution of even the most difficult network, server, and storage issues. Advanced features, such as in-line bidirectional cross-protocol Expert analysis, makes Xgig ideal for solving today’s high-speed serial bus challenges.

The Viavi Xgig Platform

Xgig is a unified, integrated platform employing a unique chassis and blade architecture for maximum scalability and flexibility. Various blades support a wide range of protocols and test functions.

Users can place an Xgig directly in line on a link, connect it using the Viavi TAP family, or cascade several Xgig chassis together for up to 64 time-synchronized analysis/test ports across multiple protocols for traffic correlation across several devices and network domains. Xgig is the only protocol analyzer supporting multiple protocols in a multi-functionality environment, all in one chassis.

Xgig’s ease-of-use and flexibility accelerate product development and testing. Users can access all protocols and analyzer functions through an intuitive, unified GUI-based suite of applications—TraceControl, PerfMon, TraceView, and Expert—running on a Windows management PC connected through a GE LAN. The Xgig 5000 chassis also provides USB interface access.

Multi-User Feature

Xgig’s unique multi-user capability offers maximum flexibility and efficient use of equipment. Multiple users can control different port pairs on one hardware blade to simultaneously conduct separate tests. Meanwhile, up to 32 concurrent users can access locked ports to view test status or data at any time.

Advanced Analysis

Xgig Analyzer’s four test applications, TraceControl, TraceView, Expert, and PerfMon, offer extensive visibility into networks to resolve even the most elusive errors and impairments. Xgig can record all traffic (frames and order sets) or specific event by setting the smart trigger condition in Trace-Control between any two end points. TraceView reveals the captured traces, the industry-standard trace-viewer format, with various navigation tools for deep packet investigation. Expert’s unique automatic trace analysis accelerates debugging by displaying an issue summary of the network topology and reporting network performance statistics. PerfMon monitors link performance in real time with critical statistics to determine network health.

Figure 1. Xgig Expert

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Unique Multifunction Offering

In addition to protocol analysis, the same hardware also provides functions such as error jamming, generation, load testing, and delay emulation for a complete test solution that saves on your capital investment. The Maestro application suite manages the multifunctional capabilities through a common interface, driving multiple tests concurrently.

Error Injection/Jamming

Used in conjunction with one or more Xgig Analyzers, Xgig Jammer manipulates network traffic to simulate errors in real time so users can verify the responsiveness and robustness of the error-recovery processes. Errors can be precisely defined and timed to thoroughly test networks and to automate most of the testing process.Traffic Generation

Xgig Generator enables developers to comprehensively test FC and SAS/SATA devices from a protocol perspective. Designed for maximum flexibility, Xgig Generator creates arbitrary traffic giving developers confidence that their networks and devices can handle traffic reliably under normal operating conditions.

FC/FCoE Load Testing

Fibre Channel and FCoE switches and networks must withstand sustained bursts of traffic without losing data. Xgig Load Tester loads Fibre Channel and FCoE links to capacity to verify that they can adequately manage high-traffic loads, maintaining network performance and reliability.

10 GE Delay Emulator

When testing datacenter interconnect functionality and performance, the 10 GE Delay Emulator can replace cumbersome fiber spools for flexible delay simulation due to distance and logic multi-path variation. Also, the Xgig Delay Emulator can simulate network impairments, such as packet drops during congestion or frame reordering from switch errors.

Bit Error Rate Testing (BERT)

Xgig BERT provides the tools to confirm that networks meet minimum data integrity standards. It also presents the results in industry-accepted report formats to facilitate certification. Xgig BERT simplifies data integrity testing letting users inject data patterns into the traffic stream that create worst-case data loading conditions to stress a network’s physical layer to its limits. It can also significantly reduce manufacturing test times for hubs, host bus adapters, FC RAIDs, and other active or passive devices by stressing all of the components in the data path.

Xgig BERT is a protocol-aware tool that accounts for traffic modifications made by devices in the transmission path.

Automation

For ultimate flexibility and control, users can access several GUI functions and configurations through the Application Program Interfaces (API) to customize and automate tests via scripts. Scripts based on C/C++ or TCL/TK let users design trigger and control combinations to accelerate development by automating and man aging regression testing for debugging and manufacturing that would otherwise be time-consuming to configure and manage through the GUI.

Accessing Xgig

Xgig can be managed and configured remotely through a GE LAN connection. Client software (Xgig and Maestro) and a web utility can be used to access blade licenses and software version statuses, to push firmware and system upgrades, and to reboot/shutdown the chassis. A terminal console is sometimes needed to manage system configuration, such as naming a chassis and configuring an IP address before a client can connect to the Xgig.

The Xgig 5000 LCD display offers more direct chassis configuration capability with a touch screen that lets users:

y view and modify the chassis system configuration, including chassis name and static and dynamic IP addresses

y view software version information and system logs

y monitor system FPGA upgrade status

y reboot or shutdown the chassis

y run a set of diagnostics to verify network connectivity.

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Xgig Package Options

The Xgig Chassis in Figure 2 is available as a portable one-slot chassis for one blade, a two-slot chassis for two blades, and a four-slot chassis for four blades. The two- and four-slot chassis are rack-mountable.

The chassis in Figure 3 is only available in a four-slot configuration.

Key Features

1 Console port for local configuration

2 Tap control via software (reserved for future use)

3 Cascade ports

4 TTL input/output for external triggering and control

5 10/100/1000 LAN connection for software control and configuration

R Reserved

6 System status LEDs: Ready, power, and temperature

7 Power on/off switch AC power connector (rear—not shown)

Xgig Features

Unique Unified Multi-Protocol, Multifunctional, Multi-User Platform

Xgig is recognized as the industry’s best storage network and device development tool that can uniquely analyze across multiple protocols at this level of functionality in one platform.

Multi-Protocol Support

Xgig simultaneously supports Fibre Channel, Ethernet and its upper protocols (FCoE, iSCSI, NFS, IP, TCP, and others), and SAS/SATA

Multi-User Support

Xgig’s unique multi-user capability lets multiple users independently control different port pairs on the same hardware blade.Up to32 users can concurrently access the same ports to view test status and data.

Comprehensive Functionality

Each blade supports extensive test functions, such as analyzer, jammer, load tester, generator, delay emulator, and BERT*.(See blade tables for the detailed functional support for each blade.)

Accelerated Debugging and Simplified Development

Viavi leads the industry in FC, SAS/SATA, FCoE, and Ethernet development tools and continues to invest in developing tools that make their extensive expertise readily available to all of their customers.

Expert Analysis Software

Viavi uniquely provides Expert Analysis on monitored links to automatically identify and locate network impairments. Expert checks on more than 1200 symptoms and applies more than 1800 metrics so developers can resolve issues before they result in network shutdowns or application slowdowns.

Unparalleled Ease-of-Use

The Xgig’s unified platform offers maximum functionality with extreme ease-of-use making it easy for engineers to learn and use.

Intuitive GUI Spend more time analyzing and less time learning the software interface

Automated Analysis/Testing

API scripting tools automate analysis and testing functions

Drag-and-Drop Triggers

Simplify trigger setup with pre-defined protocol-specific templates

Customized Triggers Template editor lets users create their own protocol templates for triggering

Protocol Development Kit

Develop custom protocol decodes

Calculate Delta Times

Delta calculator determines time deltas between any two events, timing properties of user applications, and general performance information

Figure 2. Xgig chassis and blade options

Xgig 4-slot chassis

1 2 3 4 5 R 67

1 GE Management

Ports

DB9 Legacy

USB 2.0 Type B

USB 3.0 Type A

LCD display

Cascade Ports

Trigger In/Out Ports

Figure 3. Xgig 5000 chassis

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Complete Network Visibility and Access to Data

Xgig’s extensive capabilities and flexibility provide unmatched visibility into networks to simplify problem identification and resolution, accelerate new product design, and speed time-to-market.

Largest Trace Capture Buffers Captures up to 4 GB of traffic per port—up to 32 GB per blade giving developers enough trace data to resolve even the most elusive problems

Performance Measurements Graphically displays useful performance statistics for every active link

Hide Nonrelevant Data Preset filter order hides traffic-control primitives to only display data so developers can focus on specific frames or packets

Adjustable Payload Size Reduces trace size to capture extra frame-header information by truncating payloads/frames

Drag-and-Drop Filters Simplifies filter setup with pre-defined protocol templates

Exchange View Summarizes trace by exchanges

Traffic Summary View Provides top-level event information in the trace buffer within seconds

Protocol View Lets users focus on a specific protocol layer

Customized Filters Template editor lets users create user-defined protocol templates for advanced filtering

SCSI Expert View Simplifies trace analysis by collapsing exchanges and associated behavioral information into a single event in the Data Inspector pane

Protocol Tree View Displays the tree structure of data when it is mapped to the current protocol

Histogram View Lets users focus on small areas of a trace, change the appearance and scale of graphs, and show/hide traces

DWORD View Provides a detailed view for each line of TraceView’s Summary View

Filter/Search/Hide Tool Simplifies the display and lets users access specific events quicker than any tool available

Flexible Development Platform

With its blade architecture and configurable multifunctional capabilities, Xgig is the most flexible development platform for network tools available today.

Multiple Probing Methods Xgig supports two flexible probing modes: Digital retiming and analog pass-through.

Flexible Internal Trigger Five trigger modes help users capture trace data intelligently: 1) Stop capture with the stop button — no trigger 2) Stop capture after trigger 3) Arm-on-arm condition, stops capture after trigger condition when armed 4) Arm then stop after trigger, rollback on reset condition 5) Stop when memory full

External Trigger Support Xgig platform can trigger or be triggered by an external device through BNC TTL or SMA ports.

Trace File Support Correlate traffic within devices using traces captured by Wireshark, Bus Doctor Analyzer, and I-Tech PowerFrames and analyzed using TraceView and Expert.

Choice of Decode Engine Choose between the Viavi-optimized Xgig proprietary decode engine or the Surveyor decode engine.

Leverage Test Equipment Investment

Test equipment is a significant investment for network companies, and Xgig’s unified platform helps them get the most capabilities and performance for their money.

Scalable Configuration Connect up to 4 chassis for unified triggering, capturing, and analysis for more comprehensive analysis and visibility across even the most complex networks. Chassis each have one, two, or four slots, each supporting two- or four-port blades for coordinated monitoring and time-synchronization of up to 4 chassis of mixed protocol traffic.

Scalable Licensing Add new tools on demand through software upgrades.

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Chassis Hardware Specifications

Model Name Xgig-C012 Xgig-C022 Xgig-C042 Xgig-5000Mechanical Dimensions

Height: 6.1 cm (2.4 in)Width: 30.2 cm (11.9 in)Depth: 34 cm (13.4 in)Weight: 2.4 kg (5.3 lb) empty,2.9 kg (6.4 lb) (one blade)

Height: 8.7 cm (3.4 in) Width: 25.4 cm (10 in)Depth: 38.6 cm (15.3 in)Weight: 5.0 kg (11.0 lb) empty, 6.0 kg (13.2 lb) (two blades)

Height: 8.7 cm (3.4 in)Width: 38.6 cm (15.2 in)Depth: 32.3 cm (12.7 in)Weight: 6.1 kg (13.5 lb) empty, 8.2 kg (18.0 lb) (four blades)

Height: 13.34 cm (5.25 in)Width: 47.63 cm (18.75 in) Depth: 55.25 cm (21.75 in)Weight: 13 kg (30 lb) empty24 kg (53 lb) loaded

ConnectorsCascade Ports: RJ45 (2)

Console Port: DB9Management Port: 10/100/1000 RJ45

Power: Male IEC 320 ReceptacleTrigger Out: TTLTrigger In: TTL

Management port: 10/100/1000 dual RJ45Connector: Trigger in/outUSB 2.0 A/B portsUSB 3.0 A porteSATA portCascading ports: RJ45 (2)Power: Male IEC320 receptacle

Environment TemperatureOperational: 10 to +40°C (50 to +104°F)

Nonoperational: –40 to +70°C (–40 to +158°F)Humidity

Operational: Up to 90% humidity (non-condensing) at +40°CNonoperational: Up to 95% humidity at +65°C

VibrationOperational: Random vibration 5 to 500 Hz, 10 minutes per axis, 2.41g (rms)

Non-operational: Random vibration 5 to 500 Hz, 10 minutes per axis, 0.3 g (rms) resonant search, 5 to 500 Hz swept sine, 1 octave/min. sweep rate, 0.75 g, 5-minute resonant dwell at 4 resonances/axis

Electromagnetic ComplianceFCC Class A, CE Compatibility

SafetyUL

Power Specifications Input Voltage Range120/240 VAC, 2.0 A 120/240 VAC, 3.3 A 120/240 VAC, 5.5 A 100/240 VAC, 10 AFuse Protection 2.5 A 250 V 4.0 A 250 V 10.0 A 250 V —Input Frequency50/60 Hz 50/60 Hz 50/60 Hz 47/63 Hz

Other Control SourceMicrosoft Windows PC

Maximum Number of Time-Synchronized Chassis4

Time Stamp Resolution5 ns

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Blade Hardware Specifications

Blade Options

2-port 10 GE FC blades

2-port SAS/SATA narrow blade

4-port 4 G FC blade 4-port 8 G FC blade

1.5, 3, and 6 G SAS/SATA wide-port blade

8-port 10 GE/FC blade

4-port 16 G FC blade

12 G SAS wide-port blade

Mechanical DimensionsLength: 292 mm (11.5 in)Width: 156 mm (6.125 in)Weight: 0.5 kg (0.9 lb)

Length: 584 mm (23 in)Width: 312 mm (12.25 in)Weight: 1 kg (2.3 lb)

Length: 292 mm (11.5 in)Width: 571.5 mm (22.5 in)Weight: 2.26 kg (5 lb)

Length: 406.9 mm (16.02 in)Width: 418.3 mm (16.47 in)Weight: 3.62 kg (8 lb)

Indicators(Green, Yellow, Off)

In UseLink

LED x (Application Specific)LED y (Application Specific)

N/A (Blue, Green, Orange, Off) Port left/right LED

(Green, Orange/Yellow, White, Off) LED indicatorsSignalTriggerRate

Connectors2 SFP(+) or XFP connectorsReference Clock put: SMA (10 G blade only)

2 mini-SAS connectors

4 SFP connectors 2 wide-port/4x SAS connectors (3 G wide-blade)2 wide-port/mini SAS connectors (6 G wide-blade)

8 port SFP+ connectorsClock in/out (2 for 16 G 4-port): MCX connectors

2 port mini-SAS HD connectorsClock out: SMA connector

Physical Memory Buffer Size

Maximum1 GB per port2 GB blade

2 GB per port8 GB per blade

2 GB per port8 GB per blade

2 GB per port16 GB per blade

2 GB per port (8-port blade)4 GB per port (4-port blade)16 GB per blade

4 GB per port32 GB per wide-port blade

Protocol Support

Blade TypeXgig 10 GE/FC 2-port blade

Xgig 6 G SAS narrow-port blade

Xgig 4 G FC/GE 4-port blade Xgig 8 G FC 4-port blade

Xgig 6 G SAS wide-port blade

Xgig5000 10 GE 8-port blade Xgig5000 16 G FC 4-port blade

Xgig5000 12 G SAS wide-port blade

Protocol Supported10 GE, 10 G FC 1.5 G/3 G/6 G

SAS/SATA1 G/2 G/4 G FC and 1 GE 1 G/2 G/4 G/8 G FC

1.5 G/3 G/6 G SAS/SATA

10 GE, 10 G FC 4 G/8 G/16 G FC

3 G/6 G/12 G SAS

Function Supported10 GE - Analyzer, jammer, load tester, and delay emulator 10 G FC - Analyzer

Analyzer, jammer, generator

1 G/2 G/4 G/8 G FC - Analyzer, jammer, load tester, BERT 1 GE - Analyzer, jammer, BERT

Analyzer, jammer, generator

10 GE - Analyzer and load tester 10 G FC - Analyzer 4 G/8 G/16 G FC - Analyzer, jammer, load tester, generator

Analyzer, jammer, generator

User-DefinedUser-defined custom protocol decodes

Minimum System Requirements

Operating SystemsWindows 2000, Windows XP, or Windows 2003 operating systemsSmall Configuration (sync group of up to 16 ports)Pentium III 800 MHz; 512 MB RAM min; 1 GB preferred, 40 GB min disk space, 100/1000 Mbps EthernetLarge Configuration (sync group of over 16 ports)Pentium 4 with 2 GHz or faster processor; 1 GB RAM min; 80 GB disk space; 1000 Mbps Ethernet

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