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Expandable to 320 ports (100BASE-TX)
Any combination of five interface modules can be installed in the
MD1230A. Moreover, a maximum of eight MD1230A units can be
daisy chained via Ethernet with one unit acting as a controller for all
units. Furthermore, time synchronization is performed by connect-
ing a clock to the daisy chain. Latency between any ports can be
measured. The number of ports can be expanded up to a maximum
of 320 by using the 10M/100M Ethernet module.
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Real-time measurement of in-service traffic
Traffic monitoring
The MD1230A can measure send and receive byte/frame counts,
QoS frame counts in 8 priority ranks, counts of each error type, count
of SONET/SDH alarms, etc., in real time. In addition, when the
above-described filter function is used, specific frame traffic can be
measured for each port. This is an extremely powerful function
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for example, in VPN services, specific MPLS VoIP frames (spec-
ified by UDP port number) can be extracted.
Latency
The MD1230A is able to measure the latency of simplex data trans-
fer. When up to eight MD1230A units are daisy chained, latency can
be measured by interconnecting a clock signal for time synchroniza-
tion. In addition, when a GPS antenna is connected, latency can be
measured between remote locations.
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Full wire rate transmission of user-edited data stream
The MD1230A can send a maximum of 256 data streams per port at
the full wire rate. Data editing is a simple three-step procedure de-
scribed below.
Step 1: Setting frame data
The frame editor is used to edit the frame data for any of the
Ethernet, PPP, Cisco HDLC, ARP, IPv4, IPv6, IPX, MPLS, VLAN,
TCP, UDP, IGMP, RIP and DHCP protocols. The protocol header for-
mat is displayed on screen, and header input by the user is also sup-
ported. Part or all of the IP address and MAC address can be set to
increment, decrement or random. When IPv6, IP address portion of
32 bits less can be set to increment, decrement or random.
Module
10M/100M Gigabit
2.5G 10G
Ethernet Ethernet
No. of ports/module 8 2 1 1
No. of modules/unit 5 5 5 5
No. of ports/unit 40 10 5 5
No. of ports for 8
320 80 40 40
connections
Trigger Filter
Condition Remarks
condition condition
√√
Destination
10M/100M Ethernet and
MAC address
Gigabit Ethernet support those
√√
Source
conditions. MAC address
MAC address
mask permits portion match.
√√
Destination IP
2.5G (1.31), 2.5G (1.55), 10G
address
(1.31), 10G (1.55) support
√√
Source IP
those conditions. IP address
address
mask permits portion match
User-defined
Two sets of user-defined 32
√√
32 bit pattern
bit pattern conditions per port.
Sets offset and pattern match
√√
User-defined
at any frame position. Pattern
32 bit pattern
mask permits portion match.
Good frame, FCS error,
undersize, fragment, oversize,
oversize/FCS error, dribble
√√Error condition error, alignment error, IP
header checksum error, TCP
header checksum error, UDP
header checksum error
√√Ext. trigger input Rising edge of pulse
√ — Traffic over When traffic setting overflows
√ — Latency over When latency setting overflows
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Powerful and flexible filter/trigger conditions
The MD1230A has powerful and flexible filter and trigger functions
that can be set independently for each port as shown in the follow-
ing table.
As an example, when filtering only VoIP frames on an MPLS net-
work, the MPLS label is specified as a 32 bit pattern (1), and VoIP
frames are specified at the UDP header port number field as a 32 bit
pattern (2). As a result, if only VoIP frames are captured on the
specified MPLS network, the number of packets can be counted.
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Support for MPLS, IPv6, BGP4, etc., protocol decode
The 256 Mbyte max. capture buffer does not drop frames even at the
full wire rate of 10 Gbit/s. The in-service capture function is an es-
pecially powerful and useful tool for troubleshooting the causes of
network faults. Captured frames can be searched on the basis of
specified conditions and interesting frames can be selected and dis-
played. Each port has an independent capture buffer and is unaf-
fected by other ports.
Moreover, each of the Ethernet, PPP, LCP, MPLS, VLAN, ARP, IPv4,
ICMP, IPv6, TCP, UDP, IGMP, RIP, BGP4 and DHCP protocols can
be decoded and displayed for captured frames. When 10M/100M
Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet, IPX can be decoded.
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