Compliance testing: IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3bs, 802.3ck, and 802.3df standards.
Multi-interface support:
QSFP-DD MSA revision 4.0, OSFP MSA revision 2.0, 4×200G, 2×400G, 8×100G, 1×800G.
QSFP-DD MSA revision 6.3, 2×200G, 4×100G.
800G, 400G AOC and DAC cables support.
Line rate: 850, 425/212.5/106.25 (single lambda), and 103.125, OIF DCO Coherent OSFP, QSFP-DD, OpenZR+.
Physical-layer validation:
PCS lane mapping and monitoring capability.
Per-lane skew generation and measurement.
PCS error generation and monitoring per lane.
Full MDIO/I2C read/write access.
Transceiver validation: QSFP-DD800, OSFP800, QSFP-DD, OSFP.
Breakout cable support: Verification of 2×400G, 4×200G, 8×100GE, 4×100GE, and 2×200GE breakout cables, providing optical Tx/Rx power, L2/L3 traffic, and BERT statistics per link.
Power measurement per lane: Optical channel power measurement with color indicators.
Frequency measurements: Provides per lane frequency measurement of the received signal (in Hz).
Frequency offset: Offsetting of the transmitted signal's clock on a selected interface, and monitoring.
BERT:
Service disruption time (SDT): Measurements based on no-traffic mode, with statistics including longest disruption time, shortest, last, average, count, total, and pass/fail thresholds.
Latency measurements in BERT: High-resolution delay measurements integrated in the BER with statistics including current, average, maximum, minimum, count, total, and pass/fail thresholds.
Error injection mode: Manual, rate, and continuous (maximum rate).
Layer 2 MAC address and Ether type: Edition available Q-in-Q capability with the ability to go up to three layers of stacked VLANs.
Layer 3/4:
Source and destination IP address configuration available.
IP TOS/DSP configuration available.
UDP source and destination port configuration available.
Smart loopback: Return 800G Ethernet traffic to the local unit by swapping packet overhead up to layer 4.
Rx frame-size analysis: 64, 65 - 127, 128 - 255, 256 - 511, 512 - 1023, 1024-1518, > 1518.
Rx rate: Line utilization (%), Ethernet bandwidth (Mbit/s), frame rate (frame/s), and frame count.
Ethernet alarms: Link down, local fault detected, local fault received, remote fault, LOA.
Ethernet errors: FCS, jabber, runt, undersize, and oversize.
PCS lane alarms and errors: LOS, LOC-lane, LOAML, excessive skew, Inv. Marker, Pre-FEC SYMB, and Pre-FEC-bit.
PCS logical lane mapping: Manual and random.
Pre-emphasis: Pre-/main-/post-cursor options to improve electrical waveform, including gray encoding.
FEC: Generation and analysis of FEC correctable and uncorrectable errors, local and remote degraded SER monitoring (error-free and uncorrectable), and percentage.
FEC statistics: Number of symbol errors per correctable codeword, number of pre-FEC symbol errors and bit statistics, codeword count.
Autonegotiation support: Advertise local interface parameters and identify negotiated capabilities with the remote link partner.
Autonegotiation status: Monitors and displays the status of the autonegotiation process, providing information on its various states.
Link training support: Provide the capability to enable or disable the link training process support for copper cable assemblies as defined by IEEE 802.3df (Clause 162.8.11) and the 800G-ETC-R standard.
Link training status: Monitors and displays the status of the link training process, providing information on its various states.
Link training debugging: Report local and remote Tx coefficient update and exception counts and support the export of a detailed log of all link training status and control messages to aid in debugging.
Remote access: Supported via EXFO Remote ToolBox, Remote Desktop, VNC, and EXFO Multilink for multiuser support.
LLDP: The Ethernet BERT application also allows LLDP neighbor validation, which displays the most important information forwarded by the LLDP protocol.
Automation: Wide range of commands available per application to allow test automation.
Reporting: Test results are included in a report that can be generated in different formats: PDF, HTML, and JSON.
