H3C has selected Spirent Communications’ TestCenter platform to evaluate the performance of the H3C S12500 family of data center switches.
Spirent TestCenter was selected specifically to test forwarding performance of the high-port-density S12500 platform. The S12500 is the first data center class core switch based on a 100 Gigabit Ethernet (GigE) platform and supports 40 GigE, 100 GigE and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) links, meeting the ever-increasing performance requirements of modern data centers.
Spirent says it provides the industry’s highest test port density with 4.8 terabits of traffic generation and analysis per rack. Furthermore, the realism capabilities only available with Spirent TestCenter reveal the true performance of data center elements and systems, according to the company.
Tests performed by H3C included evaluating the forwarding performance of Layer 2, Layer 3 (IPv4 and IPv6), multicast and MPLS traffic on 128 10G ports, as well as cache testing with bursty traffic. The results, say Spirent, demonstrate that the S12500 platform is capable of supporting line-rate 100 GigE traffic with zero packet loss, through superior forwarding performance, powerful caching capabilities and extremely high reliability and stability.
The accuracy resolution capabilities of Spirent TestCenter’s architecture enabled this specific effort and were designed to support 2.5ns with Layer 2-7 performance testing for end-to-end high-speed testing.
