GL Communications has released PacketCheck – a PC-based, Ethernet / IP BERT and throughput test tool.
“PacketCheck is a very easy to use tool, and it truly takes confusion out of Ethernet and IP testing at all protocol layers – from raw Ethernet frames to IP/UDP packets,” said Jagdish Vadalia, GL senior manager of product development. “It can also be used as a general purpose network performance analysis tool for 10Mbps, 100Mbps and 1Gbps LANs and WANs. The product has been enhanced to support multistream generation and reception, PRBS pattern generation and reception, RTD (round-trip delay) measurement, impairment generation, loopback at all levels, including Ethernet frames and IP/UDP packets. The product’s simple-to-use GUI interface, and its powerful features compare favorably with other test sets costing significantly more. It is a perfect tool for customers who are on the lookout for cost effective Ethernet / IP BERT testing solutions."
PacketCheck has now been enhanced to generate multi-stream traffic. Each stream can be configured independently and can have different attributes like direction (Tx, Rx, or Tx and Rx), bandwidth, frame size, Layer (Ethernet/IP/UDP). On the receiving side, performance measurements like Byte Error Rate, Packet loss are calculated and reported for each stream separately.
PacketCheck can now generate PRBS patterns e.g. QRSS, 2^6-1, 2^9-1, 2^11-1, 2^15-1, 2^20-1, and 2^23-1. It measures and reports the Byte Error Rate, Error Status and the Sync Loss Count based on the PRBS reception.
