Xena Networks - Chimera - Network Impairment Emulation Tool
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True wire-speed impairment @ 100Gbps (plus 50 / 40 /25 & 10Gbps)
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Ease of use – Chimera is a stand-alone impairment tool that integrates seamlessly with Xena’s Valkyrie traffic generator, letting you speed up your work flow by using the same SW to both generate and impair Ethernet traffic.
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Highest port density in the industry – plus you can reserve individual port-pairs without blocking access to the others
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Setting up custom impairment distributions is a breeze
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Chimera supports a broad range of impairments (latency/jitter, packet & port impairments, flexible distributions, BW shaping etc)
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Powerful, easy-to-use automation & scripting options
Chimera is a network impairment emulator that makes it easy to introduce consistent, accurate, well-defined and repeatable impairments (e.g. packet manipulation, packet drop, latency and jitter) to traffic between DUTs in the lab. All rates from 10GE to 100GE are supported by a single 2-slot test module.
Chimera is ideal for NEMs who want to optimize Quality of Experience (QoE) for customers by ensuring equipment can handle acceptable levels of impairment. Service providers, enterprises, and government agencies can also use Chimera to validate Quality of Service (QoS) for voice, video, and data traffic being sent across their networks.
Chimera can be installed as a test module in a ValkyrieBay chassis for seamless integration with ValkyrieManager’s traffic generator. This provides a simple way to impair traffic being generated by Valkyrie from within the same UI – a unique feature for Chimera. Or it is available in a compact chassis for use as a “standalone” solution for emulating impairment on traffic between 2 DUTs.
Chimera can also be controlled using ValkyrieCLI, a simple and easy to use command-line-interface scripting API making test automation easy and fast.
The result is a cost-effective and powerful network impairment emulator solution for benchmarking, stress testing/negative testing, “what-if” testing, and regression testing.
Hardware
Chimera is available as a 2-slot test module for a ValkyrieBay chassis, the Val-C12-2400G, where ValkyrieManager is used to emulate impairment as part of its standard user-interface.
Chi-100G-5S-2P tests 5 speeds: 100G, 50G, 40G, 25G and 10G
STANDALONE CHASSIS:
ChimeraCompact is a standalone version of any of the Chimera test modules where the test module is installed in a quiet desktop-sized chassis.
Software
Chimera in ValkyrieManager
When a Chimera test module is installed in a ValkyrieBay chassis, ValkyrieManager detects its presence and makes the Chimera’s software options available for adding impairment. This makes it very easy for test engineers to emulate impairment via the same GUI they use for generating the stateless Ethernet traffic.
Types of test
PERFORMANCE TESTING
Performance testing focuses the performance of a DUT via parameters like maximum throughput, latency and jitter.
When performance testing includes analysis of how a DUT can send traffic through a network Chimera emulates realistic network conditions including impairments that are likely to occur when a signal passes through a network.
QOS AND SERVICE VALIDATION
Chimera offers network emulation for QoS and service validation testing. By adding latency, packet drop and other impairments the user can test that a system under test can maintain a high QoS and service quality guarantee despite difficult network conditions.
FUNCTIONAL TESTING
Functional testing verifies the basic functionality of the DUT and will depend on the DUT and the application.
Chimera provides a wide range of network emulation features for functional testing, including latency and other typical impairments.
SECURITY TESTING
Security testing is usually conducted during development to reveal how a DUT handles abnormal conditions.
Chimera makes it easy for users to apply all kinds of network conditions to analyze and verify the behavior DUT.
SOFTWARE APPLICATION TESTING
Software application testing can cover many parameters depending on the application. The testing can be done to verify the basic functionality of the software and to see how it performs under different network conditions. Chimera provides a wide range of network emulation features to emulate network conditions, including latency and other typical impairments.
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More Product Information
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True wire-speed impairment @ 100Gbps (plus 50 / 40 /25 & 10Gbps)
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Ease of use – Chimera is a stand-alone impairment tool that integrates seamlessly with Xena’s Valkyrie traffic generator, letting you speed up your work flow by using the same SW to both generate and impair Ethernet traffic.
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Highest port density in the industry – plus you can reserve individual port-pairs without blocking access to the others
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Setting up custom impairment distributions is a breeze
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Chimera supports a broad range of impairments (latency/jitter, packet & port impairments, flexible distributions, BW shaping etc)
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Powerful, easy-to-use automation & scripting options
Xena OpenAutomation (XOA) is an open-source test automation framework for use with Xena’s Valkyrie & Vulcan Traffic Generation & Analysis (TGA) solutions and Chimera, our network impairment emulator.
Fast, easy to use and extremely flexible, XOA features a Python API that runs on any OS.
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World’s fastest production line tester
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Ultra-simple web-browser UI - 3 clicks to complete test cycle
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Seamless parallel test case execution
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Displays test status, progress, and real time logs
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Easy to script using CLI and RESTapi from any software environment, for rapid integration with customers own UI applications
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Telnet feature makes it easy to remotely check DUT status (e.g. LED, USB and REGEDIT), and modify DUT configuration
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Interface with customer Manufacturing Execution System (MES) system via DLL/ SQL/HTTP, to store test results into its database
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Vantage can test all Ethernet speeds from 100M up to 400G speeds (including both NRZ & PAM4)
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It is based on Xena’s Valkyrie platform making it the industry’s most stable and accurate Ethernet production test solution
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Free software & free tech support product lifetime
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Easy-to-use UI (“2-clicks” to get a stream running)
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Wide range of optical & copper test modules for testing all speeds up to 800GE
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Thor-400G-7S-1P & Thor-100G5S-1P are the only test modules on the market that can test AN/ LT as well as PAM4-based speeds (50, 100, 200 and 400GE) and NRZ based speeds (10, 25, 40, 50 and 100GE)
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Advanced FEC stats for PAM4
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Same CLI commands across all port speeds
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Industry’s best traffic scheduler
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Industry’s only UI integrated Traffic Generation & Impairment solution (Valkyrie & Chimera)
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Robust chassis platform (Linux), runs “forever”, supporting +40-day test cases
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Smooth and fast chassis software upgrade processes
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Multi-user platform with port reservation resolution down to one port per user
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Very precise and accurate traffic generation
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Synchronize chassis with ValkyrieTimeSynch option
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Free training & tech support for product lifetime
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Responsive and easy to use management software
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High performance TLS testing suite
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Use your own application traffic or AppMix to create and scale realistic application traffic
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1U and 2U rack mounting hardware with a wide range of port speeds offers low entry and yet a scalable solution
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Ease of use
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Free software (incl. VulcanManager and VulcanAppMix)
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Free tech support product lifetime
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Application emulation for NGFW performance, SSL decryption, and NAT
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Firewall resource utilization monitoring during performance test
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Smart comparison and analysis of test reports for various use cases
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Easy-to-use web UI with multi-user login support
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Easy-to-understand PDF report facilitating decision making
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Teledyne LeCroy Xena
Teledyne LeCroy Xena is a leader in Ethernet traffic generators, physical layer testing and network emulation. They are one of a handful of companies with solutions for testing the fastest Ethernet speeds (currently 800Gbps using 112G SerDes). Customers around the world rely on Xena solutions to test, debug and validate the performance and interoperability of new Ethernet devices and outperform their competitors. Acquired by Teledyne LeCroy in 2023, Xena is renowned for user-friendly solutions with the industry’s lowest TCO thanks to the Xena Value Pack’s generous software licensing policy.
Xena offers award-winning solutions for generating Ethernet traffic, physical layer testing and network emulation. Xena Ethernet Traffic Generators are a series of over 12 NICs and 2 chassis options with user-friendly software for conducting a wide range of test scenarios for all Ethernet speeds from 10Mbps up to 800Gbps. Xena also offers a dedicated network emulation NIC for impairing traffic with various forms of latency and jitter at wire-speed up to 100Gbps. All Xena Ethernet traffic generators and the network emulation NICs include powerful options for Physical Layer testing. Comprehensive software is bundled with all Xena solutions. XenaManager is a Windows PC client used for configuring and running traffic, there are standalone apps for running industry-standard RFC2544, 2889, 3918 & Y.1564 tests, plus comprehensive open-source automation and scripting options.
Contact Details
Xena Networks ApS (Global HQ, Europe)
Gammel Lundtoftevej 1B, 2nd floor, 2800 Lyngby, Denmark
VAT#: DK 30615956
Phone: +45 7020 0823
Email: sales@xenanetworks.com
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