(1888PressRelease)
October 01, 2009 - Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA - GL Communications Inc., announced today the release of its new OC3/12 and STM1/4 Analysis and Emulation Card. In a statement released to the press, Mr. Jagdish Vadalia, senior manager said, “LightSpeed 1000 is our new Dual OC3/12 STM1/4 PCI-Express card for protocol analysis and emulation of ATM, POS, RAW, and Ethernet traffic.
The card also sports 2 GigaBytes of DDR2 RAM, a GigE, and a USB 2.0 interface making this card one of the most versatile and powerful cards in GL’s repertoire”. He added, “LightSpeed 1000 comes with software for overall monitoring, BERT, emulation, and protocol analysis with a price tag that compares very favorably with similar test instruments at 3 times the price”.
Mr. Vadalia provided the following details, “Multiple cards are possible in a rack PC for analysis of 4 or more signals simultaneously. When LightSpeed 1000 is enclosed, the USB 2.0 interface is used to connect with a Notebook PC. The GigE port provides independent Ethernet testing at wirespeed for applications such as BERT and RFC 2544. A unique feature of the card is the capability to capture and transmit at wirespeed to/from hard disk on all interfaces”.
Some of the important and unique features:
•Ability to capture to disk at full rate in both directions without error. This permits detailed offline analysis that is not possible with other test instruments. Capture is possible on both optical ports and the single Ethernet port. Triggered and filtered capture is also possible.
•Wirespeed BERT over ATM, POS, and RAW formats on both ports simultaneously
•Complex and flexible filtering options: Sixteen 128 bit independently applied filters, both ports, 128 bit user defined mask per filter, AND/OR Boolean expressions, include and exclude conditions
•Hardware based precise time stamping of cells / packets with 10 nsec resolution, 1 ppm accuracy
•Portability thru a USB 2.0 Interface
•Single Mode or Multi Mode Fiber SFP support
•High performance x4 PCIe compliant interface
•Onboard SODIMM memory (DDR2) – up to 2 Giga bytes
Modes of Operation:
POS Mode - Packet over SONET / SDH
POS, or Packet over SONET/SDH at OC3/12 and STM1/4 is supported at full rates over dual interfaces. Access, capture, analysis, and emulation of PPP and HDLC, all carrying IP traffic in real-time makes this card useful to many applications including Routing, Deep Packet Inspection, and other Internet traffic applications.
ATM – Asynchronous Transfer Mode
ATM at OC3/12 STM1/4 is supported at full rates over dual interfaces. Access, capture, analysis, and emulation of ATM cells at wire-speed make this interface capability applicable for wide ranging next generation networks.
RAW or Transparent Mode
Raw or transparent mode allows direct access to the SONET / SDH payload for BERT, data transmit and receive applications.
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