IXIA Novus25/10GE8SFP28 Load Module

This chapter provides details about Novus25/10GE8SFP28 family of load modules and their specifications and features.

Novus25/10GE8SFP28 is a high density, 8-port, SFP28 25/10GE load module. This load module provides time-sensitive networking (TSN) capabilities, and high-scale control and data plane traffic to validate switched networks. Novus supports 8x25GE SFP28 ports with QSA56 adaptors and 8x10GE SFP28 ports with QSA56 adaptors. It enables multi-vendor interoperability of 25GE and 10GE testing between different speeds over copper, multimode and single-mode fiber interconnect media.

Key Features

The key features of Novus25/10GE8SFP28 load module are as follows:

Load Modules

The Novus25/10GE8SFP28 family consists of the following model on a single slot card:

The load module is described as follows:

Novus25/10GE8SFP28

Novus25/10GE8SFP28 is an SFP28 10/25 Gigabit Ethernet full-featured load module. It has 1-slot with 8-ports adaptor based SFP28 physical interface. It provides L2-3 support with complete protocol coverage. It is compatible with the following chassis:

The Novus25/10GE8SFP28 load module is shown in the following figure:

TSN enablement option

Novus25/10GE8SFP28 (944-1164) load module has a factory installed option for enabling TSN capability.

Note: The factory installed option is required for new purchases of the Novus25/10GE8SFP28 load module with 8-port 8-ports adaptor based SFP28 physical interface.

Specifications

The load module specifications are contained in the following table.

 
Feature Novus25/10GE8SFP28
Part number 944-1164

Hardware Load Module Specifications

Slot / Number of Ports

1-slot load module with:

  • 1x25GE SFP28 ports with QSA56 adaptors
  • 1x10GE SFP28 ports with QSA56 adaptors

Physical Interface

8-ports of native QSFP28 + 8 each QSA56 adaptors

Supported Port Speeds

  • 25GE/port: 25GE-capable fiber and passive copper cable media
  • 10GE/port: 10GE-capable fiber and passive copper cable media
Number of users Up to 8-users per load module

CPU and Memory

Multicore processor with 2GB of CPU memory per port for 25/10GE speed modes

IEEE Interface Protocols

  • IEEE 802.3 100GBASE-R LAN
  • IEEE P802.3bj
  • IEEE P802.3bm
  • IEEE P802.3by
  • IEEE 802.3ba
  • IEEE 802.3ae

Advanced Layer 1 support

25GE:

  • Auto-negotiation (AN), Clause 73 for passive copper DAC. Compatible with 25G Consortium v 1.6 (uses 25G CID)
  • Link Training (LT) for 25GE copper DAC media (Clause 93, 110); note: Clause 72 link training patterns are not supported
  • Ethernet Forward Error Correction:
    • FC-FEC, Clause 74 for BASE-R PHYs
    • RS-FEC, Clause 108 for 25GBASE-R PHYs
    • FEC statistics:

    - RS-FEC corrected and uncorrected codeword count

    - FC-FEC corrected and uncorrected block count

    - FC-FEC corrected error bits

  • Ability to independently turn ON or OFF AN with Link training, or FEC, or to allow IEEE defaults to automatically manage the interoperability

10GE:

  • Independent SFP28 ports with 10GE speed support

Transceiver Support

  • 100GBASE-SR4 and 4x25GBASE-SR QSFP28 for multimode fiber
    • Pluggable transceiver
  • 100GBASE-LR4 QSFP28 for single-mode fiber
    • Pluggable transceiver
  • 100G PSM4 QSFP28 for single mode fiber
    • Pluggable transceiver
  • 25/10GE SFP28-LR for single mode fiber
    • Pluggable transceiver
    • 25/10GE support requires an LC-duplex single mode fiber cable
  • 25/10GE SFP28-SR for multimode fiber
    • Pluggable transceiver
    • 25/10GE support requires an LC-duplex multimode fiber cable
  • SFP28 DAC (support CA-N)
    • Pluggable DAC
    • 25/10GE support requires a passive copper DAC
    • This card supports CA-N cables for up to 2 meters in length with RS-FEC turned ON or FC-FEC turned ON or No-FEC turned at all

Cable Media

  • 100GBASE-SR4 multimode fiber AOC and MT-MT 12-fiber point-to-point cables for QSFP28
  • 100GBASE-CR4, passive, copper DAC up to 5 meters in length; note: requires RS-FEC to be enabled
  • 25GBASE-SR requires an LC-duplex multimode fiber, point-to-point cable
  • 25GBASE-LR requires an LC-duplex single mode fiber, point-to-point cable
  • 25GBASE-CR requires a passive copper DAC point-point, up to 3 meters in length note: requires BASE-R FEC Clause 74 or RS-FEC Clause 91 to be enabled per IEEE 802.4by standard

Load Module Dimensions

17.3” (L) x 1.3” (W) x 12.0” (H)

440 mm (L) x 33 mm (W) x 305 mm (H)

Load Module Weights

Module only: 11.8 lbs. (5.35 kg)

Shipping: 19.24 lbs. (8.73 kg) includes eight QSA56 adaptors

Temperature (Ambient Air)

Operating: 41°F to 95°F (5°C to 35°C)

Storage: 41°F to 122°F (5°C to 50°C)

Humidity (Ambient Air)

Operating: 0% to 85%, non-condensing

Storage: 0% to 85%, non-condensing

Chassis Capacity: Maximum Number of Cards and Ports per Chassis Model

12 slot rack-mount chassis (XGS12- SD/HSL)

12 load modules per chassis:

  • 96-ports of 25GE
  • 96-ports of 10GE

2-slot rack-mount chassis (XGS2- SD/HSL)

2 load modules per chassis:

  • 16-ports of 25GE
  • 16-ports of 10GE

Transmit Feature Specifications

Transmit Engine

Wire-speed packet generation with timestamps, sequence numbers, data integrity signature, and packet group signatures

Max. Streams per Port

  • 25GE: 32
  • 10GE: 32

Max. Streams per Port in Data Center Ethernet

  • 25GE: 32
  • 10GE: 32

Stream Controls

Rate and frame size change on the fly, sequential and advanced stream scheduler

Minimum Frame Size

60 bytes at full line rate

49 bytes at less than full line rate

Maximum Frame Size

14,000 bytes

Maximum Fame Size in Data Center Ethernet

9,216 bytes

Priority Flow Control

  • 8 line-rate-capable queues with each supporting up to 2,500 byte frame lengths
  • 1 queue supporting up to 9,216 byte frame lengths

Frame Length Controls

Fixed, increment by user-defined step, weighted pairs, uniform, repeatable random, IMIX, and Quad Gaussian

User defined fields (UDF)

Fixed, increment or decrement by user-defined step, sequence, value list, and random configurations. Up to ten, 32-bit wide UDFs are available.

Value Lists (max.)

1M / UDF

Sequence (max.)

  • 25GE: 8K/UDF
  • 10GE: 8K/UDF

Error Generation

Generate good CRC or force bad CRC, undersize and oversize standard Ethernet frame lengths, and bad checksum

Hardware Checksum Generation

Checksum generation and verification for IPv4, IP over IP, IGMP/GRE/TCP/UDP, L2TP, GTP

Link Fault Signaling

Reports, no fault, remote fault, and local fault port statistics; generate local and remote faults with controls for the number of faults and order of faults, plus the ability to select the option to have the transmit port ignore link faults from a remote link partner.

Latency Measurement Resolution

2.5 nanoseconds

Intrinsic Latency Compensation

Removes inherent latency

Transmit line clock adjustment

Ability to adjust the parts per million line frequency over a range of -100 ppm to +100 ppm across all ports on the load module.

Receive Feature Specifications

Receive Engine

Wire-speed packet filtering, capturing, real-time latency and inter-arrival time for each packet group, with data integrity, sequence and advanced sequence checking capability

Trackable Receive Flows per Port

25GE/10GE:

  • 32k Minimal Statistics Mode

  • 8k Full Statistics mode

Minimum Frame Size

  • 60 bytes at full line rate
  • 64 bytes at full line rate into the capture buffer
  • 49 bytes at less than full line rate

Filters (User-Defined Statistics, UDS)

2 SA/DA pattern matchers, 2x16-byte user-definable patterns with offsets capability for start of: frame, IP, or protocol. Up to 6 UDS counters are available.

Hardware Capture Buffer per Port or Resource Group

There are two 512MB hardware capture buffers on the card; user can select which port and/or resource group each capture buffer may be assigned for capture purposes.

Statistics and Rates

Link state, line speed, frames sent, valid frames received, bytes sent/received, fragments, undersize, oversize, CRC errors, VLAN tagged frames, 6 user-defined stats, capture trigger (UDS 3), capture filter (UDS 4), 8 QoS counters, data integrity frames, data integrity errors, sequence and advanced sequence checking frames, sequence checking errors, ARP, and PING requests and replies, FEC statistics: RS-FEC Corrected and Uncorrected Block Counts, FEC Corrected Error Bits, FEC Sync.

Latency / Jitter Measurements

Cut-through, store & forward, forwarding delay, up to 16 time bins latency/jitter, MEF jitter, and inter-arrival time.

Receive-side PCS Lanes Port Statistics Counters

PCS Sync Errors, Illegal Codes, Remote Faults, Local Faults, Illegal Ordered Set, Illegal Idle, Illegal SOF, Out Of Order SOF, Out Of Order EOF, Out Of Order Data, Out Of Order Ordered Set.

Time Sensitive Networking (TSN) Support for Time Synchronization (802.1AS, 802.1AS-Rev), Frame preemption (802.3br, 802.1Qbu), Time Aware Shaper (802.1Qb100v)
Layer 2-3 Protocol Support

Routing and Switching

BGP4/BGP4+, OSPFv2/v3, ISISv4/v6, EIGRP/EIGRPv6, RIP/RIPng, BFD, IGMP/MLD, PIM-SM/SSM, STP/RSTP/MSTP, PVST+/RPVST+, Link Aggregation (LACP), LISP

Software Defined Network

OpenFlow, Segment Routing, BGP Link State (BGP-LS), PCEP, VXLAN, EVPN VXLAN, OVSDB, GENEVE, BGP FlowSpec, BGP SR TE Policy

MPLS

RSVP-TE P2P/P2MP, LDP/LDPv6/mLDP, LDP L2VPN (PWE/VPLS), BGP VPLS/VPWS, L3VPN/6VPE, 6PE, BGP RFC3107, MPLS-TP, MPLS OAM,

EVPN/PBB-EVPN, Multicast VPN Rosen Draft, NG Multicast VPN

Broadband and Authentication

PPPoX/L2TPv2, DHCPv4/DHCPv6, ANCP, IPv6 Autoconfiguration (SLAAC), IGMP/MLD, 802.1x

Industrial Ethernet

Link OAM (IEEE 802.3ah), CFM/Y.1731, PBB/PBB-TE, ELMI, Sync-E ESMC, IEEE 1588v2 (PTP)

Data Center Ethernet

DCBX/LLDP, FCoE/FIP, PFC (IEEE 802.1Qbb), TRILL, Cisco FabricPath, SPBM, VEPA

5G RAN Transport eCPRI, TSN, Static MACsec, 1588v2 (PTP)

Application Support

The Ixia application support for Novus25/10GE8SFP28 load module is provided in the following table:

 
Application Support

IxNetwork

Provides wire-rate traffic generation with service modeling that builds realistic, dynamically controllable data-plane traffic. IxNetwork offers the industry's best test solution for functional and performance testing by using comprehensive emulation for routing, switching, MPLS, IP multicast, broadband, authentication, Carrier Ethernet, and data center Ethernet protocols.

IxExplorer

Provides Layer 2-3 wire-speed traffic generation and analysis with HSE PCS Lanes Rx-side testing.

Note: Not all Ixia loads modules support Layer 1 BERT and/or the complete set of Tx PCS Lanes test capabilities.

Tcl API

Allows custom user script development for layer 1-3 testing.

Mechanical Specifications

LED Panel

There are 3 tricolor LEDs per port. The LED panel specifications for Novus25/10GE8SFP28 are provided in the following table.

Speed Mode LED1: TX LED LED2: RX LED LED3: MODE LED

25GE

Link Up (1,2, or 3 links) =Solid Yellow

Link Down (all)=Solid Red

Link Up (all)=Solid Green

Tx Active=Blinking Green

Port Inactive/No Power=Off

Rx Active with Errors=Blinking Red

Rx Active=Blinking Green

Mode=Solid Blue

Card Fault=Solid Red

10GE

Link Down = Solid Red

Link Up (1,2 or 3 links) = Solid Yellow

Link Up (all) = Solid Green

TX Active = Blink Green

Rx Active with Error = Blinking Red

Rx Active = Blinking Green

Mode = Solid Yellow

Card Fault = Solid Red