Spirent Multicast Testing

Comprehensive Multicast Testing with IPv6

Spirent delivers a comprehensive solution for conformance, performance and functional multicast testing, including full support for IPv6. Using our solutions, you can ascertain the functionality, reliability and performance of your multicast offerings to achieve faster deployment with solid reliability and known performance.

Wide Range of Applications

Spirent offers multicast solutions for a variety of users: For NEMs I Product definition I Development test I Quality assurance I Technical marketing For service providers and test labs I Product evaluation I Bake offs I Offline troubleshooting

From initial concept development to final deployment, Spirent has the test solution to help you speed your multicast device or service to market.

Full Range of Protocols

Spirent offers the broadest support of routing protocols for multicast and unicast testing, including IPv6 implementations:
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Easy Multicast Add-Ons

Spirent supports multicast functionality on both AX/4000 and SmartBits platforms. Multicast functionality can be easily added to your existing platform as a software module, with no additional hardware required.

Covering the Product Life Cycle

Spirent delivers multicast test solutions for all stages of the product life cycle, from product definition to deployment:
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IGMP versions 1, 2, 3 (RFCs 1112, 2236, 3376) MLD versions 1 and 2 (RFCs 2710 and draft-vida-mld-v2-07) PIM-SM for IPv4 and IPv6 (RFC 2362 and draft-ietf-pim-sm-v2new-08) PIM-SSM (draft-ietf-ssm-arch03) "Methodology for IP Multicast Benchmarking" (draft-ietfbmwg-mcastm-13)

Selecting the Right Tool

Multicast networks have complex configurations and special management requirements. The multicast network implementation is dependent on successful interaction of several concurrent protocols, some of which are still evolving. The list becomes even longer when IPv6 requirements are added. Performance attributes of your device are equally important, as you will want to model increased loads associated with multicast traffic. To help you develop and deploy multicast networks and services with confidence, Spirent offers the complete solution for IPv4 and IPv6 routing conformance, performance and functional testing.

Conformance testing Functional testing Performance verification

Spirent Performance, Conformance, and Functional Multicast Testing

To learn more about our multicast solutions, visit www.spirentcom.com/multicast or contact your Spirent sales representative

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Conformance Testing
To help you reliably implement the latest versions of multicast protocols, Spirent offers a complete Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) conformance test suite, including:
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Support for both IPv4 and IPv6 multicast routing Support for PIM-SSM (Source Specific Mode)
Spirents Multicast Conformance Test Suites provide a comprehensive series of predefined test cases.

Spirent conformance test suites are currently available for all basic IPv4 and IPv6 routing protocols, including BGP and OSPF. Results include pass/fail statistics, full ladder diagrams and comprehensive protocol decodes. All Spirent conformance test suites can be automated with Tcl. The test suites run on the AX/4000 platform. For details on Spirent conformance testing capabilities, please visit our web site:
<www.spirentcom.com/conformance>

Performance Testing
Spirent multicast solutions for performance testing deliver largescale control and data plane testing to fully stress capacity and performance of your multicast devices and networks. Spirents AX/4000 and SmartBits platforms emulate thousands of end users (IGMP or MLD) or PIM routers. Both solutions can generate wirerate unicast and multicast data streams. IGMP/MLD Scalability Testing SmartBits SmartFlow, SmartWindow (included with SmartBits chassis), and SmartMulticastIP products provide scalable IGMP testing. Additionally, a complimentary MLD test is available on SmartBits. AX/4000 offers a free AX/Flow application to test the performance of IGMP control and data plane testing. Functional and performance multicast testing is supported on both AX/4000 Router Performance Tester 4.6 and SmartBits TRT 4.0. Please contact us for details on the multicast implementation on these two platforms.

Test Automation and GUI

Spirent multicast solutions include intuitive user interfaces. The tests can be fully automated using Spirent APIs or scripting tools. In addition, you can save your GUI test configurations as script files to greatly simplify the automation process.

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Functional Testing
Spirent offers a complete solution to validate the operation and interaction of multicast and unicast protocols. We deliver:
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Full support for multicast routing protocols PIM-SM and PIM-SSM Multiple test points First Hop Routers (FHRs), Rendezvous Points (RPs), and Last Hop Routers (LHRs) Full support for end station registration protocols (IGMP versions 1,2, and 3 and MLD versions 1 and 2)

MB-BASE-SW SmartWindow and other SmartBits Base Applications SWF-1201A SmartFlow (IGMP Testing) SWF-1204A SmartMulticastIP (Performance Testing) SWF-1236A Multicast Routing Emulation for TRT 401585 Multicast Routing Emulation for the AX/4000 404687 MLD Conformance Test Suite 404688 PIM-SM Conformance Test Suite for IPv4 404689 PIM-SM Conformance Test Suite for IPv6 Complimentary AX/Flow for AX/4000 (IGMP Testing) Complimentary scripts for TRT (MLD Testing)

To Learn More
Spirent Multicast Emulation with real-time decodes enables deep functional testing.

Visit Spirents Web site at <www.spirentcom.com/multicast> to download the Multicast Routing: PIM Sparse Mode and Other Protocols white paper and to find out more about our multicast solutions. Or contact your sales representative to schedule a demonstration.

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