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    Spirent Paragon

    Keeping time in the Ethernet network

    Real-world test and standards conformance for Ethernet sync

    The Spirent Paragon series provides one box test solutions for Packet Sync, providing optional PTP (1588) Master and Slave emulation and SyncE wander + jitter support for fully controllable protocol and timing test, including industry leading precision for measurements and impairments. Paragon provides complete Standards compliance testing to multiple international synchronisation standards including IEEE, IEC and ITU-T.

    Key features and benefits

    Sync-over-packet standards compliance
    Enables design & verification engineers to prove synchronization standards compliance to the requirements defined in ITU-T standards. Proves performance by supplying all the essential capability & providing the highest measurement integrity and greatest efficiency. Integrated PTP Field Verifier and CAT tools provide instant Pass/Fail results for protocol conformance and timing performance.
    PTP (1588)
    One box Boundary Clock (BC), Transparent Clock (TC) and Ordinary Clock (OC) Test. PTP (1588) Master-Slave Emulation providing an integrated, accurate solution for PTP (1588) devices to standards such as ITU-T G.826x/7x (Telecom Profiles), IEEE 802.1AS/AS-REV (gPTP), IEC/IEEE 61850-9-3 (Utility Profile) and IEEE C 37 238 (Power Profile). In addition to standards-defined test cases, real world time error can be captured in the network and replayed in the lab for troubleshooting and case-by-case performance testing.
    Sync-E
    Prove Sync-E Jitter and Wander to ITU-T G.8262. at 1G-to-100G rates. Fully test hybrid PTP & Sync-E devices. Validate ESMC to ITU-T G.8264.
    Automation with script recorder and Calnex test sequencer
    Fast and easy automation by simple GUI button presses to automatically activate pre-prepared test scripts, or record tcl scripts ‘on-the-fly’, saves days and hours of test development time.

    Time and time error

    This Technical Overview discusses how time is distributed over the network, how Time Error affects network performance, and methods to mitigate Time Error to ensure accurate timing and synchronization throughout the network.

    Jitter & wander in SyncE

    Examining the implications of Jitter and Wander in the SyncE environment. What is Jitter & Wander? The many causes of Jitter & Wander are discussed along with comment on ITU-T standards, and the measurements that must be considered.
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    Prove Ethernet sync at 400GbE

    Spirent Paragon-400G allows full testing of high-speed interfaces to ensure your 400GbE devices and systems deliver the high-quality network services of the future. It supports 26.5625 GBaud PAM-4 SyncE testing to ITU-T G.8262 including Jitter generation and Wander (noise) generation.
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    Spirent Paragon-400G
    Spirent TestCenter Automation

    Multi-clock testing

    Running parallel test, or multi-point measurements in a test network, requires aligning and gathering data from multiple pieces of equipment, which is time-consuming and costly. Paragon-t allows up to 8 simultaneous clock measurements, providing faster, clearer insight and a greatly simplified test bed.
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    What to test

    data sessions

    Deliver synchronization over packet-based networks

    Fully stress-test elements

    Conformance & performance

    Measure recovered time of day

    Includes measuring time error and frequency (MTIE/TDEV) to specified limits (e.g. G.826x/7x)

    QoE Triple Play

    Introduce impairments

    Introduce PTP Time Error Patterns and negative protocol conditions, SyncE Wander and Jitter, and manipulate ToD fields to test device conformance to standards

    Virtualized Networks

    Capture real-world time error and PDV patterns

    Captured over long periods, patterns can be replayed accurately to prove and troubleshoot devices

    High Speed Internet

    Validate Sync-E and ESMC to ITU-T G.8262 and G.8264

    Emulate impairments to fully stress test the network

    mobile signal strength

    Mobile backhaul networks

    Industry’s most complete solution for testing converged mobile backhaul devices and networks

    Suggested products

    Spirent Paragon-neo

    Spirent Paragon-400G

    Spirent Paragon-X
    and Paragon-100G

    Spirent Paragon-t

    Spirent Paragon-400G
    Spirent Paragon-400G
    Spirent Paragon-X and Paragon-100G
    Spirent Paragon-t
    Designed for NEMs developing, verifying and manufacturing devices against enhanced timing standards, and for those designing and deploying 5G networks and systems, Paragon-neo provides PTP and SyncE testing of speeds up to 100G.
    Spirent Paragon-400G helps verify synchronization accuracy and guarantee standards compliance, to ensure 400G devices and systems deliver the high quality network services of the future.
    Paragon-X and Paragon-100G bring together all the measurements needed for the design & verification of Ethernet synchronization devices & networks.
    Paragon-t combines power with versatility, enabling simultaneous clock measurement for parallel device testing (including SECs, EECs, Boundary and Slave clocks) and network chain evaluation, through four independent transmit and measurement ports.
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