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Datasheet
E1, PTP, Jitter, Wander, Datacom and VF

ALBEDO Ether.Genius
Ether.Genius is and hybrid TDM and Ethernet / IP generator and

C O N F I D E N T I A L
Type Pulse Mode Max Level Min Level Duty cycle
analyser. It comes with optional synchronization (jitter and 1544 kHz Square Endpoint 5 Vpp 500 mVpp 40-60%
wander) testing capabilities. Ether.Genius is suitable for testing 2048 kHz Senoidal Monitor 0.5 Vpp 100 mVpp 40-60%
in environments where packet switching has not totally re-
1544 kb/s20 AMI HDB3 Endpoint G.703 40-60%
placed legacy circuit switching technology, like in some cellular 48 kb/s -12 dB (line)
networks. As Gigabit Ethernet tester, Ether.Genius offers mult- Monitor -20 dB 40-60%
istream Ethernet traffic generation and analysis over dual elec- Square Endpoint 5 Vpp 1 Vpp 45-55%
10 MHz
trical and optical interfaces up to 1 Gb/s, RFC 2544 and eSAM Senoidal Monitor 1 Vpp 100 mVpp 45-55%
(ITU-T Y.1564) tests and advanced quality of service testing. As
a TDM tester it includes BER tests, add&drop to datacom inter- 2. Ethernet
face, extensive error and alarm analysis and jitter/wander test. 2.1 Ethernet PHY
• Supported interfaces (SFP): 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 100BASE-FX,
1000BASE-T, 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, 1000BASE-ZX
1. Test • Supported interfaces (RJ-45 ports): 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T.
1.1 Connectors • On / off laser control for optical interfaces
• Operation over two Gigabit Ethernet physical interfaces (Port A, Port B) Auto-Negotiation
based either on SFPs or RJ45 connectors • Negotiation of bit rate. Allow 10 Mb/s, allow 100 Mb/s, allow 1000 Mb/s
• Port C: Unbalanced (BNC) 75 Ω / balanced (RJ45) 120 Ω • Negotiation of Master and Slave roles in the 1000BASE-T interface
• Smart Serial universal datacom connector for the DTE and DCE (all data- • Ability to disable auto-negotiation and force line settings
com interfaces)
• Analogue voice freq. audio port Power over Ethernet
• RF input over SMA female connector for GPS and GLONASS connections • PoE (IEEE 802.3af-2003) and PoE+ (IEEE 802.3at-2009) detection
• PoE interfaces: 10BASE-T, 100BASE-T and 1000BASE-TX through at-
1.2 Operation Modes tached RJ-45 ports A and B
• Ethernet Endpoint operation: The equipment generates and receives • PoE pass-through when the equipment is configured in transparent
Ethernet PCS codes and Ethernet frames (through) operation mode
• IP Endpoint operation: The equipment genera/receives IPv4 datagrams
• Through operation: Traffic is forwarded between port A and port B 2.2 Synchronous Ethernet
• Ethernet L1 Endpoint operation: The equipment generates PCS codes and • Supported interfaces: 100BASE-TX and 1000BASE-T through the at-
L1 BER measurement patterns tached RJ-45 ports. 1000BASE-SX, 1000BASE-LX, 1000BASE-ZX and
• E1 modes: E1 monitor, E1 endpoint, E1 mux, E1 demux, E1 through, ana- 1000BASE-BX through external SFP
logue Operation
• Datacom modes: Datacom endpoint, Datacom monitor • Analysis of synchronous Ethernet signal in Ethernet endpoint, IP End-
1.3 Clock References point and Through modes, generation of synchronous Ethernet signal in
• Internal time reference better than ±2.0 ppm. Optional internal refer- Ethernet endpoint and IP Endpoint modes. Transparent synchronous
ence better than ±0.2 ppm Ethernet pass-through in Through mode
• Ethernet input through Port A or Port B over any valid electrical / optical • Configuration of internal, external or recovered clock in Ethernet i/f
synchronous Ethernet interface • Fixed freq. offset generation on transmitted signals with max value of
• 10 MHz, 2048 Mb/s, 2048 MHz, 1544 Mb/s, 1544 MHz input through Port ±125 ppm (res. 0.001 ppm) as per ITU-T O.174 (11/2009) 8.2.1.
C (balanced or unbalanced) or through DTE port (balanced interface, • Sinusoidal wander generation on Ethernet interfaces following ITU-T
RJ-48 connector adapter) O.174 Amendment 1 sections 8.4.2.1 and 84.2.2 and ITU-T O.174
• One-pulse-per-second (1 pps) synchronization input through DTE port (11/2009) section 8.4
(balanced interface, RJ-48 connector adapter) • Generation, decoding and transparent forwarding (Through mode) of
• 2048 kHz reference output through Port C (balanced or unbalanced), the ESMC and the SSM code carried in transmission and reception of
1 pps through DTE port (balanced interface, RJ-48 connector adapter) “hear-beat” and event SSM messages is subject to ITU-T G.8264 clauses
• GNSS reference input based on built-in GPS / GLONASS receiver 11.3.2.1 and 11.3.2.2
• QL to be transported by the SSM is encoded as specified in ITU-T G.781
clauses 5.5.2.1 (Option I), 5.5.2.2 (Option II) and 5.5.2.3 (Option III)

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Analysis • Selection based on the next header field value

C O N F I D E N C I A L
• Measurement of the line freq. (MHz), freq. offset (ppm) and freq. drift • Selection by DSCP value
(ppm/s) as specified in ITU-T O.174 (11/2009) clause 10 UDP Selection
• TIE / MTIE / TDEV measurement on Ethernet interfaces following ITU-T • Selection by UDP port. Either as a single value or a ranges
O.172 clause 10
• Decoding of the QL transported in SSM as per ITU-T G.781 clauses 2.9 PHY Results
5.5.3.1 (Option I), 5.5.3.2 (Option II) and 5.5.3.3 (Option III)
Cable Tests
2.3 Ethernet MAC • Optical power measurement (transmitted and received power) over com-
• Frame formats: DIX, IEEE 802.1Q, IEEE 802.1ad patible SFP transceivers
• Support for Jumbo frames with MTU up to 10 kB • Inactive links: Open/short fault indication and distance to fault in metres
• Setting of source and dest. MAC addresses. dest. addresses can be config- (accuracy: 1 m, range 100 m)
ured as a single value or as a range • Active links: current local port MDI / MDIX status, .cable wiring (straight,
• Setting of the Type / Length value crossed), polarity (pos/neg) pair skew (1000BASE-T only), crosstalk
• Configuration of the VID and priority codepoint in VLAN modes Auto-Negotiation
• In Q-in-Q / IEEE 802.1ad modes, configuration of the S-VLAN VID, DEI • Bit rate and duplex mode
and priority codepoint. Config. of the C-VLAN VID and priority codepoint • Master / slave role in 1000BASE-T interfaces
• Configuration of the frame size
SFP
2.4 MPLS • SFP presence, current interface, vendor, and part number
• MPLS generation and analysis in IP Endpoint mode. MPLS analysis in IP
through mode Power over Ethernet
• Support of a single and double label stack (Top and Bottom labels). La- • Type of PoE: PoE (IEEE 802.3af), PoE+ (IEEE 802.3at), none
bel formatting follows RFC 3032 • PoE voltage between pairs 1-2 / 3-6 and 4-5 / 7-8 in endpoint test. Volt-
• Configuration of the TTL, traffic class and label value for Top and Bottom age and current in pairs 1-2 / 3-6 and 4-5 / 7-8 in through mode
MPLS headers 2.10 Frame Analysis
2.5 IPv4 • Support of local one-way (port A-port B) and two-way (port A-port A)
• Configuration of source and dest. IPv4 addresses test modes
• Destination addresses can be configured as a single value or as a range • Separate traffic statistics for Port A and B
• Configuration of DSCP CoS labels, TTL and transport protocol Ethernet Statistics
• If transport protocol is UDP, support of UDP frame with source and dest. • Frame counts: Ethernet, VLAN, IEEE 802.1ad frames, Q-in-Q frames, con-
port configuration trol frames, pause frames
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2.6 Traffic Generator • Frame counts: unicast, multicast and broadcast

• Generation over 8 independent streams. Each stream has its own specif- • Basic error analysis: FCS errors, undersized/oversized frames, jabbers
ic bandwidth profile and payload / pattern configuration • Frame size counts: 64 or less, 65-127, 128-255, 256-511, 512-1023,
1024-1518, 1519-1522, 1523-1526 and 1527-MTU bytes
Bandwidth Profiles
• Generation modes: Continuous, Periodic burst, Ramp and Random MPLS Statistics
• MPLS stack length: min, max
Test Patterns and Payloads
• Layer 2-4 BER test patterns: PRBS 2 11-1, PRBS 2 15-1, PRBS 2 20-1, PRBS IP Statistics
223-1, PRBS 231-1 along with their inverted versions and user (32 bits) • Packet counts: IPv4 packets, IPv6 packets
These patters apply to stream 1 only • Packet counts: unicast, multicast and broadcast
• Test payload for SLA tests • UDP packets, ICMP packets
• All zeros test pattern • IPv4 errors, IPv6 errors
• NCITS TR-25-1999 RPAT, JPAT and RPAT for L1 BER tests • UDP errors
• IEEE 802.3, Annex 36A HFPAT, LFPAT, MFPAT, LCRPAT, SCRPAT for L1 BERT Bandwidth Statistics
2.7 Event Insertion • Ethernet traffic statistics expressed in bit/s, frame/s and a percentage of
the nominal channel capacity
• Insertion of TSE, FCS errors, Undersized frames, IPv4 checksum errors • Unicast, multicast and broadcast traffic figures in frame/s units
• Insertion modes: Single, burst, rate and random • IPv4 and IPv6 statistics (frame/s, bit/s and percentage)
2.8 Filter • UDP traffic (frame/s, bit/s and percentage)
• Up to 8 simultaneous filters can be applied to the traffic SLA Statistics
• The equipment supports a generic filter which can select frames by us- • Multistream SLA analysis
ing a 16 bit mask and an arbitrary offset defined by the user • Delay statistics: ITU-T Y.1563 FTD (current, min, max, and mean values)
Ethernet Selection • Delay variation statistics: ITU-T Y.1563 FTD (std dev), ITU-T Y.1563 FDV
• By source and dest. MAC. Selection of MAC sets with masks (peak), RFC1889 / RFC 3393 jitter (curr, max, mean values)
• By Type / Length value with selection mask • Frame loss: ITU-T Y.1563 FLR
• By C-VID and S-VID with selection mask • Duplicated packets, out -of -order packets (RFC 5236)
• By service and customer priority codepoint value with selection mask • Availability statistics: SES and ITU-T Y.1563 PEU
MPLS Selection BER
• Separated filters to account for the top and bottom MPLS headers • Bit error count, seconds with errors, bit error ratio (BER)
• Filtering by label value • Pattern losses, pattern loss seconds
• Filtering by traffic class Network Exploration
IPv4 Selection • Top talkers statistics: Displays the 16 most common source
• Selection by IPv4 source or dest. address. It is possible to select address MAC / IPv4 / IPv6 addresses
sets by using masks • Top VID (IEEE 802.1Q) or C-VID (IEEE 802.1ad): Displays the 25 most com-
• Selection by protocol mon VID / C-VID tags
• Selection by DSCP value 2.11 Automatic Tests
IPv6 Selection • The equipment supports automatic normalized tests defined in IETF
• Selection by IPv6 source or dest. address (or both at the same time). RFC 2544 and ITU-T Y.1564 (eSAM)
• It is possible to select address sets by using masks • Support of local one-way (port A - port B)
• Selection by IPv6 flow label • Support of two-way (port A - port A) tests

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• Support of Ethernet and IP test modes
IETF RFC 2544 Test
• Support of RFC-2544 throughput, frame-loss, latency, back-to-back and
recovery time tests
eSAM Test
• Testing of up to eight services (non-colour aware mode) or up to four
services (colour aware mode)
• Configuration of the CIR and EIR for each service
• Configuration tests (CIR, EIR and policing) with FTD, FDV, FLR results for
each service
• Performance test with FTD, FDV, FLR, availability results for all services
2.12 Port Loopback
• Layer 1-4 loopback
• Loop frames matching current filtering conditions or loop all frames in
layer 2-4 loopbacks
• Loop controls for broadcast and ICMP frames.
2.13 Ping and Trace-route
• Generation of on demand ICMP echo request (RFC 792) messages with
custom dest. IP address, packet length and packet generation interval
• Analysis of ICMP echo reply (RFC 792) messages with measurement of
round trip time and lost packets
• Analysis of ICMP Time-To-Live Exceeded and ICMP Port unreachable re-
plies received in the trace-route test
2.14 PTP / IEEE 1588
• Support of hardware-assisted decoding of Precision Time Protocol (PTP)
as defined in IEEE 1588-2008
• Operation: IEEE 1588-2008 transparent, non-intrusive monitoring in
Ethernet Endpoint, IP endpoint and Through modes
• Operation and equipment connection to the network is as any IEEE 1588
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Ordinary Clock. Both Master and Slave emulation are supported in end-
point mode
• Support of multicast and broadcast addressing models and end-to-end
and peer-to-peer path delay mechanisms
• Encapsulations: PTP over UDP over IPv4 as defined in IEEE 1588-2008
Annex D, PTP over IEEE 802.3 / Ethernet in IEEE 1588-2008 Annex F
Results
• Presentation of peer clock details: Master identity, Grandmaster identi-
ty, Grandmaster priority 1, Grandmaster priority 2, Grandmaster clock
class, Grandmaster clock accuracy, Grandmaster clock variance, Grand-
master time source
• TX and RX PTP frame counts classified by frame type: Sync, Delay re-
quest, Delay response, Peer delay request, Peer delay response, Follow
up, Peer delay response follow up, Announce, Signaling, Management
• Sync message packet delay
• Delay variation statistics: Current, max, min, avg, std. dev and range of
the delay. Current, max and avg Sync packed delay variation
• Sync Inter Packet Gap analysis: min, max and avg and current
• Delay request message delay statistics: current, min, max, avg, std dev
and range
• Round trip delay computed with path delay mechanism: Current and
mean values
• Floor delay packet metrics as specified in ITU-T G.8260: Floor packet
count (FPC): min and current. Floor packet rate (FPR): min and current
Floor packet percent (FPP): min and current
• Wander metrics: TIE (ITU-T G.8260 pktfilteredTIE), MTIE (ITU-T G.8260
pktfilteredMTIE) and TDEV (ITU-T G.8260 pktfilteredTDEV)
2.15 Protocols
• ARP (IETF RFC 826)
• DNS (IETF RFC 1034, RFC 1035)
• DHCP (client side) (IETF RFC 2131)
• Trace-route application using UDP
3. ITU-T G.703 / E1
3.1 Line
• Configurable input impedance: nominal line impedance, PMP 20 dB,
PMP 25 dB, PMP 30 dB, high impedance (> 1000 Ω)
• Configurable output freq. offset within ±25,000 ppm around the nomi-
nal frequency
• Line codes: HDB3, AMI
• Input Level: From 0 dB to -45 dB
• Pulse mask compliance: ITU-T G.703
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• Jitter compliance: ITU-T G.823
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3.2 Frame
• 2048 kb/s unframed, ITU-T G.704, ITU-T G.704 CRC, ITU-T G.704 CAS,
ITU-T G.704 CRC + CAS
• Generation of custom NFAS spare bits (ITU-T G.704 frame with CRC-4
multiframe)
• CAS A, B, C, D bit generation for each voice channel. Generation of CAS
multiframe spare bits (ITU-T G.704 frame with CAS multiframe)
3.3 Test Patterns and Signals
• PRBS 9 (ITU-T O.150, O.153), PRBS 11 (ITU-T O.150, O.152, O.153),
PRBS 15 (ITU-T O.150, O.151), PRBS 20 (ITU-T O.150, O.153), PRBS 23
(ITU-T O.150, O.151), PRBS 9 inverted, PRBS 11 inverted, PRBS 15 invert-
ed, PRBS 20 inverted, PRBS 23 inverted, All 0, All1
• User configurable 32 bit word
• Tone (from 10 Hz to 4000 Hz, from +6 dBm to -60 dBm)
• External signal: Analogue, 64 kb/s G.703 / E0, data communications i/f
3.4 Analysis
• Analogue: Line attenuation (dB), freq. (Hz), freq. dev (ppm), round trip
delay (μs). Analogue results include pass / fail indications
• Defects: LOS, LOF, AIS, RAI, CRC-LOM, CAS-LOM, MAIS, MRAI, LSS, All0,
All1
• Anomalies: Code, FAS error, CRC error, REBE, MFAS error, TSE, Slip.
• Live and history LEDs for all Defects and Anomalies
• ITU-T G.821 performance: ES, SES, UAS, DM. ITU-T G.821 results include
pass / fail indications
• ITU-T G.826 performance: ES, SES, UAS, BBE (near and far end statistics).
ITU-T G.826 results include pass / fail indications
• ITU-T M.2100 performance: ES, SES, UAS, BBE (near and far end statis-
tics). ITU-T M.2100 results include pass / fail indications
• ITU-T G.711 occupation map and time slot analysis: max code, min code,
avg code, time slot level and freq.
• CAS A, B, C, D bit analysis
• Drop to external output: Analogue, 64 kb/s codirectional, data commu-
nications interface
• Latency test: Either two-way or one-way test assisted with
GPS / GLONASS
3.5 Event Insertion
• Physical: AIS, LOS
• Frame: FAS error, CRC error, MFAS error, REBE, LOF, MAIS, CAS-LOM, RAI,
MRAI, CRC-LOM
• Pattern: TSE, Slip, LSS, All 0, All 1
• Insertion modes: Single (anomalies), rate (anomalies), continuous (de-
fects), burst of M (defects), M out of N (defects)
3.6 Jitter and Wander Generation Function
• Modulation waveform: sinusoidal
• Modulation freq. range: 1 μHz to 100 kHz
• Modulation freq. resolution: 0.1 Hz (jitter), 1 μHz (wander)
• Modulation amplitude: 0–1000 Uipp. max depends on modulation freq
• Modulation amplitude resolution: 1 mUIpp or 1/10 4 configured value.
• Modulation amplitude accuracy: better than O.172
• Smooth amplitude changes in jitter range (10 Hz – 100 kHz)
• Intrinsic jitter < 10 mUIpp
3.7 Jitter Analysis Function
• Closed loop phase measurement method. Reference freq. not required.
• Modulation freq. range: 0.1 Hz to 100 kHz (locking time 10 s), 1 Hz to
100 kHz (locking time 1 s), 10 Hz to 100 kHz (locking time < 1 s)
• Modulation amplitude: 0 to 1000 UIpp (single range) (max amplitude
depends on modulation frequency)
• Modulation amplitude resolution: 1 mUIpp
• Measurement accuracy: better than ITU-T O.172
• Jitter measurement results: peak to peak jitter, RMS jitter, max jitter
(user reseteable), hits detection and count (user selectable threshold).
• Jitter measurement observation time: 1 s, 10 s, 60 s.
• Measurement selectable filters: LP (f < 100 kHz), LP+HP1
(20 Hz < f < 100 kHz), LP+HP2 (18 kHz < f < 100 kHz), LP+RMS
(12 kHz < f < 100 kHz)
3.8 Wander Analysis Function
• Open loop measurement method. Reference freq. required
• Modulation freq. range: 1 μHz to 10 Hz
• Wander sampling frequency: 50 Hz
• Modulation amplitude: 0 to ±2 s (single range)
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• Modulation amplitude accuracy: 2 ns • Event detection and insertion: LOS, AIS, FAS, RAI (yellow), LSS, ALL0,

C O N F I D E N C I A L
• Instantaneous: TIE, freq. offset, freq. drift ALL1, Slip, TSE
• Statistics results: TIE, MTIE, TDEV • BER and ITU-T G.821 performance test
• Statistics range: 102, 10 3, 104, 105, 10 6 s • Latency test: Either two-way or one-way test asisted with GPS/GLONASS
• Built in, real time statistics analysis
8. Analogue Test
3.9 Pulse Mask Analysis • Tone Generation (from 10 Hz to 4000 Hz, from 0 dBm to -60 dBm)
• Operation modes: Eye diagram or continuous run • Level and frequency
• Measurement of pulse width, rise time, fall time, level, overshoot and • ITU-T G.711 analysis: max code, min code, avg code
undershoot (positive and negative pulses)
• Pass / fail indication for compliance with ITU-T G.703 E1 mask 9. User Interface
• Direct configuration and management in graphical mode using the key-
4. ITU-T G.703 / E0 board and display of the instrument
4.1 Connector • Remote access for configuration and management in graphical mode
• Balanced (RJ-45) 120 Ω. from remote IP site thought the patform Ethernet interfacel
• File management and download through web interface
4.2 Features
• Bit rate N x 64 kb/s (N from 1 to 4) 10. Platform
• Test pattern generation and analysis over co-directional interfaces • Operation time with batteries (LiPO): 8 - 10 hours
• Defect insertion and analysis: LOS, AIS, LSS, All 0, All 1 • Battery recharge time (LiPO): 4 hours
• Anomaly insertion and analysis: TSE, Slip • Operational range: -10ºC to +50ºC
• Latency test: Either two-way or one-way test assisted with • Operation humidity: 10% - 90%
GPS / GLONASS • IP rating: 54
• Configuration and report storage and export through attached USB port
5. Data Communications • TFT colour screen (480 x 272 pixels)
5.1 Connectors • Dimensions: 223 mm x 144 mm x 65 mm
• Smart Serial universal datacom connector for the DTE and DCE (all i/f) • Weight: 1.2 kg (with rubber boot)
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5.2 Interfaces
• V.24/V.28 asynchronous (RS-232) from 50 b/s to 128 kb/s
• V.24/V.28 synchronous (RS-232) from 50 b/s to 128 kb/s
• X.21/V.11 from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
• V.35 from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
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• V.36 (RS-449) from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s

• EIA-530 from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
• EIA-530A from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
5.3 Tests
• Operation: DTE emulation, DCE emulation and full duplex monitor
• Test pattern generation and analysis over a datacom interfaces
• Logic analyser capability
• Defects: LOC, AIS, LSS, All 0, All 1
• Anomalies: TSE, Slip
• Analogue: Line attenuation (dB), freq. (Hz), freq. dev (ppm)
• Latency test: Either two-way or one-way test assisted with
GPS / GLONASS
6. Frame Relay Monitoring
6.1 Interfaces
• X.21/V.11 from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
• V.35 from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
• V.36 (RS-449) from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
• EIA-530 / EIA-530A from 50 b/s to 2048 kb/s
6.2 Settings
• DLCI
6.3 Events
• Long frames, short frames.
• Alignment errors.
• FCS errors
• Frame abort count
6.4 Statistics
• Bandwidth statistics
• Max. and min frame size
• Frames with FECN, BECN and DE
• Active DLCI list
• LMI frame count
7. IEEE C37.94
• Transmission media follows specifications of IEEE C.37.94 section 7.
• Unframed or framed operation. Frame structure follows IEEE C37.94
section 4.1
• Configurable bit-rate between 64 kb/s and 768 kb/s in steps of 64 kb/s.
• Transmission clock: Recovered or internally synthesized
• Measurement of: frequency, freq. offset, latency and received rate

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