| Maui and Hawaii Network Emulator Hardware Platform |
The Fibre Channel Network Latency Emulator is available on a 2U rack-mount chassis that supports up to 7 software loads. There are two platforms available:
- The Maui platform supports up to four blades and data rates up to 2.6Gbps.
- The Hawaii platform supports up to two blades and data rates up to 11.3Gbps.
Supported rates
- 1Gbps
- 2Gbps
- 4Gbps
- 8Gbps
- 10Gbps
Delay/Jitter
- Insert from 50us to 250ms of packet delay in 1-bit-time increments with the standard configuration at true full line rate.
- Introduce delay transparently without modifying code words or inter-frame gap.
- Increase maximum latency with a Delay Doubler and Quadrupler (even greater delay amounts are available upon request).
Error
- Set error rates from 10-17 to 10-3.
- Error from 1 bit to 64k bits with all ones, all zeroes, inverting bits or inserting a PRBS.
- Inject errors at a fixed rate (periodic) or randomly with a Uniform, Poisson or Gaussian distribution.
- Error 1 bit, 32 contiguous bits or a 32-bit user-defined error pattern.
- Target specific bytes for error or modification.
Drop
- Set frame-drop rate from every frame to 1 in 64,000 frames.
- Replace dropped frames with idles or repeat the last word.
- Drop frames at a fixed rate (periodic) or randomly with a Uniform, Poisson or Gaussian distribution.
Alarms
- Emulate loss of signal and loss of frame.
Operation
- Configure via a front panel LCD control for standalone operation
- Configure remotely via an Ethernet control port
- Interactive: Browser-based GUI with save/load capability
- Automated: Powerful TCL script library
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