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Spirent TestCenter™
Platforms
Trusted partner for verifying the
network and cloud evolution
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Appliances & Test Modules Compact Appliances Virtual Solution

VM VM VM VM
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TESTCENTER TESTCENTER vDUT TESTCENTER TESTCENTER

Virtual Switch

Hypervisor

COTs

Spirent’s flexible High-Speed Ethernet TestCenter compact appliances offer TestCenter Virtual delivers a unified
portfolio helps validate Ethernet the power of Spirent’s L2-3 router, testing architecture that ensures full
technologies from 100M to 800G at the switch, application, security, TSN, and compatibility with any TestCenter inter-
highest scale, deepest functionality, and automotive test solutions in a flexible face and enables porting of prior invest-
most costs effective way. and portable form factor. ment in test cases for physical to virtual.

Trusted Performance Decades of experience in network testing, industry-leading hardware and software
platforms proven over multiple generations of network technologies.

Unparalleled Flexibility TestCenter platforms can interoperate and cooperate in a single test to tailor test
infrastructure to deliver optimal results without breaking the budget.

Industry Leadership 100% of the world’s top Service Providers, network and device vendors use Spirent.

Ethernet Test & Validation Solutions

High-Speed Ethernet Automotive Time-Sensitive Networking

Launch products and services quickly Bring automotive devices and networks Easily test and validate TSN
and with confidence, while ensuring a to market faster while meeting the implementations to meet critical
reliable, high-quality user experience. highest standards for performance timing and safety requirements.
and reliability.
• High flexibility with support for • Conformance and performance
more interfaces and protocols • R&D testing: Technology feasibility testing in a single hardware
across several multi-speed test studies and performance modeling platform over a variety of
modules and appliances • Device & protocol functional testing interfaces and speeds
• Support for 800, 400, 200, 100, 50, (10M to 400G)
• Conformance & certification testing
40, 25, and 10G, and various types • Emulate TSN and non-TSN capable
of small form-factor pluggables • Device, sub-system, or services
performance characterization and end-points to create realistic
• Extreme scalability with the ability network environments with
availability
to customize solution with evolving multiple connections, domains and
testing needs (industry’s highest • Stress testing requiring higher device different traffic profiles
number of ports per test) and traffic emulation scaling
• Device benchmarking • Real-time capture and analysis
• Lowest cost of ownership per port

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Hardware Portfolio

APPLIANCES

B2 & B3 – 800G Validation

Industry’s first and highest density QSFP-DD
and OSFP test appliances for large capacity
testing, with 4 and 8-port variants

A1 – 400G Validation A2 – 400G Validation

Industry’s highest density QSFP-DD platform with 16 400G High-density QSFP-DD platform, best value to performance for software,
ports per 2U appliance, offering 2x density advantage system, scale testing, offered in a 2U appliance with 8 & 16-port variants

PX3 – 400G Validation DX3 – 400G Validation

Protocol Scale Data Density

TEST MODULES

DX3 — Data Density PX3 — Protocol Scale

High port density test modules designed to verify High port density test modules with higher control &data plane scale
the highest scale cloud data center fabrics for performance, stress & industry standard benchmark tests�

FX3 — Flexible Functionality MX3 — Multiprotocol Performance

Broad feature set test modules with powerful emulation capabilities Highest performing test modules to realistically emulate entire cities
for testing enterprise, service provider & data center networks for core network and converged multi-play devices and services

COMPACT APPLIANCES M1 Appliance

Layer 2–3 traffic testing in a 2U form

factor, powerful network emulation
and application layer protocols

C2 Appliance C1 Appliance

Layer 2-7 testing, in a compact, Entry-level layer 2-7 testing

portable 2U form factor in a 2U form factor

CHASSIS
SPT-N12U Mainframe Chassis SPT-N4U Compact Chassis
Next-generation platform, scales to the Smallest chassis form-factor
highest port counts and test traffic rates in with innovative time- and
the industry, any module in any slot—no money-saving capabilities
chassis slot restrictions.

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TestCenter Virtual
Optimize the performance and scale of network services and
infrastructure deployed in public, private, or hybrid clouds.
• Layer 2-7 test and measurement with comprehensive
emulation protocols
• Flexible deployment scenarios with support for a wide
range of virtualization and cloud platforms
• Seamless integration with rich API support
• Portable test cases from hardware to virtual

TestCenter Software
Layer 2-7 test solutions to accelerate test cycles and
time to market for higher quality products and services,
customizable to evolving testing needs.

Reduce testing complexity, improve efficiency with

actionable analytics, intuitive reporting, and flexibility to
visualize the dynamic behavior of systems under test.

Automation
Whether developing scripts in Tcl, Perl, or Python for a
complex regression environment, or focusing on script re-
use and portability across platforms and teams, or looking
to speed up repetitive manual tasks, TestCenter offers:
• Multiple ways to automate in diverse environments,
including HLTAPI and Robot Framework
• Easy integration with Spirent iTest, Velocity, or
TTworkbench for test creation and orchestration.

Enabling the Ecosystem for Next-Generation Data Rates

Network and cloud evolution requires flexible, high-density test solutions to validate the next generation of routers and data center
fabrics to ensure reliability, performance, and interoperability.

Spirent continues to lead the industry in Ethernet test and validation, bringing innovative test solutions to market first, to enable the
Ethernet ecosystem to fulfill next generation networking needs.

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