Keysight offers AresONE-S 16-port 400 Gigabit Ethernet test system

Feb. 18, 2021
The instrument targets network equipment manufacturers and data center operators who want to validate mixed 400GbE and lower-speed networks and devices using both NRZ and PAM4 modulation.

Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) says it now offers the AresONE-S 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) test system. The instrument targets network equipment manufacturers and data center operators who want to validate mixed 400GbE and lower-speed networks and devices using both NRZ and PAM4 modulation.

The 2RU AresONE-S test system provides 6.4-Tbps load and stress traffic for the detection and debugging of data transmission errors within 400/200/100/50GbE PAM4 and 100/50/40/25/10GbE NRZ applications. Multiple systems can be combined and synchronized to test 25.6-Tbps networking devices and equipment using a single test system. Users also can leverage Keysight’s IxNetwork software application, a Layer 2 and 3 protocol emulation platform that runs end-to-end tests with a wide range of networking protocols and data plane traffic to test network infrastructure performance.

The AresONE-S fixed chassis comes in 16-port and 8-port QSFP-DD configurations. Customers don’t have to buy the full port capacity of either system initially, thus offering a “pay-as-you-grow” approach to fit both current and future test requirements.

“Data center operators are dealing with complex environments containing multiple signaling technologies and Ethernet speeds that continue to evolve,” said Ram Periakaruppan, vice president and general manager, Keysight’s Network Test and Security Solutions group. “AresONE-S doubles the port density of any other 400GbE test platform and delivers the flexibility our customers need to verify their networks and network equipment, while scaling to meet future requirements.”

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