FPGA-Based Testbed for Packet Switch Performance Measurement

Author

Abdo, Ahmad ; Hall, Trevor

Author_Institution

Sch. of Inf. Technol. & Eng., Ottawa Univ., Ont.

fYear

2006

fDate

24-27 April 2006

Firstpage

347

Lastpage

352

Abstract

With the rapid development of optical communications, there are more and more plans to transport data over fiber channel at Gigabits/second line rates (OC-48 and OC-192). In order to take advantage of this tremendous bandwidth, routers and switches vendors need to measure the performance of their new high-speed products with realistic traffic. In this paper, we show a novel architecture of an FPGA-based test-bed, built using a Nios development board from Altera copy, equipped with a Stratix chip. The test-bed can be used to measure layer 2 packet switch performance

Keywords

automatic test equipment; field programmable gate arrays; optical communication equipment; optical fibre communication; packet switching; telecommunication equipment testing; Altera; FPGA-based testbed; Nios development board; OC-192; OC-48; Stratix chip; data transport; fiber channel; optical communications; packet switch performance measurement; Communication switching; Laboratories; Measurement; Optical fiber communication; Optical packet switching; Optical switches; Packet switching; Photonics; Telecommunication switching; Testing; Field Programmable Gate Array; Packet Switch; performance measurement;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference, 2006. IMTC 2006. Proceedings of the IEEE

Conference_Location

Sorrento

ISSN

1091-5281

Print_ISBN

0-7803-9359-7

Electronic_ISBN

1091-5281

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMTC.2006.328469

Filename

4124341