California-based Ixia reveals the 400GbE Jumpstart Test System, a piece of networking gear the company claims is the first 400Gb/s high speed ethernet test solution in the world.
Based on the IEE P802.3 protocol, the system provides enough bandwidth to stream 50000 simultaneous HD Netflix video streams according to the Ixia. Either way it is the first to complete a 400GbE interoperability test with platform provider Ciena.
The 400GbE Jumpstart Test System is a developer tool kit to help networking vendors accelerate pre-standard 400GbE networking hardware development. It uses Gen 3 CFP-4 connectors with 4 pairs of fibre, and includes wire rate packet generation at 400Gb/s below the minimum and above the maximum ethernet frame sizes.
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