Albedo xGenius | 10Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, 1000/100/10BASE-T, SyncE, T1, E1 and PTP

xGenius is a handheld transmission and synchronization tester equipped with multiple network interfaces and a large capacitive screen. It is light (1.9kg) and very rugged. The unit is able to test Ethernet/IP networks up to 10Gb/s while supporting master/slave Sync-E/PTP emulation. It also has interfaces for T1/E1. Operation modes Performance, Quality and Wander tests at all interfaces and the ability of PTP/SyncE emulation and analysis, while measuring Freq./Phase, PDV metrics, analyse/generate TIE/MTIE/TDEV and TE. A built-in Rubidium clock provides high accuracy in hold-over.

It all depends on time

The instrument is ideal for LTE/TDD/5G deployment because it has EVERYTHING engineers need in IP/Ethernet backhaul and PTP/SyncE synchronization. Field experts do not need to carry several testers with multiple modules to turn up and monitor communication infrastructures.

xGenius is equipped with all of the features you may need or imagine such as Master/Slave PTP emulation up to 10Gb/s, BER, RFC2544, eSAM, Multistream, MPLS, Jitter, Wander, etc. to permit the verification of the transmission layer in those terms of performance and quality required to support critical applications.

Case studies
• (OPERATIONS)’we need to turnup a 10 GbE network for LTE that must be synchronized with PTP. Do we have any compact tester? ‘
• (FINANCE) ‘migration towards SyncE has been decided, so the company doesn’t need to invest in two separate units for asynchronous and SyncE, just a single GbE test instrument’
• (MANAGEMENT) ‘engineers must be ready and able to troubleshoot any technology’
• (ENGINEER) ‘yes boss, we are willing to do it, we just need a good van and a multitech instrument’
• (LAB) ‘prepare a PTP Master/Slave emulator to test the new LTE base station but please verify both internal and external clock reference’
• (POWER) ‘please verify the hi-voltage teleprotection of lines, multiplexers, transformers and generation plant’

Features and Benefits
Built with latest technology it is a light while rugged tester that facilitates many hours of continuous operation.
• Ports: 2SFP+, WIS, 2RJ45, 2BNC, RJ48, 4xSMA
• RFC 2544, eSAM (Y.1564), SLA
• Ext. Clock: 10 MHz, 2048/1544 Mb/s, 2048/1544 MHz, 1 pps
• Int Clock: Rubidium, OCXO, TCXO, GNSS
• Synch: G.8261, G.8262, G.8264
• SyncE MTIE/TDEV measurement & generation
• IEEE 1588v2 support decoding
• PTP master / slave
• PTP wander analysis/generation
• FULL T1/E1 test Jitter/Wander, Pulse
• One-way delay test (GNSS accuracy)
• SNMP/MIB support
• Touchscreen, Mouse, VNC

Platform

Multiport Interfaces
• A:B ports: 2 x SFP/SFP+ (100MbE, 1GbE, 10GbE, 10G WAN)
• A:B ports: 2 x RJ45 (10MbE, 100MbE, 1GbE)
• C:D ports: Balanced 2 x RJ45 (T1/E1)
• C:D ports: Unbalanced 2 x BNC (T1/E1)
• GNSS Port: SMA female
• PPS Ports: 3xSMA female (i/o)

Operation / Results
• Graphic and tabular wander results
• Navigation: by touch screen, keyboard, mouse
• Remote Control: by VNC
• Storage capacity: one week of results
• Export: results in pdf/txt/csv through USB interface or SD card
• Report export to remote host through Ethernet / IP

Ergonomics
• Protection: shock-proof and rubber boot
• Light and easy to carry in a small bag
• Start: Manual / Timed with optional password

Batteries
• T1/E1 operation time = t > 12h
• GbE operation time = t > 10h
• 10GbE operation time = t > 6h

Time / Clocks

Internal Clocks
• Default better than ±2.0 ppm
• OCXO better than ±0.1 ppm
• Rubidium better than ±5.0e-11 (GPS disciplined, warm- up: 600s)

Internal Rubidium clock

Free―run (No GPS)
• Freq. accuracy (7.5 minutes warm up): ± e-9
• Freq. accuracy on shipment (24 h. warm up): ±5.0e-11
• Aging (1 day, 24 hours warm up): ±0.5e-11
• Aging (1 year): ±1e-9

GPS locked
• Time accuracy (24 h. locked): ±50 ns

Hold – over (after 24 h. locked)
• Freq. accuracy: 1.5e-11 / 24h
• Time accuracy: ±100 ns / 2h, ±1.0μs / 24 h

Input Clock References
• Rates: 1.544 Mb/s, 2.048 Mb/s, 1.544 MHz, 2.048 MHz, 10 MHz
• Built-in GPS receiver, 1 pps
• SyncE

Output Clock
• 1.544 MHz, 2.048 MHz, 10 MHz
• 1 pps

SyncE and PTP testing
• PTP profiles: Telecom and Power
• Encapsulations: Ethernet and UDP
• Clock emulation: Master / Slave, Unicast/Multicast, 128 packet/s
• PDV capture, protocol analysis and correction field support

Ethernet PTP Frequency testing
• Floor Delay Population (G.8260): FPC, FPR, FPP
• Wander: Analysis and Generation TIE, MTIE and TDEV (in real time)

Ethernet PTP Phase testing
• Measured at GbE and 1pps interfaces
• Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|), Dynamic (dTE), Constant Time Error (cTE)

1 pps testing
• Wander: TIE, MTIE, TDEV
• Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|)

Synchronous Ethernet
• ESMC / SSM: Generation, decoding and transparent forwarding
• Wander: Analysis/Generation: TIE, MTIE and TDEV (in real time)

Latency/Delay measurements

E1, T1, GbE and 10GbE interfaces
• Round-trip delay (RTD)
• One-way delay (OWD) GNSS assisted

Ethernet PTP (GbE and 10GbE)
• Floor delay packet population, ratio/percentage/count
• Path delay asymmetry
• End-to-end / peer-to-peer path delay mechanisms
• Master-to-slave / Slave-to-grandmaster latency
• PTP packet delay variation test
• Time Error (TE): Maximum (max |TE|), Dynamic (dTE), Constant Time Error (cTE)

Ethernet/IP Testing

8 x independent streams
• Streams: may use individual sour/dest. addresses and bandwidth profile
• Internet Protocol: IPv4 / IPv6 support
• Frames: DIX, VLAN, Q-in-Q, CoS (DSCP/PCP), MPLS, and Jumbo
• IP with UDP or arbitrary protocol
• DHCP for source IP and ARP for destination MAC

Counts et statistics
• Frame counts, IP traffic statistics, and bit rate
• Top ten VLAN, MAC, IPv4 and IPv6 addresses
• QoS: Latency, Delay variation, Loss ratio, SES, Availability, Out-of-Sequence, Duplicated

BER Tests et Patterns
• Traffic generation: Continuous, Burst, Ramp, Random
• PHY layer: RPAT, JPAT, SPAT, HFPAT, LFPAT, MFPAT, LCRPAT, SCRPAT
• Layer 2/4 PRBS: 2e11-1, 2e15-1, 2e20-1, 2e23-1, 2e31-1
• Layer 2/4 PRBS: all inverted versions

Symmetric/Asymmetric RFC-2544
• Throughput
• Latency
• Loss
• Back-to-back
• System Recovery

Symmetric/Asymmetric eSAM (Y.1564)
• Latency, Delay Variation, Loss, and Availability
• Eight / four services (colour/not colour)
• CIR, EIR, max, Througput

Loopback
• L1 – L4 loopback mode
• Traffic filtering by
• Sour/dest MAC/IP/Port
• VLAN, CoS (DSCP/PCP)
• Protocol

PDH / T.Carrier testing

Interfaces
• T1 (ANSI T1.102)
• E1 (ITU-T G.703)
• E0/Co-Directional (ITU-T G.703)

Modes
• Terminal
• Monitor
• High Impedance
• Pass-through
• T1: Framed SF and ESF and unframed Generation/Analysis
• E1: Framed PCM-30 / 31 with/without CRC and Unframed signals
• T1/E1: Display and Edition: all fields, CAS, Pulse Masks, Events
• Channel map: Busy/Free, External Drop/Insert of 64 kb/s co-dir or datacom

Measurements
• BER
• Line/Freq
• Errors/Alarms
• G.821, G.826, M.2100
• VF: tone generation/analysis
• Attenuation, Freq, Freq. deviation, Level, Peak codes

Synchronization
• Jitter analysis: Peak to peak, RMS, hits, count (0.1 to 100 kHz range)
• Wander: Analysis/Generation and masks (1 μHz to 10 Hz range)
• Wander Analysis/Generation in 10 MHz, 2048 kHz, 1544 kHz, 1pps