Paragon

Paragon-400G

The new Paragon-400G solution precisely measures 25 GBaud and 50 Gbaud PAM-4 frequency synchronization at 400GbE in accordance with ITU-T G.8262 standards. And, in conjunction with the Calnex Analysis Tool (CAT), you’ll get valuable insight of actual timing performance, whether you are developing, verifying and manufacturing 400GbE devices, or designing and deploying 400G networks and systems.
Full testing of high speed interfaces is essential when qualifying an Ethernet switch or router. That’s because higher interface rates inherently increase the design challenges of keeping jitter and wander noise to a minimum. Consequently, to ensure your 400GbE devices and systems deliver the high quality network services of the future, look no further than the Paragon-400G for verifying synchronization accuracy and guaranteeing standards compliance.

Key Features

• 53.125 and 26.5625 GBaud PAM-4 SyncE measurement 
• Test 400GbE SyncE jitter generation performance to ITU-T G.8262 
• Prove 400GbE Sync wander generation performance to ITU-T G.8262 
• Evaluate MTIE/TDEV Pass/ Fail results to ITU-T G.8262 masks 

Paragon-neo

The Paragon-neo is the latest platform from Spirent, providing PTP and SyncE testing of speeds up to 100GbE. It’s designed to meet the stringent test requirements of NEMs who are developing, verifying and manufacturing devices against enhanced timing standards such as for ITU-T G.8273.2 Class-C/D Boundary Clocks. And for those designing and deploying 5G networks and systems.

Key Features

• PTP Field Verifier (PFV) 
• Conformance Test Application 
• PTP Applications 
• SyncE Applications—ITU-T G.8262.1/G.8262 (Jitter and Wander) 

Spirent Sentinel

Deliver the fast, stable services your customers can rely on through testing 3G/4G/5G and Small Cell deployments at various points in the network, including near to the GrandMaster (GM), and validate network performance to ITU-T limits. Sentinel captures all data simultaneously enabling you to correlate timing performance at different points in the network, even between different timing architectures.

Key Features

• Time Error (TE)
• Time Interval Error (TIE)
• MTIE
• TDEV
• ESMC Quality Levels
• 2wayTE
• Dynamic Time error
• High and low pass filtered
• 2wayTE
• Packet Selected 2WayTE
• SyncE wander
• Packet Delay Variation (PDV)
• Floor Packet Percentage(FPP)
• Frequency Error
• Flexible network connection options:
• As a pseudo T-TSC to measure upstream network synchronization
• As a network monitor measuring live network
• PDV and TE
• Clear Pass/Fail Metrics for easy analysis:
• ITU-T specified masks
• ITU-T, standards-based, vendor-specific limits
• Detailed measurement report in pdf format

Spirent Paragon-X

For Technologies up to 10Gbps, Spirent Paragon-X provides direct insights into actual device and service behavior, in a one-box test solution for Sync-E, PTP, and NTP synchronization mechanisms, as well as E1/T1/ToD sync interfaces and Ethernet OAM. Moreover, the Paragon-X brings together all the measurements you need for the design and verification of Ethernet synchronization devices and networks. With the Paragon-X, proving synchronization performance and quality is now seamless and effortless.

Key Features

•  PTP performance 
•  Sync-E Performance 
•  Ethernet OAM Performance  

Spirent Paragon-t

The Paragon-t’s built-in Calnex Analysis Tool (CAT) ensures that all your measurement results are on hand for fast, easy analysis. The CAT’s multigraph window lets you correlate a variety of measurements and channels simultaneously to quickly characterize and validate system and device behaviour. Plus, it provides pass/fail evaluation to ITU-T standards or user masks.
If you’re looking to rigorously test SECs, EECs, BCs and SCs, the Spirent Paragon-t provides all the frequency, phase, ToD and wander test functions you’ll need. Furthermore, because you can generate wander on up to four interfaces, and make up to 12 precise measurements simultaneously, you’ll save days of test time, greatly increase test coverage, and save on test equipment. That’s real savings, not promises.

Key Features

• Four independent transmit and receive ports to test four separate network devices simultaneously.
• Ideal for system verification, benchmarking, regression test or Proof of Concept.
• Test chains (e.g. Boundary Clocks) that require multiple simultaneous test points.
• Speed up test time and reduce test complexity: multiple ports for 4 x frequency generation, and simultaneous 4 x frequency, 4 x phase and 4 x ToD measurements.
• Supports 1588, SyncE, E1/ T1, 2/10 MHz, 1 pps, ToD.