Spirent BPK-1004B Multicast Routing Base Package

Overview

The Multicast Routing Base Package is a Spirent TestCenter component that helps service providers, large enterprises and network equipment manufacturers quickly evaluate and troubleshoot Multicast routing protocols, forwarding behavior, and performance in devices and networks. The base package supports emulation of the most common multicast routing protocols, PIM-SM and PIM-SSM for IPv4 and IPv6 Multicast traffic.

Key Features

• Support for dual-stack IPv4 and IPv6 in all routing emulation and traffic generation
• PIM-SM and PIM-SSM Multicast routers supporting the most common Multicast routing protocols
• Concurrent operation with Unicast routing protocols on each port
• All common attributes are dynamically configurable to build complex topologies
• Multicast Routing Wizard quickly builds hundreds or thousands of emulated routers
• Interactive commands to stop and start individual emulated routers and diagnostic commands
• Interactive commands to flap individual routes or route blocks
• Command Sequencer with TCL scripts for SNMP commands and test automation
• Real-time logging of control-plane message exchange
• Integrated data-plane traffic with wire-rate statistics
• Support for Ethernet, ATM and SONET media types and all associated encapsulations
• Support for L2TP and GRE tunneling on a per router basis

Applications

• Multicast routing protocol testing and validation
• Network equipment testing for service providers
• Performance evaluation in complex network topologies
• IPv4 to IPv6 network migration testing