Test Reports

Cisco commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent performance test of its new Catalyst 9000 family switches. Our report includes the verification of throughput performance for IP packets (IPv4 and IPv6), Ethernet unicast and multicast frames. In addition, the report also contains scalability tests of the IP Forwarding Information Base (FIB) and Ethernet MAC table.

ADVA commissioned EANTC to verify the functionality of various security features and a few performance aspects of ADVA's FSP 150 encryption edge device. We ran a range of tests on the encryption devices, with particular focus on Carrier Ethernet data protection use cases.

Nuage Networks, a Nokia business, commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent test of their SD-WAN solution. EANTC validated the scalability, functional capabilities, reliability and manageability of the Nuage Networks SD-WAN 2.0 solution extensively.

Huawei selected a range of functional aspects from their product portfolio for the verification. EANTC was invited to witness the solution at Huawei's global headquarters in Shenzhen, China, in August 2018. The tests were executed in three different test beds, each focusing on specific aspects of the transport network.

Juniper Networks commissioned EANTC to conduct an independent review of its Contrail SD-WAN solution. EANTC verified a specific set of test cases, which focused on the breadth and depth of Juniper's SD-WAN solution features and capabilities.

Metaswitch commissioned EANTC to verify the scability and integration of their Clearwater IMS Core solution with Cloud Providers such as Amazon AWS or Google Cloud. In addition to this, we emulated a test scenario with a Mobile Network Operator serving up to 20 Million subscribers.

Huawei commissioned us to verify the networking efficiency of their Cloud AI Fabric solution. It includes data center switches and smart network interface cards (NICs) based on 100GigabitEthernet and 25GigabitEthernet. We performed a set of industry-accepted Intel MPI Benchmarks. The results were successfully presented at CeBIT.

EANTC tested advanced aspects of the Cloud-based Broadband Network Gateway (vBNG) with a focus on performance, scalability and high availability with up to 20 Million emulated subscribers. The solution performed very well across all test scenarios. The engagement built on test cases previously executed in February 2017.

We tested the forwarding performance, power efficiency, scalability and functionality of Huawei’s new 4T Line Processing Unit (LPU) in a Huawei NE9000 series router. Once we concluded the performance of the line card, we turned to the control plane. We verified the maximum capacity of FIB and BGP routing entries as well as core router features.

EANTC has started an SD-WAN testing initiative open to any manufacturer of SD-WAN solutions. Vendors have the opportunity to choose their bespoke test package from EANTC’s SD-WAN testing portfolio. For its participation, Huawei chose the following test areas: Scalability, Endpoint and Link Resiliency, and Performance Monitoring.