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What does Keysight do?SANTA ROSA, Calif., March 14, 2019
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS), a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world, announced a joint demonstration of Ixia's AresOne-400 Gigabit Ethernet (GE) test system and the Marvell® Prestera® CX 8580 Ethernet switch at the Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit, March 14-15, 2019. This demonstration, which showcases the maximum performance capabilities of new 400GE, PAM4-based silicon, is the first-of-its-kind full box 400GE test at 12.8 Terabytes per second (Tbps).
"The 400GE ecosystem is rapidly maturing," said Alan Weckel, founding analyst for 650 Group. "The availability of PAM4-based silicon is critical to achieving the performance – throughput, latency and jitter – that 12.8Tbps speeds require. This demonstration illustrates the maturity of the PAM-4 based silicon market over the past 18 months."
The Marvell Prestera CX 8580 switch, a 12.8Tbps, 256x 50G device, is part of a new family of switches from Marvell that offers unprecedented workflow visibility and analytics with its Storage Aware Flow Engine (SAFE) technology and a reduction in network layers leveraging its high radix switch core technology known as FASTER.
"We are excited to showcase our newly announced Marvell Prestera CX 8500 family with a powerful RFC compliant 32x400G demonstration. This feature-rich family leverages the testing capability of Ixia's AresONE test equipment to test the scale, 12.8Tbps, and wide range of packet encapsulations that are supported by the switch pipeline," said Guy Azrad, vice president of engineering, Networking Business Unit and general manager at Marvell Israel. "This collaboration testifies to both organizations' ability to support the design, deployment and testing of the next generation, high-speed network infrastructure that will be needed to keep pace with ever-growing data demands."
"This demonstration highlights the capabilities of the AresONE-400GE test system and the Marvell Prestera CX 8580 switch to support real-world applications in the data center," said Sunil Kalidindi, vice president of product management at Keysight's Ixia Solutions Group. "We are proud to showcase the world's first and only full-box 12.8Tbps 400GE test with Marvell and demonstrate the maturity of our solutions as 400GE rapidly becomes mainstream."
Ixia at Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit
At OCP, Ixia is also demonstrating an 8-port AresOne-400GE system running a 12.8Tbps using 4 separate units chained together to perform as a single 32-port system. The Ixia AresONE-400GE test system enables network equipment providers to test high-port-density devices such as routers, switches and servers for all Ethernet speeds, 400GE/200GE/100GE/50GE, based on the IEEE802.3bs and IEEE802.3cd standards. AresONE is the first high-density 8-port 400GE test system available in a 2 rack-unit (RU) fixed chassis based on 56 Gb/s electrical interface with PAM-4 encoded signaling that supports both OSFP or QSFP-DD pluggable interfaces. AresONE runs IxNetwork, Ixia's field-proven L2-3 network infrastructure performance test solution that scales to business needs.
About Keysight Technologies
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) is a leading technology company that helps enterprises, service providers, and governments accelerate innovation to connect and secure the world. Keysight's solutions optimize networks and bring electronic products to market faster and at a lower cost with offerings from design simulation, to prototype validation, to manufacturing test, to optimization in networks and cloud environments. Customers span the worldwide communications ecosystem, aerospace and defense, automotive, energy, semiconductor and general electronics end markets. Keysight generated revenues of $3.9B in fiscal year 2018. More information is available at www.keysight.com.
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