SOLUTION BRIEF
Anue 3500 Synchronization Test Solution
Keeping Pace With Mobile Data
Driven by the use of smartphones and high-bandwidth
applications such as streaming video, mobile data traffic
continues to abound worldwide. As the steadily rising
traffic volumes erode the profitability of traditional flat-rate
pricing plans, service providers are increasingly working to
improve margin by lowering network infrastructure costs.
Strategies include replacing legacy time division
multiplexing (TDM) with Carrier Ethernet to reduce
backhaul costs while increasing scalability. This involves
distributing timing and synchronization to mobile base
stations over new packet switched networks. To maintain
sufficient quality throughout migration, mobile network
operators, carriers, and manufacturers of devices and ICs
used in backhaul and synchronization must ensure that:
Packet-switched networks will deliver accurate and
precise timing
Voice and multimedia services will provide an
acceptable Quality of Experience (QoE) to subscribers
Legacy TDM services can be maintained over next-
generation network (NGN) PSNs
Verifying real-world performance during design and
development prevents dips in quality, slow speeds, and
ultimately, customer churn. The Ixia Anue 3500 provides
the industry's premier Carrier Ethernet test solution
delivering the comprehensive, accurate, repeatable results
needed to validate performance, improve productivity and
optimize cost.
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Ixia Anue 3500: The Industry's Premier Solution
The Ixia Anue 3500 provides an intuitive solution for
validating the performance of synchronization services
and the Carrier Ethernet functions required in next-
generation carrier grade IP-based networks. Two emerging
synchronization technologies Precision Time Protocol
(PTP) and Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) are being
widely implemented, but must be thoroughly tested before
deployment to ensure quality.
The industrys most accurate, feature-rich, and precise
solution for testing Carrier Ethernet synchronization, the
Ixia Anue 3500 equips test and development engineers
with:
Real-world network conditions via standard-based test
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Comprehensive testing solution for Boundary/
Transparent/Slave and SyncE EEC devices
Complete 1588/PTP and CES testing (G.8261, G.8271,
G.8272)
SyncE Wander Tolerance, Transfer, and Generation
Testing (G.8262, G.8264, G.811, G.823, G.824)
Test automation TCL API
Multiple interface support including 100M/1G/10G
Ethernet, T1/E1, 1PPS and others
 SOLUTION BRIEF

Anue 3500 Synchronization Test Solution

Architected for Advantage

The Ixia Anue 3500 delivers far-reaching operational and
bottom-line benefits such as:
Ease of use for faster time to test
Precise reproduction and rapid resolution of field
issues
Real-world testing of critical Carrier Ethernet technologies
includes Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE), IEEE 1588,
PTP, Circuit Emulation Services (CES, IETF SAToP, IETF
CESoPSN, ITU-T Y.1413), MPLS, and Carrier Ethernet OAM.
Its architecture leverages industry-first techniques and
capabilities to deliver diverse advantages to users seeking to
verify performance and reliability.

Increased network reliability for reduced support

costs

Carrier Ethernet Ixia Anue 3500

Testing Requirements Advantages

Faster time to test

Ease of Use Intuitive, real-time graphed analysis
Automatic pass/fail results
Built-in GPS receiver

Many ports and media types (4x BNC, 2x PDH, 4x Ethernet, etc.)
Flexibility Can impair or measure any clock or interface in the system
Hardware architecture allows for future upgrades and expansion

Faster time to market

Simultaneous Testing Greater use case coverage (10G+1G+T1/E1+1PPS+SyncE+PTP)
Supports 5 impairment/capture profiles per port
Multiple independent wander generators and wander measurers

Industry-best precision and accuracy for impairment emulation/generation and

Accuracy measurement/analysis
G.8261 Test Suite: most realistic, easy to use, fully packet rate independent
Only proper low-pass filter settings to properly complete G.8262 testing

26601 Agoura Road, Calabasas, CA 91302 | Tel: 818.871.1800 | Fax: 818.871.1805 | www.ixiacom.com | 915-6565-01 Rev. B, March 2013