Clarinet Vseries Application

Presentation

The Clarinet-system is a powerful Protocol Test platform supporting Vseries interfaces and data protocols. It offers a wide variety of functions:
  • Monitoring
  • Automatic simulation
  • Conformance testing for different layers of data protocols based on ISO or NIUF test suites


Large snapshot

The flexibility and the user-friendly interface of the software provides the user with a way to use it for product development, engineering, or field trials.

Standard Features

Interface connection
Analysis Functions
Emulation functions
Signaling simulation
Programmable simulation
Conformance testing simulation
Clarinet-system: basic configuration


Interface Connection

Physical Interface

  • V24/V28
  • V35
  • V36
  • V11/X24

Interface Management

  • Simultaneous management on each interface of three types of PH, SL, DL links:
    • PH physical interface: clock selection V24-114/115, V24-113/115, X24-S, X24-X/S.
    • Signaling link: definition by interface circuit states. BOP or Asynchronous type.
    • Data link: definition by interface circuit states. BOP, SS7, Asynchronous or BERT type.

Analysis Functions

Protocol Event Generation

  • Physical level: interface circuit state transition.
  • Signaling link: HDLC frames or asynchronous characters.
  • Data link: HDLC frames, SS7, BERT-G821 results or asynchronous characters.

Statistics Event Generation

  • BOP type event counters on SL or DL.
  • Data-flow counters on BOP link at different protocol layers.

Protocol Specification for Display

  • Physical Link: clocks; V24/X24 circuits.
  • Signaling Link:
    • Data structure: BOP envelope, Asynchronous characters.
    • Decoding according to a protocol stack with 7 decoding levels
  • Data Link:
    • Data structure: BOP envelope, Asynchronous characters, BERT
    • Decoding according to a protocol stack with 7 decoding levels

Simulation Functions

Hayes/V25bis Signaling Simulation

  • Automatic Behavior
    • Starting delay, number of repetitions and intercommunications delays.
    • Command state duration.
    • Establish time-out.
    • Programmable command sequence in character structure or BOP.
    • Delay for data transmission in the Command state.
  • Manual Commands:
    • Setting of interface circuits.
    • Set-up and clearing of communication in automatic mode.
    • Sequence transmission of SL command.

Data Link Simulation

  • Automatic Behavior
    • Starting delay, number of repetitions and intercommunications delays.
    • DATA state duration.
    • Programmable command sequence in character structure
    • Delay for start of transmission in the data state
  • Manual Commands:
    • Character transmission in the data state
  • Link type
    • BOP-HDLC: X25 and Frame Relay Data simulator
    • User program
    • BERT - Pattern: 29 - 1 (V52), 211 - 1 (O152), 215 - 1 (O151), results according to CCITT G821
    • LOOP

Emulation Functions

Physical Layer

  • Emulation mode: DTE or DCE.
  • Physical level configuration:
    • Clocks V24-114/115, V24-113/115, X24-S, X24-X/S.
    • NRZI encoding.
  • Emulator Configuration:
    • Setting of the interface circuit state (COMMAND and DATA states).

Data Simulation

X25 Automatic Simulation:

  • X25 automatic simulator can be run in DATA state

Frame Relay automatic simulation:

  • Frame Relay automatic simulator can be run in DATA state

IP automatic simulation:

  • IP automatic simulator can be run in DATA state over PPP Layer

Programmable Simulation

API

  • Use of CLARINET-Development C language
  • Microsoft format library.
  • Level N simulation using emulation on signaling channel.

Conformance Testing Simulation

ETS

  • Use of ETS packages resulting from TTCN compilation:
    • Frame Relay
    • X25
  • Template of profiles, PICS/PIXIT
  • Execution under Clarinet Run-time

Clarinet-system: basic configuration

Qty.

Refer.

Product Designation

1

2004

Clarinet-Book USB Vseries

1

8001

Clarinet-Run-time

 

[Home]   [Products]  [Help Notes]  [Technical notes]  [Search]  [Site map]  [PDF Library]  [Contact]

Last modification: 27/02/04