Xcellon-Multis® QSFP28 Enhanced 100/50/25GE Load Module

Introducing the Evolution of Xcellon HSE Testing

100GE QSFP28 With Multi-Rate Ethernet Capability is Here to Stay!

Bandwidth requirements for enterprises, service providers, and global data centers are growing rapidly, out-pacing 10GE and 40GE technologies. Cloud service providers, carriers, and hyperscale data centers are looking at highdensity 100GE, 50GE, and 25GE networking infrastructure solutions to meet growing bandwidth demands. Equipment manufacturers are rapidly increasing 100GE port densities and delivering multi-rate switch ports to remain competitive. With Ixia’s support of native QSFP28 interface technology, equipment manufacturers can use Ixia’s high-density 100/50/25GE load module to assist the move to higher density 100GE, with four 100GE ports per blade and up to 16x25GE speed links. For data centers, native QSFP28 100GE, 50GE, and 4x25GE speed support provides a more efficient use of network bandwidth, and new multi-rate test requirements have emerged for testing 100GE, 50GE, and 25GE on the same port.

Xcellon-Multis is Ixia’s next-generation architecture and test solution that provides the world’s first 100/50/25GE multirate test system to satisfy equipment maker test needs ranging from basic interoperability and functional test, to high-port count performance tests. As organizations implement this same high-density, high bandwidth networking and network computing equipment in their own networks, they need this same test solution to verify performance and functionality prior to deployment.

Highlights

• Do more with less: more ports, speeds, bandwidth, flexibility, capability, and horsepower in a single highdensity test load module

• Cost effective: Allows testing of 100GE, 50GE, and 25GE on the same test load module 

• Support for: 1x50GE, 4x25GE, and 2x25GE speed capability per port over 100GE passive, copper and fiber point-to-point and fan-out cable media

• Excellent test platform: for the new 100GBASE- SR4, 100GBASE-CR4, Auto-Negotiation, FEC, and  Link Training interoperability, functional and performance testing 

Ordering Information

Load module

944-1117

Xcellon-Multis XM100GE4QSFP28+ENH 100-Gigabit Ethernet, Enhanced load module, 1-slot with 4ports of the native QSFP28 physical interface with L2-7 support, and enhanced support of Ethernet Forward Error Correction (RS-FEC), Auto-negotiation and Link Training. The load module is compatible with the XGS2-SD 2-slot, 3RU standard performance rack-mountable chassis bundle (940-0010), XGS12-SD 12-slot, 11RU standard performance rack-mountable chassis bundle (940-0011), XGS2SDL 2-slot, 3RU standard performance rack-mountable chassis bundle (940-0013), XGS12-SDL 12slot, 11RU standard performance rack-mountable chassis bundle (940-0015), XGS2-HSL 2-slot, 3RU high performance rack-mountable chassis bundle (940-0014), and XGS12-HSL 12-slot, 11RU high performance rack-mountable chassis bundle (940-0016).

Optional: QSFP28 passive, copper, Direct Attach Cable (DAC), 3-meter length (942-0088) and/or QSFP28 Active Optical Cable (AOC), multimode fiber, 850nm, 3-meter length (942-0092). Support for the 4x25GE and 2x25GE speed option may be purchased with the module using XM-4x25GE FACTORY INSTALLED option (905-1004) or purchased for upgrade in the field using UPG-XM-4x25GE FIELD UPGRADE option (905-1005).

25GE and 50GE speed options

2x25GE and 4x25GE load module options

905-1004

XM-4x25GE, this is the 4x25GE FACTORY INSTALLED option for the Xcellon-Multis QSFP28 XM100GE4QSFP28+ENH 100GE load module (944-1117). This enables 4x25GE and 2x25GE capability on all four 100GE QSFP28 ports on the module. The 25GE capability is ONLY supported on the XM100GE4QSFP28+ENH load module (944-1117). Note1: This option is REQUIRED FOR NEW PURCHASES of the 4x25GE and 2x25GE capability for the Xcellon-Multis XM100GE4QSFP28+ENH load module with native QSFP28 4x100GE physical interfaces. Note2: The 4x25GE and 2x25GE fanout capabilities are per 100GE physical port. They are supported over QSFP28 100GE point-to-point and fan-out passive copper and fiber cables where each channel of the cable is rated for 25Gb/s per channel operation.