Product Overview

Awards and Recognition Keysight’s AresONE GE won an Interop Best of Show award for demonstrating leading-edge Layer 1-3 test capabilities by using 800GE over 106Gb/s electrical lanes to test network infrastructure, optical transceivers, and copper interconnects. Data-intensive applications like AI, high resolution video streaming, IoT, 5G, edge, and cloud computing are fueling the need for secure and reliable 800GE network infrastructure. The AresONE 800GE helps you validate equipment interoperability and performance, enabling support of future technologies and scalability requirements.

Challenge: Testing all speeds from 10GE to 800GE The 800GE component ecosystem has evolved rapidly. Most major networking companies are developing networking equipment that have 800GE front panel and/or upload ports. The same PAM4 encoded signaling and Forward Error Correction (FEC) technologies, that were widely adopted for 400GE ports, are being used with 106.25Gb/s (namely, 53 Gbaud) electrical lane front panel interfaces for 800GE. Switch ASICs now support up to 106.25Gb/s lanes with PAM4 modulation and FEC—easing the transition from 400GE to 800GE. Testing new port speeds 1x800GE, 2x400GE, 4x200GE, and 8x100GE is the new challenge, however, testing legacy 400GE PAM4 and 100GE NRZ speeds is also essential. Bandwidth requirements for internet applications are driving the need for testing line-rate traffic of 25.6 and 51.2 Tbps networking equipment.

AresONE-M the only test solution that can test from 10GE to 800GE in a single platform! Keysight's AresONE-M 800GE fixed chassis provides the most comprehensive test solution available today. Now, testing from 10GE ot 800GE over PAM4 and NRZ signaling with advance analysis for FEC symbol error correction performance has never been easier! 800GE line-rate testing for 106Gb/s electrical lane interfaces for early-adopter chip/ASIC companies, network equipment manufacturers, cloud service providers, hyperscale data center operators, and optical transceiver and fiber and copper cable manufacturers is now at your fingertips! With comprehensive test coverage of a broad range of Layer 1–3 use cases and fanouts to lower speeds, AresONE-M 800GE is the right choice for early adopters of 800GE and for organizations validating their transition from 100GE and 400GE networks to 800GE!

Key Features

• AresONE 800GE QSFP-DD800 8-port, 4-port, and 2-port models enable L1–L3 testing in a single platform
• 6.4 Tbps of line-rate traffic per 8-port chassis with option to synchronize multiple chassis to test 51.2 Tbps bandwidth and beyond switching platforms
• 2RU fixed chassis form factor that optimizes power and cooling requirements with support for optical transceivers that require up to 25 watts per port
• Complete L2/3 protocol emulation with IxNetwork software application including the Keysight AI Fabric Test Solution
• One platform for 800GE, 400GE, and 100GE with PAM4 and NRZ signaling, with 106.25 Gb/s host electrical lane signaling and downshift to the electrical lane speeds to 53Gb/s, 26Gb/s, and 10Gb/s for the lower-speed Ethernet speeds. All the required FEC types and a full array of in-depth performance statistics are included on a single platform.
• Improve your interoperability, link stability, and robustness testing with Keysightdeveloped intellectual property for the critical test elements of 800GE and 400GE: MAC, PCS, FEC symbol error correction distribution, FEC error injection and statistics, and PAM4 Rx Eye Histogram analysis
• AresONE 800GE enables testing of multiple Ethernet speeds in the same platform with each port capable of the following speeds:
  --  Built-in PAM4 signaling speeds based on 106.25 Gb/s host electrical lanes: 2x400GE, 4x200GE, and 8x100GE per port
  --  Built-in PAM4 signaling speeds based on 53.125 Gb/s host electrical lanes: 1x400GE, 2x200GE, 4x100GE and 8x50GE per port
  --  Optional NRZ signaling based on 26Gb/s host electrical lanes: 1x200GE, 2x100GE, 4x50GE and 8x25GE, with 2x40GE and 8x10GE over 10Gb/s electrical lanes per port

The Keysight AresONE 800GE tester is primarily applied in the fields of high-speed network equipment verification, optical module testing, and data center performance optimization. Its core application scenarios can be categorized as follows:

1. High-Speed Ethernet Equipment Performance Verification
       •  800G Network Equipment Testing: Supports multi-rate testing from 10GE to 800GE, covering mainstream port types such as QSFP-DD800 and OSFP800. It enables full-stack testing of switches and routers for throughput, latency, and protocol compatibility.  For example, when integrated with the Nokia FP5 chip, it can verify the forwarding performance of 48x 800GE ports and the stability of 112G SerDes channels. Typical use cases include 51.4 Tb capacity testing of data center switches and large-scale traffic simulation for AI/ML networks.
       •  Chip and ASIC Validation: Provides line-rate traffic generation (up to 800 Gbps) and protocol emulation capabilities to validate the design performance of network processors (e.g., Nokia FP5) and optical module chips.  For instance, by injecting FEC errors and performing PAM4 receiver eye diagram analysis, it evaluates the chip's noise immunity and link stability.

2. Optical transceiver and High-Speed Interconnect Testing
       •  800G Optical transceiver Performance Evaluation: Supports testing of Linear Pluggable Optics (LPO) modules by removing the DSP chip to reduce power consumption and latency, verifying physical layer performance (e.g., EQ functionality) and link stability of the optical modules.
       •  High-Speed Cable and Interconnect Testing: Offers automated test solutions covering compliance testing for QSFP-DD/OSFP active optical cables and copper cables. Supports standards such as IEEE 802.3ck and InfiniBand, ensuring reliability and signal integrity of high-speed interconnects.

3. Data Center and AI Network Optimization
       •  AI/ML Network Stress Testing: Validates the capacity of AI cluster networks through large-scale traffic generation (e.g., multi-protocol mixed loads) and low-latency simulation.  For example, simulates high-concurrency data transmission demands in generative AI applications to optimize network architecture design.

4. Standardization and Interoperability Testing
       •  Industry Standard Compliance Verification: Supports standards including CISPR, IEEE, and CEI-LINEAR, providing full-stack testing from the physical layer (PAM4/NRZ) to the network layer (L2/L3 protocols), ensuring that devices meet global carrier and data center certification requirements.
       •  Multi-Vendor Interoperability Testing: For example, when used with the Nokia 7750 routing platform, it addresses interoperability challenges of 112G electrical channels, accelerating the deployment of carrier-grade 800GE equipment.