Keysight Accelerates Network Automation with Open, Agile, and Flexible Network Test Solution
November 14 2023 - 10:00AM
Business Wire
- Offers an open and highly flexible test platform that can run
on software, hardware, and white boxes, reducing time-to-test by as
much as four times
- Built on vendor-neutral API to facilitate collaboration between
vendors and their customers, ensuring high quality of co-designed
solutions
- Lowers the barrier for network automation professionals to
enhance NetDevOps practices with continuous validation using the
community edition at no cost
Keysight Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: KEYS) introduces a first in
its class advancement in network testing with the new Keysight
Elastic Network Generator (KENG) software – an agile, composable
network test platform based on open vendor-neutral API and designed
for continuous integration (CI).
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The Keysight Elastic Network Generator,
an agile and composable network test platform supports Open Traffic
Generator API and integrates with a range of Keysight software and
hardware products to facilitate collaborative and flexible network
continuous validation. (Graphic: Business Wire)
In today’s dynamic networking environment, businesses must find
new ways to ensure seamless connectivity, interoperability, and
innovation. While traditional networking environments often rely on
proprietary testing solutions, these closed test systems create
challenges for engineers and network architects since they operate
in isolation, lack interoperability, and flexibility. This lack of
compatibility makes it difficult for devices and technologies from
different companies to communicate seamlessly, which slows
innovation and limits adaptability to the growing demands of highly
distributed modern applications.
In response to these challenges, Keysight founded the
vendor-neutral Open Traffic Generator (OTG) API project to
transform network infrastructure testing and address the demand for
an automation-friendly, open and intent-based testing approach. The
OTG project enables cross-industry co-design of test suites in open
networking projects such as OpenConfig, SAI, SONiC, SONiC-DASH, and
DENT.
The KENG software supports the OTG API, integrates with several
network emulation platforms, and drives a range of Keysight network
infrastructure test software and hardware products. This includes
containerized Ixia-c software and the new white box composable
UHD400T line-rate 400GE traffic generator.
The Keysight Elastic Network Generator software:
- Introduces a ‘Compliance as a Code’ workflow –
Simplifies compliance testing, ensuring seamless vendor equipment
qualification and interoperability.
- Offers adaptability and can run in any containerized
environment – Allows the same tests to be run in various
environments including developer laptops, software pipelines in
public / private clouds, certification labs, as well as data center
and edge locations to facilitate collaborative multi-vendor
testing.
- Incorporates test cases from the field into the development
cycle – Improves quality and avoids costly, repetitive design
and test issues.
- Enables write a test once and run it anywhere
capabilities – Reduces the time-to-test and provides a more
agile developer and tester user experience.
- Accelerates network validation – Minimizes the need to
use real network hardware to replicate physical network topologies
in a lab.
To lower the barriers in adopting the OTG API in NetDevOps
workflows, Keysight offers a community edition of its Elastic
Network Generator, which is capable of emulating border gateway
protocol (BGP) sessions and software traffic generator capabilities
with complex patterns. The community edition is a great entry point
to introduce network test to CI / CD workflow in enterprise and
service provider networks, ensuring strong control and data plane
validation.
Roman Dodin, Product Line Manager, Nokia, said: “Keysight
Elastic Network Generator software brings new network validation
capabilities previously available only in large hardware labs into
the thriving Containerlab ecosystem. Containerlab users can now
enable their software testbeds with Open Traffic Generator APIs to
perform comprehensive functional testing of control plane protocols
and customize traffic patterns like never before. Our collaboration
with Keysight makes network testing more accessible through
Containerlab and unlocks the full potential of CI/CD for network
automation.”
Leonid Khedyk, Chief Technology Officer, PLVision, said:
“PLvision is collaborating with Keysight in various open networking
projects and used Open Traffic Generator to automate tests for such
projects. It is great to see that users can start building software
testbeds with OTG implementations like Ixia-c and carry the same
test scripts to hardware traffic generators with Keysight Elastic
Network Generator.”
Ram Periakaruppan, Vice President and General Manager,
Network Test & Security Solutions, Keysight, said:
“Keysight Elastic Network Generator software represents a
significant departure from the legacy black-box approach. Our new
solution seamlessly provides test coverage across the entire life
cycle of network functions or services. Its open, disaggregated and
API-first design has been field tested and proven to be ideal for
modern DevOps.”
Resources
- Keysight Elastic Network Generator
- Data Sheet: Keysight Elastic Network Generator
- Data Sheet: Keysight UHD400T
About Keysight Technologies
At Keysight (NYSE: KEYS), we inspire and empower innovators to
bring world-changing technologies to life. As an S&P 500
company, we’re delivering market-leading design, emulation, and
test solutions to help engineers develop and deploy faster, with
less risk, throughout the entire product lifecycle. We’re a global
innovation partner enabling customers in communications, industrial
automation, aerospace and defense, automotive, semiconductor, and
general electronics markets to accelerate innovation to connect and
secure the world. Learn more at Keysight Newsroom and
www.keysight.com.
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