About Service Performance

Service Performance is an optional module of Legacy orchestrator. It enables network operators to coordinate multiple concurrent tests that validate the flow of a particular customer service and to evaluate the impact that other customer services can have on these flows. Service Performance automatically creates the required network loopbacks and removes the complexities of centralizing and archiving test results.

Service Performance leverages the capabilities of Cisco Provider Connectivity Assurance Sensors and sensor: modules including: best-in-class frame delay, inter-frame delay variation, throughput and packet loss testing. Service Performance provides the network operator with a centralized platform for configuring service activation testing combined with a powerful performance validation engine.

With Service Performance, you can:

• Centralize testing activities
• Coordinate multiple tests from different sources to mimic network traffic patterns
• Accelerate and secure test set up and execution
• Ensure support for the RFC-2544 and Y.1564 test suites used to validate end-to-end configuration settings and service performance
• Host a network-wide test result database
• Provide real-time status updates
• Maintain historical test records.

To facilitate test setup, Service Performance provides inventory-driven menus to help users select valid configuration parameters for RFC 2544 and Y.1564 tests.

For Layer 3 tests, Service Performance presents the list of possible IP addresses for the selected near-end and far-end devices. When the user selects an IP address, the name and MAC address of the destination port are automatically supplied.
The following attributes are stored for each interface:

• Interface name and IP address
• Interface type (Auto, Standard, VLAN, QinQ)
• Interface VLAN settings (VLAN ID, Ether Type and priority)

Similarly, for Layer 2 tests, when the user selects a port name, the MAC address of the destination port is supplied automatically. The following attributes are obtained for each port when Legacy orchestrator periodically scans for new Assurance Sensors and Assurance Sensor Modules:

• Connector name and port name
• MAC address

The sections that follow provide procedures for configuring, executing and retrieving results for both the RFC 2544 and Y.1564 service validation suites.