Aticara L2-L3 Test Platform

Aticara is a completely software based and virtualized traffic simulator which can run on Commercial Off the Shelf Hardware (COTS) and can generate line rate traffic both state full and stateless.

Platform: Commercial Off The Shelf Server

Supported Hypervisors: ESX, KVM, Openstack

Supported Speeds: 1 /2.5/5/10/25/40/50/100 Gbps

Aticara offers tri-speed 25/50/100 Gbps as well as dual speed 10/40 Gbps Ethernet Test solutions.


Stream Based Traffic Generation

  • Create up to 1024 unique streams per port.
  • Each stream can have upto 10 million flows.
  • Mac address, VLAN , IP Address etc can be randomized or incremented in a set pattern.
  • Supports over 100 pre-defined layer 2-7 header templates
  • Stream configuration wizard is provided to create custom streams

Load Profile and Traffic Scheduling

Using the Load Profile and Traffic Scheduling Wizard user can specify the Ramp Up, Ramp Down, Total Duration, Number of Iterations and also specify the Traffic Stream Distribution. This is helpful in simulating real world network traffic pattern like Daily Peak Period, Weekdays versus weekend, Fixed Daily Measurement Interval (FDMI), Holidays etc

Traffic Distribution Traffic Distribution Wizard lets us configure the utilization of bandwidth per stream

Real Time Statistics Aticara provides real time aggregate statistics on per port and per stream basis.

Latency and Jitter Calculation Real-Time Aggregate and per stream latency and jitter calculation

Scripting and Automation Aticara offers API’s in Perl, Python and Tcl for automation

Aticara offers tri-speed 25/50/100 Gbps as well as dual speed 10/40 Gbps Ethernet Test solutions.


Salient Features

  • Completely software driven.
  • Runs on Commodity hardware and nic cards.
  • Supports virtualization on ESXi, Openstack and KVM.
  • Supports lines rates of – 1/2.5/5/10/25/40/50/100 Gbps.
  • Intuitive web based GUI.
  • Supports various payload pattern – Random, Custom, PRBS31.
  • Support various packet pattern – Random, Incrementing, Decrementing, Butterfly and Fixed.
  • Ability to configure Inter Frame Gap (IFG).
  • Ability to configure Inter Burst Gap (IBG).
  • Ability to specify bandwidth utilization at port level.
  • Stream, Load and Traffic distribution wizards.
  • Aggregate and per stream latency and jitter calculation.
  • Real-time aggregate per port statistics.
  • Capture Utility and filter support .
  • Offline Analyzer to visualize long duration test graphically .
  • Real-time per stream statistics.
  • Ability to save per port and per stream statistics as CSV
  • Ability to customize test report.
  • Automation support – Perl, Tcl, Python.
  • Tri speed nic card support – 25/50/100 GbE.
  • Dual speed nic cads support – 10/40 GbE.