Spirent TestCenter 4.

49 Software and
Hardware Release Notes
These Release Notes are for all Spirent TestCenter software Base Packages, Test Packages and
hardware.
Click on any link in the table below to jump directly to a subject section.

Section

Description

New Features

Lists the new features available in Spirent

TestCenters Base and Test Packages

Known Issues

Lists the known issues that are in this

release of Spirent TestCenters Base and
Test Packages

Product
Obsolescence

List of Spirent modules that are not

supported in this release

Transceiver
Support

Support and use of Spirent qualified

transceivers

System
Requirements

Lists the hardware and software

requirements for running Spirent
TestCenter software applications.

Installation
Instructions

Contains the instructions to install the

Spirent TestCenter application

Documentation

Introduces Spirent TestCenter

documentation and specifies online help
file system requirements.

Contacting Spirent
Communications

Provides information on how to contact

Spirent Communications for technical
support.

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New Products and Features

Hardware

*NEW* Spirent MX2 and FX2 Test Modules: MX2-100GO-P4, FX2-100GO-P4

Industrys highest protocol scaling 100G (4 CFP2 interfaces) test module.

Extreme 100GE optical interface support
Native CFP2 interfaces
Support for CFP4 with Spirents ACC-6091A (CFP2 to CFP4) adapter
Support for QSFP28 with Spirents ACC-6094A (CFP2 to QSFP28) adapter
New features for this release include:
Ability to enable and disable the Forward Error Correction (FEC).
Add Manual mode support for CFP2-CFP4 adapter with CR4/SR4/LR4 modes, and CFP2QSFP28 adapter with CR4/SR4/LR4 modes.
Identify/ configure the CFP2-CFP4 & CFP2-QSFP28 adapters independent of the transceiver
type or presence status.
Set signal pre/de-emphasis to zero for all CFP4 SR and LR Transceivers

*NEW* Firmware update for Spirent DX2 Test Modules: DX2-100G-P4, DX2100GO-P4, DX2-40G-Q24, DX2-40GO-Q24, DX2-40G-Q8, DX2-40GO-Q8

Industrys best value for 100GE and 40GE testing has been updated with new per-stream statistics:
Advanced sequencing for real-time loss and sequence measurements
Jitter (Beta)
For 100GE and 40GE modes only

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Software
BPK-1193A OpenFlow Controller Base Package

New features for this release include:

IP Address Subnet Mask Setting in Custom Flows
Write Meta Data in Custom Flows

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Subscriber Roaming DHCP INIT-Reboot

*NEW* BPK-1197A DHCP INIT-Reboot Base Package
[Requires BPK-1077A/B DHCP]

Emulate roaming of mobile subscribers (UE mobile device) from one location to another.

Subscribers can move to a new Access Point (AP) with new L2GGRE tunnel or new wireless
SSID (VlAN ID) and retain the same IP Address as long as lease is still valid

When a subscriber roams to new AP or SSID, it switches to INIT-Reboot state and sends out
a DHCP a Reboot command to DHCP Server to verify its lease and retain IP address.

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BGP Scale with Router Blocks

*New* BPK-1196A BGP Performance Base Package
[Requires BPK-1004A/B Unicast Routing]

Support for high scale and performance BGP session testing

Significant improvement on time to test including config setup, apply time, load time, wizard
setup.

Router Block support for IPv4 and IPv6 BGP sessions

Faster internet route table import with router block

Results at block level with drill down capability using Intelligent Result queries.

Coming soon - Extreme scale with multi-core

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PCE-P Traffic Engineering on Segment Routing Networks

BPK-1315A PCE-P Controller(PCE) Base Package
BPK-1316A PCE-P Client(PCC) Base Package
SPK-1130A PCE-P Controller(PCE) and Client(PCC) Solution PackageTest
Solution Bundle
[ Includes: BPK-1015A PCE-P PCE and BPK-1316A PCE-P PCC]
[Requires BPK-1004A/B Unicast Routing, BPK-1006A/B MPLS]

Enables Stateful PCE Controller to compute and initiate LSP Traffic Engineering
(TE) paths (EROs) in Segment Routing(SR) Networks (draft-sivabalan-pce-segmentrouting-03)
And enables PCC to request LSP TE paths in SR networks
Added support for SR ERO Objects with SID Node & Adjacency with SR Labels

Added support for SR RRO Objects

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Segment Routing Transport Services

BPK-1317A Segment Routing for OSPF Base Package
BPK-1318A Segment Routing for ISIS Base Package
SPK-1131A Segment Routing for OSPF & ISIS Test Solution Bundle
[ Includes: BPK-1017A SR OSPF and BPK-1318ASR ISIS ]
[Requires BPK-1004A/B Unicast Routing]

Segment Routing now supports transport traffic over ISIS SR and OSPFv2 SR tunnels using
Next-Hop Lookup option in Traffic Binding. This allows the following transport over SR
tunnels o

Inter-Area and External domain routes,

BGP IPv4 or IPv6 routes &

OSPFv3 IPv6 routes or ISIS IPv6 routes

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L2VPN and L3VPN services over SR OSPFv2 or SR ISIS. MPLS VPN wizards have been
updated to support MPLS tunnels with SR. User can select OSPFv2 SR or ISIS SR for MPLS
core traffic binding. LDP or RSVP-TE protocols are no longer for MPLS Core transport.

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LDP IPv6 version2 & Custom PDU

BPK-1006A/B MPLS (LDP) Base Package
BPK-1313A LDP for IPv6 Base Package

Added support for LDP version2 for IPv6 (draft-pdutta-mpls-ldp-v2-00). Includes support for
128-bit LSR ID for IPv6 LDP Hello.

LDP Custom PDU support. This enables user to send out any Custom PDU in Hex format at
any time after the LDP session is UP. Allows for negative testing as well as functional testing
of new features.

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BGP Enhancements
BPK-1004A/B Unicast Routing (BGP) Base Package

Use BGP IPv6 Router ID to initiate sessions

BGP now supports route Update without initial Withdraw on attribute change. This is available
as a Global selectable option. When this option is enabled the user can update route attributes
with a single Update (MP-REACH) when NLRI is not changed. Initial withdraw (Update with
MP-UNREACH) is not sent. This prevents any interruption to traffic forwarding. If NLRI is also
changed, Withdraw (Update with MP-UNREACH) will be sent first.

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Internet Route-Table Import now supports import of Metric & Community Attributes. This is
supported for all route formats including Cisco, Juniper and ALU. It is supported for both
Normal and Fast Route Imports

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L2TP with Multiple LNS and dual stack LNS

BPK-1012A/B L2TP Base Package

Supports emulation of multiple LNS per port including dual-stack LNS on a single port.

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LAG Profiles for 40G MX2-40G-Q3

BPK-1312A LAG Emulation (Port Grouping) Base Package
[Requires BPK-1015A LACP]

SPK-1200 Link Aggregation (LAG) Test Solution Package

[ Includes: BPK-1015A LACP and BPK-1312A LAG Emulation ]

LAG profiles for MX2-40G-Q3 to support multi-port LAG combinations for 40G and 10G.
Profiles supported for MX2-40G-Q3 module
o

STC-40G-PortGroup-1X2-Port : 1 X 2-port 40G or 1 X 8-port 10G

STC-40G-PortGroup-1X2-Port: 1 X 3-port 40G or 1 X 12-port 10G

Coming soon LAG Profiles for 40G/10G (FX2-40G-Q5) and 100G/40G/10G (MX2/FX2/DX2100G-P4, MX/FX-100G-P2, MX/FX-100G-F2)

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Known Issues
Hardware
Problems that result in a major loss of chassis functionality or a system crash are listed below.

Common to all Chassis

It is important to follow proper environmental procedures when using any Spirent TestCenter chassis.
Please make sure that all empty slots are covered with slot covers ACC-2008B or ACC-2010A (for
the SPT-11U and SPT-3U chassis) or ACC-2022A (for the SPT-N11U and SPT-N4U chassis).

SPT-11U (and SPT-3U Chassis)

The power button in the front of the SPT-11U and SPT-3U chassis works a little differently than it
does on the SPT-9000A or SPT-2U. On the SPT-9000A or SPT-2U you simply press the button and
walk away. The chassis, after a short delay, starts to shut down. On the SPT-11U and SPT-3U you
must hold the button down for about 5 seconds waiting for the status LED to turn amber. Do not
release it until it turns red. Once it does you can release it and walk away. The chassis will
gracefully shut down. If you release it early the chassis will keep running normally.

SPT-N11U (and SPT-N4U Chassis)

The power button in the front of the SPT-N11U works differently than the power button on the
SPT-11U. On the SPT-N11U a simple push and release of the power button initiates a graceful
shutdown. If you need to force a shutdown you push the power button and hold it for five
seconds. Please note the difference because the procedure to gracefully shut down the SPT-11U
chassis will cause a forced shutdown of the SPT-N11U chassis.

On the control module is an Ethernet RJ-45 port labeled 1588. This port is only supported with
revision B chassis controllers.

NTP is only supported with revision B chassis controllers.

IPv6 is not supported on the controller hardware in this release.

When you initially power up the chassis the fans do not come on. This is normal. The fans are
not required to boot the system control module. Once the control module has booted the test
modules are turned on. At this time the fans are also turned on to cool them.

When creating a time synchronization chain involving multiple chassis you must first cable the
chassis together and then reboot the entire system. If you change the synchronization status of a
chassis (from master to slave for example) you must reboot the chassis.

When connecting chassis in a synch-chain, the time synchronization topology takes a long time to
be displayed in the Spirent TestCenter software.

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Spirent C1 and Other Appliances

Upgrading from release 4.39 or earlier to release 4.40 or later requires a system re-image. Once
the system is re-imaged, subsequent installs of 4.40 or later will not require a re-image.

GUI download feature from the C1 is not supported as it is on the chassis

10GE Spirent TestCenter control plane traffic is limited to frames of 4095 bytes or less in length.

C1 with NIC-33 does not consistently operate in half-duplex mode

CR #2179531351. Systems with NIC-33 (4x1G copper) can take upwards of 30 minutes to boot.
WAIT FOR THE SYSTEM TO COMPLETE THE BOOT PROCESS before power cycling or
unplugging the power. The boot time can be sped up by using a console to hit the carriage return
at the point the cursor is blinking.

CR #2179767971. The dual NIC C1-KIT-03-STC and C1-KIT-03-STC-ALL kits are Spirent
TestCenter only. These are shown as SPT-C1-7 in the GUI. APPLYING THE L4L7 TEST
PACKAGE TO THIS CONFIG WILL CORRUPT THE HARD DRIVE OF THE SYSTEM
AND REQUIRE RE-IMAGING TO RECOVER THE APPLIANCE.

FX2-40G-Qx, FX2-10G-Qx, MX2-40G-Qx, MX2-10G-Qx

CR #2169633025. Cards running in 10G per-port reservation mode may fail to synch with the
chassis backplane. Reboot the affected modules to regain synch.

MX-10G-SX

Replaying a large video file may result in a low memory issue and cause the port to go down.

DX2-40G-Q8, DX2-40GO-Q8, DX2-10G-Q8

A port may drop link under constant regression testing. The work around is to reboot the port.

CR #918976824. Some large stream count tests may result in stream counts that are off by 1
frame

DX2-40G-Q8, DX2-40GO-Q8, DX2-10G-Q8 rev. B

CR #967564262. Applying a new ppm value may cause a link flap and FCS errors.

Some large stream count tests may result in stream counts that are off by 1 frame

Performing 40G to 10G and 10G to 40G speed switching may cause some ports to go offline.
Reboot the test module to recover the ports.

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FX/MX-10G-Cx

Please download the latest Product Alert for Spirent TestCenter Power and Cooling for important
information about known power and cooling limitations.

Only 8 MX-10G-C8 modules are supported in SPT-11U

Do not place a MX-10G-C8 module in slot 6 or in slot 10 of an SPT-11U chassis

PPM adjustment is only supported on a test-module basis. All ports must be reserved to adjust the
PPM on any of them. If a port is released the entire module will revert back to 0 PPM.

When using the API the port may not be configured to simultaneously advertise the ability to link
at 10Gbps and 1Gbps. This limitation does not apply to a test configured from the GUI.

FX/MX-100G-F2, FX/MX-100G-F1, FX/MX-100GO-F2, FX/MX-100GO-F1, FX/MX40G-F2 and FX/MX-40G-F1

40GBASE-CR4 and 100GBASE-CR10 auto-negotiation is not supported. Workaround: Disable

auto-negotiation on the device under test.
Interface Manual mode for Cisco 40G QSFP+ optics has the following characteristics:
The settings for this mode will be applied to all ports on a module
Switching into and out of this mode requires a reboot of the module and can take up to 10
minutes
The first apply of settings after reserving a module in this mode will take up to 40s for link to
stabilize before testing can begin.

MX2-100GO-P4

Individual Port Group Reset is not supported on Colossus MX2. If attempted, the entire test
module will reboot. This is expected to be fixed in the next release.

CR2257576981 issue on cut through channel severely limits performance for control plane
packets. In certain circumstances throughput will degrade as the test progresses.

ACC-6094A

AN (CR4 Auto-Negotiation) has not been tested or verified on QSFP28. Awaiting availability
of supported vendor optics and cables.

CV-10G-S8

The CV module will default the PFC settings on. This default will consume more memory on the
port itself and could impact some of the advertised scalability numbers for the control-plane
emulation protocols. Workaround: When creating a new configuration, on the Port Setups PFC
Measurement tab, disable all the Priority Enabled Queues. Take the port offline and then
bring it back online. This will clear the PFC information running on the port and free up memory
to run non PFC tests.

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DX-10G-S32

Revision B hardware does not properly control the Link LED while in 1G mode. Link is properly
indicated in the GUI. The hardware revision can be viewed in the GUI using the
ToolsEquipment InformationTest Module view and by scrolling to the Hardware Version
column at the far right.

Changing speed to 1G while PPM adjust = 100, a validation error is thrown and PPM adjust is
greyed out but the ports are still in 10G. Cannot change speed when PPM adjust is not set to 0. To
recover, change the speed to 10G and apply - PPM adjust should default to 0, and then change
speed to 1G.

Revision C hardware does not support the Out of Memory daemon in this release. Testers will not
receive a warning if the module is low on memory. Please pay attention not to exceed the
supported scale metrics.

Miscellaneous Known Issues

Please download the latest Product Alert for Spirent TestCenter Power and Cooling for important
information about known power and cooling limitations.

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Software
BPK-1001A Spirent TestCenter Packet Generator and Analyzer Base Package
1. CR #2254057281 Spirent TestCenter GUI does not show the correct active L4L7 profile
for MX-40G-F2/1 and MX-100G-F2/1
2. CR #2227625661 Version shown as unknown in GUI for some test modules
3. CR #2218513961 Port groups intermittently down during speed switching
4. CR #2255328721 Unable to download Spirent TestCenter application from browser

Access Test Package Limitations

BPK-1007A/B PPPOX Base Package
BPK-1077A/B DHCP Client/Server Base Package
BPK-1301A DHCPv6/PD Client/Server Base Package
5. High scale PPPoE session when flapped multiple times over long duration may get stuck
at initiating PADI [ CR 888680191]
6. Access realism:DHCPv6 over PPPoEv6,when stopping DHCPv6,then stopping
PPPoEv6,the DHCPv6 sessions take 4 times longer than in 4.30 to go to IDLE state (120
sec vs 30 sec) [ CR 888176481]

BPK-1195A OpenFlow Switch Emulation Base Package

OpenFlow Flow action of Insert/Modify VLAN ID does not work correctly on Openflow
Switch Emulation for this release.

Switch blocks created on different ports need to be on different subnets for traffic to go out
the physical port that they are configured on.

Results Reporter

Results Reporter does not sort all data when clicking on the column headers. It only sorts what
is on the page. CR #184631206
Workaround: user must create a query to sort all the data.
The number of characters for a file name (full path) which Spirent TestCenter can handle is
limited to 222 bytes. CR # 184454263
Workaround: user must create a query to sort all the data.

Spirent TestCenter Anywhere

The stca start command may fail if the string spirent appears in the output of the ps x
command on the host operating system. This failure may occur, for example, if there is a user
logged in with spirent in the username, or if a file in the /mnt/spirent directory is being edited.

Workaround: Quit/kill any processes that show up in the output of the ps x | grep
spirent | grep v bkd command.

Ports may be unavailable when Spirent TestCenter Anywhere is started for the first time after
an install.

Workaround: To recover the ports issue the stca restart command

Spirent TestCenter Virtual QEMU/KVM

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When the user tries to reserve a newly created Spirent TestCenter virtual QEMU port, they
may encounter an Application Error, and the ports will fail to reserve.

Workaround: SSH to the Spirent TestCenter virtual QEMU VM (admin/spt_admin)

and use the portgroupsize command to correctly size the port group. The default
port group size maybe incorrectly set to 1 by the QEMU install script.

Spirent TestCenter Anywhere

Some versions of OpenVswitch have a bug that causes extremely low bandwidths to and from
the VM which can prevent the STC GUI from properly communicating with the VM.

Workaround: If you see a problem doing an Apply from the GUI, run the following
command on the VM:
ethtool -K <intf> tso off
where <intf> is the NIC chosen as the admin port

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Spirent Product Obsolescence

Small Form Factor Test Modules are not supported in this release

The following small form factor test modules are not supported in this Spirent TestCenter release
CPR-1001A
CPR-1001B
CPR-2001A
CPR-2001B
CPR-2002A
CPR-2002B
EDM-1001A
EDM-1001B
EDM-2001A
EDM-2001B
FBR-1001A
FBR-1001B
FBR-2001A
FBR-2001B
XFP-1001A
XFP-1001B
XFP-2001A
XFP-2001B

Series 1000: 8 Port 10/100 Copper RJ45 Test Module

Series 1000: 8 Port 10/100 Copper RJ45 Test Module
Series 2000: 8 Port 10/100 Copper RJ45 Test Module
Series 2000: 8 Port 10/100 Copper RJ45 Test Module
Series 2000: 8 Port 10/100 Copper RJ45 Test Module
Series 2000: 8 Port 10/100 Copper RJ45 Test Module
Series 1000: 4 Port 1G Dual Media Test Module
Series 1000: 4 Port 1G Dual Media Test Module
Series 2000: 4 Port 1G Dual Media Test Module
Series 2000: 4 Port 1G Dual Media Test Module
Series 1000: 8 Port 10/100 Fiber SFP Test Module
Series 1000: 8 Port 10/100 Fiber SFP Test Module
Series 2000: 8 Port 10/100 Fiber SFP Test Module
Series 2000: 8 Port 10/100 Fiber SFP Test Module
Series 1000: 1 Port 10G XFP Test Module
Series 1000: 1 Port 10G XFP Test Module
Series 2000: 1 Port 10G XFP Test Module
Series 2000: 1 Port 10G XFP Test Module

If you attempt to upgrade a chassis that contains one of these modules to this release you will
receive an error message requesting that you remove the modules from the chassis before you
install the firmware. You cannot upgrade a chassis to this release if one of these modules is in the
chassis.

If you insert one of these modules into a chassis that has already been booted with this release the
module will not boot and it will not appear in the GUI. The status LED will illuminate but it will
be solid amber indicating the module is not booted.

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Transceiver Support
Spirent has a rigorous process for selecting and qualifying transceivers to operate with its test
modules. This ensures the highest quality test results and seamless operation for end users. See the
Supported Transceiver document included with this release, or contact Spirent Support Services for
the list of qualified transceivers.
The use of unqualified transceivers may cause intermittent link issues, FCS errors, dropped packets,
auto-negotiation issues and other layer 1 problems. Even rebranded transceivers based on those on
Spirents supported list may not be fully compatible.
In cases where Spirent qualified transceivers are not used, Spirent Support Services will troubleshoot
those situations where a valid support contract is in place. However, in situations where compatibility
with unqualified transceivers is suspected, Spirent Support Services may ask the customer to replace
them with transceivers on our official list.

New Features and Enhancements

None for this release.

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System Requirements
System Test

General Functional Testing

at low port (< 20) and
stream density and/or low
protocol scale (100s of
emulated endpoints)

Scaling Testing with higher

ports and/or single or multidimensional protocols scale

Recommended System

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Intel i3 CPU (or

equivalent)
2.9 GHz or
better
3GB RAM
50GB of free disk space
Intel i7 CPU (or
equivalent)
2.9 GHz or
better
8 GB RAM
100GB of free disk
space

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Spirent TestCenter Hardware/Software Requirements

A Spirent TestCenter STP-N11U, SPT-N4U, SPT-C1, SPT-11U, SPT-3U, SPT-2U, or SPT2000A-HS, or SPT-9000A chassis with one or more ordered test modules, personality boards (if
required), and blank panels installed. Chassis firmware must be as follows:
o Firmware v3.70 or greater for SPT-2000A-HS, SPT-2U, SPT-9000A or SPT-11U chassis.
o Firmware v3.90 or greater for SPT-3U.
o Firmware v4.00 or greater for SPT-C1.
o Firmware v4.30 or greater for SPT-N11U
o Firmware v4.33 or greater for SPT-N4U

Spirent TestCenter Application

License for BPK-1001A (Packet Generator and Analyzer Base Package A) software is a minimum
requirement
A single instance of Spirent TestCenter is supported per PC when using the graphical user
interface.

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Operating System Requirements

Any of Windows operating system variants listed in the table below can be used with the Spirent
TestCenter GUI and API. The Linux/ Unix operating systems in the table below can be used with
automation only.
For automation users, it is necessary to work with a combination of operating system and scripting
language that is supported by Spirent. The table below shows the combinations of operating systems
and scripting language that are tested and supported by Spirent.
Windows operating systems are supported for the following languages: English, French, German,
Japanese, Korean, Chinese (traditional and simplified), and Italian.

Operating System

7 Professional 32-bit / 64-bit

2

Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard 2
Server 2003 32-bit Enterprise R2
Server 2003 64-bit R2
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EL3 WS
Red Hat Enterprise Linux EL5 WS
CentOS 5.0
CentOS 5.3
CentOS 6.3 64-bit
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (x86_64)
Linux/ Unix
Ubuntu 10.04 32-bit / 64 bit
Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit
Ubuntu 12.04 32-bit / 64-bit
FreeBSD 6.3
FreeBSD 7.1
FreeBSD 8.1

1.
2.
3.

C#
Java
VS6/g
VS6/g++ ++
4.02 or 4.02 1.6
later
or
later
Yes
Yes
Yes

Perl

C/C++

5.8.8 5.8.9

Python

Ruby

Tcl

5.14

2.6.6

2.7.5

1.86

8.4.13,
8.5.9, &
8.5.14

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Yes3
No

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

No

Yes

Yes

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes
No
No

Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No
No

No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No

No
No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
No
No
No

No
No
No
No

No
No
No
No

Yes1
No
No
No
No

Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
No
Yes

No
No
No
No

Yes1
No
Yes
Yes
Yes

No
No
No
No
No
No
No
Yes
No
No
No
No
No
No

No
No
No
No

Yes
No
No
No

No
No
No
No

No
Yes
Yes
Yes

Yes

No

No

Yes

Multi-threaded
If you are using Avalanche on Spirent TestCenter Windows 2008 server is not officially supported at this time.
Running as a 32-bit application

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Spirent TestCenter Virtual - Supported Hypervisors

The following table provides a list of hypervisors that are supported for Spirent TestCenter Virtual.

Hypervisor
VMWare ESXi
QEMU/KVM

Version
4.1, 5.3, 5.5
Fedora 20, CentOS 6.5, Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04

Spirent TestCenter Anywhere - Supported Linux Distributions

The following table provides a list of Linux operating systems that are supported for Spirent
TestCenter Anywhere.

Distribution
Fedora
CentOS
Ubuntu

Version
20
6.5
12.04, 14.04

LabServer
Without LabServer, customers may connect to Spirent TestCenter using any of the above supported
operating systems as clients. However, customers using FreeBSD 6.3/7.1/8.1 clients are required
connect to Spirent TestCenter using LabServer.

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Installation Instructions for This Release

Getting Started with Spirent TestCenter provides hardware set up, software installation, and licensing
instructions for Spirent customers who are receiving and installing a new Spirent TestCenter system.
This document is included in the Documentation folder on the installation DVD, and is available in the
current Documentation download file on the Spirent Communications support website
(http://support.spirent.com).

Firmware Installation for Spirent Chassis and Test Modules

Firmware installation instructions are included in the Getting Started with Spirent TestCenter. This
document is included on the Spirent TestCenter installation DVD and is available on the Spirent
Customer Service Center Downloads page (http://support.spirent.com ).

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Documentation
Spirent TestCenter user documentation is available in PDF and WebHelp formats.
Documents delivered in PDF format support product installation, Spirent TestCenter Virtual, Spirent
TestCenter automation, and provide testing methodology information. These documents are available
on the Spirent Communications support website (http://support.spirent.com) with the software
downloads.
Help files, included within Spirent TestCenter applications, provide reference information and context
sensitive user support. Launch a Help file by pressing F1 in an open application or by clicking the Help
button displayed in the menu bar or on a dialog box.
One PDF document is only available through the Spirent Knowledge Base.

The Spirent TestCenter Hardware Reference provides information about Spirent TestCenter
chassis, modules, module LEDs, multiple chassis connections, cables, and chassis commands. It
includes basic information about system administration functions and diagnostics.
Navigate to the Spirent Communications support website (http://support.spirent.com). Click the
Knowledge Base tab and then click Documentation in the menu bar. Enter hardware reference
in the search box on the right and click Search. Click the Spirent TestCenter Hardware
Reference link in the results list.

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Contacting Spirent Communications

To obtain technical support for any Spirent Communications product, please contact our Support
Services department using any of the following methods:

Americas
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://support.spirent.com
Toll Free: +1 800-SPIRENT (+1 800-774-7368) (North America)
Phone: +1 818-676-2616
Hours: Monday through Friday, 06:30 to 18:00 Pacific Time

Europe, Africa, Middle East

E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://support.spirent.com
Phone: +33 (1) 6137 2270 (France)
Phone: +44 1803 546333 (UK)
Hours: Monday through Thursday, 09:00 to 18:00, 9:00 to 17:00 Friday, Paris Time

Asia Pacific
E-mail: [email protected]
Web: http://support.spirent.com
Phone: +86 (800) 810-9529 (toll-free mainland China only)
Phone: +86 (10) 8233 0033 (China)
Operating Hours: Monday through Friday, 09:00 to 18:00 Beijing Time
The latest versions of user manuals, application notes, and software and firmware updates are
available on the Spirent Communications Customer Service Center website at
http://support.spirent.com.
Information about Spirent Communications and its products and services can be found on the main
company website at http://www.spirent.com.

Company Address
Spirent Communications, Inc.
27349 Agoura Road
Calabasas, CA 91301
USA
All of the company names and/or brand names and/or product names referred to in this document, in
particular, the name Spirent and its logo device, are either registered trademarks or trademarks of
Spirent plc and its subsidiaries, pending registration in accordance with relevant national laws. All
other registered trademarks or trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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