Smart Loopback Lite

Baseline network troubleshooting

Smart SFP Loopback Lite is a device in SFP form factor for loopback traffic at Layer 2 of the OSI model (Data link).

Incoming traffic is looped back with MAC addresses swapped.

Smart SFP is installed in any network device with an SFP slot and acts simultaneously as both a standard SFP module and Smart Loopback.

Smart SFP Loopback can be used as a remote loopback with Ethernet test and measurement equipment from any vendor.

Smart Loopback
  • MACs swap
  • Persistent and on-demand
  • Condition: own MAC dst or by filter
  • Filters with mask by fields: VLAN ID, MAC src/dst, IP src/dst, TCP/UDP src/dst ports
  • Statistics
  • Compatible with testers of any vendor
Flow manager
  • Actions by filters
  • Actions: stat, drop, pass
  • Filter with mask by fields: VLAN ID, IP src/dst, TCP/UDP src/dst ports
  • Statistics
Performance monitoring
  • TWAMP sender and responder
  • iPerf
Management
  • CLI over SSH
  • Static IP, DHCP
  • IPv4, IPv6, VRF
  • VLAN
  • ACL, VPN
  • PTP slave, NTP client
  • Remote control from IP/Ethernet testers
  • Remote software upgrade
General
  • 1/10 Gigabit Ethernet
  • Max frame size 10000 bytes
  • Inline and out-of-line installation
  • Digital Diagnostics Monitoring (DDM)
  • SFP/SFP+ MSA compliant
  • Multi-vendor compatibility
  • Industrial temperature

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