The Ethernet OAM 802.3ah verifies the connectivity, fault isolation, performance monitoring and troubleshooting capabilities of Ethernet Services.
The Net-O2 ATTEST 802.3ah OAM test suite verifies the Operational, Administration and Maintenance (OAM) Management capabilities as defined by the IEEE 802.3 – 2005 Section 5 Clause 57. Test cases perform conformance testing for verifying the Generation, Handling and Scalability of various OAMPDUs, state machine changes for multiplexer and parser function, state machine changes for discovery and transmit process and functionality verification of OAM in active/passive mode.
Net-O2 provides one of most comprehensive solutions for conformance testing of Layer-2 and IP test suites. Other Layer 2 test suites include RSTP, MSTP, VLAN, IGMP Snooping and 802.1x.