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Five methodology pages for RFC 2544, RFC 2889, RFC 9411 with RFC 3511, RFC 6349 and ITU-T Y.1564, with the test setup, parameters and the shape of the report. A FAQ on how a project runs, a blog with protocol series and test notes, and industry news three times a week. Everything is written by the engineers who run the bench.

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What is here

Four sections, each with a job

Pick by what you need right now: a method to put in a procurement document, an answer on how we work, a worked example from the bench, or what changed in the industry this week

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    Methodologies

    RFC and ITU-T benchmarks, step by step

    What a standard measures, how the bench is wired for it, which parameters we set and what the report contains. Written for the engineer who has to defend the numbers and the manager who signs the purchase.

    Open the index

  2. 2

    FAQ

    how a project runs

    Scope, NDA, access to the bench, what counts as a test day, how a test plan turns into a quote, what we do not take on. Short answers, grouped by stage.

    Read the answers

  3. 3

    Blog

    protocol series and bench notes

    How we test BGP, OSPF, EVPN, IPsec and TLS; what breaks first under load; typical scenarios with realistic numbers. Each post reads on LinkedIn in two lines and on the page in full.

    Go to the blog

  4. 4

    Industry news

    three digests a week

    Outages, vendor releases, standards updates and security advisories that touch network testing, summarised with a source link. Filter by topic, read in English, Russian or Armenian.

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Methodologies

Five standards with a page each

Each page follows one structure: who the standard is for, the test bed, the parameter table, the tests, the procedure, the report. Three more are run on request and described in the index.

StandardWhat it measuresTypical deviceOn the bench
01RFC 2544 Throughput, latency, frame loss, back-to-back Router, switch, firewall in L2-3 mode 1–3 days per unit
02RFC 2889 Forwarding, MAC learning, congestion control LAN and data-centre switch 2–3 days per unit
03RFC 9411 / RFC 3511 Connections per second, concurrent sessions, L7 throughput Firewall, NGFW, IPS 3–5 days per profile
04RFC 6349 TCP throughput, efficiency, buffer delay WAN link, SD-WAN, managed service 1–2 days per path
05ITU-T Y.1564 CIR, EIR, delay, jitter, loss per service Carrier Ethernet service, EVC 2 h to 24 h per service set

Durations are bench time for one unit or one path with a ready configuration; the test plan fixes the exact number before the quote

Questions

About these pages

Methodology index Full FAQ Blog Industry news

Can I use a methodology page in a tender or RFP?

Yes. Each page names the standard, the test setup, the parameters and the pass criteria, so it can be cited as the method section of an RFP. If you send us the document, we check that the plan we propose matches it line by line.

Are the reports and benchmarks public?

No. Reports belong to the client and stay under NDA. The blog carries typical scenarios with realistic numbers, built from the kind of work we do, without naming a client or a live project.

Which tools run the tests described here?

Commercial traffic generators and analysers in the CloudLAB rack, our own generator for stateful application mixes, WAN emulators and a Wi-Fi bench. The test plan names the tool behind each test; we do not default to one vendor.

How often is the content updated?

Methodology pages change when a standard or our bench changes. News is published three times a week, the blog roughly weekly. A page shows no author line or date by design; ask us if you need the revision history.

Can I get a methodology that is not listed?

RFC 5180 for IPv6, ITU-T Y.1731 for Ethernet OAM and TR-398 for Wi-Fi run on request and get a page once there is enough demand. Protocol-level tests such as BGP convergence or EVPN are covered in the blog series and in the test plan.

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