QACafe releases the new add-on DOCSIS test suite  for CDRouter.  The DOCSIS add-on for CDRouter simulates the network services required for a fully featured DOCSIS network, letting you test cable modems and eRouters through any CMTS. This plus new test cases that exercise configuration, routing, application, and performance metrics in a repeatable, automated environment that makes cable/MSO testing easier than ever before.

 

Key Features

 

• Provides a full DOCSIS provisioning environment including TFTP, DHCP, Time of Day, SNMP, TR-069, and more.
• Dynamically create and test with multiple DOCSIS configuration files
• Test both CM and eRouter interfaces in the same CDRouter test session
• Test downstream and upstream performance throttling with CDRouter Performance
• Test TR-069 provisioning through DOCSIS
• Test SNMP provisioning through DOCSIS
• Exercise DUT interoperability with multiple CMTS

 

Making cable-based broadband gateways easier to test

In our experience making CDRouter for the broadband networking world, we find it’s often difficult for users to get a consistent, easy to set up test environment to validate the functionality, scalability, and performance of their cable modems or eRouters. That’s why we added CDRouter DOCSIS: to let CDRouter do the hard work of simulating a complete DOCSIS provisioning system to make automated, repeatable deployment and regression testing that much easier.

 

Simulates a complete provisioning system

With the DOCSIS add-on, CDRouter is able to simulate the network services required to provision cable modems and eRouters in the way the cable industry does today.

 

DOCSIS configuration generation and TFTP download

 

Add a cable modem or eRouter configuration directly to a CDRouter test config, or store your own configuration files locally and associate them with a given test package. This gives you a traceable, repeatable test setup that allows you to run many different test scenarios per configuration so you can see what works and what doesn’t from one revision to the next.

 

Test configuration of TR-069 and SNMP

 

The DOCSIS specification allows the provisioning of TR-069 and SNMP using configuration files. When used with CDRouter’s TR-069 or SNMP add-ons, CDRouter can fully evaluate your product implementation of these protocols.

 

Test your CM and eRouter interfaces in the same test session

 

CDRouter allows you to test both the CM and eRouter interfaces during the same test session.