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70 -- HEWLETT PACKARD BROADBAND SERIES TEST SYSTEM SOL RFQ2-36991-LAS DUE 061998 POC Lela A. Stawicki, Contract Specialist, Phone (650)604-3005, Fax (650)604-3020, Email lstawicki@mail.arc.nasa.gov -- Lupe M. Velasquez, Contracting Officer, Phone (650) 604-4522, Fax (650) 604-3020, Email lvelasquez@mail.arc.nasa.gov WEB: Click here for the latest information about this notice, http://nais.nasa.gov/EPS/ARC/date.html#RFQ2-36991-LAS. E-MAIL: Lela A. Stawicki, lstawicki@mail.arc.nasa.gov. NASA/ARC plans to issue a Request for Quotation (RFQ) for a factory refurbished Broadband Series Test System, consisting of the following components: 1) (Quantity one each) E4210B BSTSpx: Form-13 Mainframe Base, with 13 VXI slots, hard drive, V743 controller, detachable keyboard; 2) (Quantity one each) Option 40: 622 Mb/s Real-Time ATM Analyzer Bundle includes E1618A 622 Mb/s Access Line Interface and E1609A 0-622 Mb/s ATM Stream Processor (SC interface); 3) (Quantity one each) Option 211: Dual Port 155Mb/s OC-3c Test Bundle including 2*E1697A, 2*E4209B CPP, E4212A SW, E4223A SW, and E7820A/E7830A ATM layer UNI 3.0/3.1 C.T.S. for Int. Systems;4) (Quantity one each) Option 412: UNI Software Bundle,including the E4214B UNI Signalling Test software and the E6273B ILMI Emulation Test Software; 5) (Quantity one each) Option ALW: 10baseT transceiver; 6) (Quantity one each) Option UHY: SC Connectors. Specifies SC optical adapters for the line interface included in bundle options 004, 007, 111, 211 and 301; includes two adapters and one SC-SC fiber cable; 7) (Quantity one each) Option 411: LAN Software Bundle, includes E4215 LAN Protocol Test S.W; 8) (Quantity one each) E6280A: PNNI Test Software on CD-ROM; 9) (Quantity one each) E4217B: NNI Signalling Test Software on CD-ROM; 10) (Quantity one lot) 50629E: Nine hours T&M (training) productivity assistance delivered on-site by application engineer; 11) (Quantity one each) E5200A: Broadband Service Analyzer, portable measurement mainframe for testing broadband networks; includes RJ 48 LAN cable, crossover adapter, protective carry case; 12) (Quantity one each) Option 137: SC multimode attenuator kit for E5124A, connects E5124A optical pod to MM fiber with SC adapters,includes one SC to SC 10dB attenuator for transmitter; 13) (Quantity one each) E4219A: ATM Network Impairment Emulator Module for the BSTS; emulates five different ATM level impairments to emulate a typical ATM network; 14) (Quantity one lot) Warranty: 3 year manufacturers warranty on items 1, 2, 3, 11, 12,13; 90 day manufacturers warranty on items 4, 8, 9. System backed by technical telephone service, on-site training, consulting and customization. This procurement is being conducted under the Simplified Acquisition Procedures (SAP), FAR Subpart 13.5, Test Program for Certain Commercial Items. NASA/ARC intends to purchase the items from Hewlett Packard Company, Fullerton CA, for the Broadband Series Test System under the authority of 10 U.S.C 2304(c)(1). It was determined by extensive market research that the HP BSTS is the only ATM test equipment identified that meets all of the following government requirements: Tool Command Language/Graphical Toolkit (TcL/Tk) which will enable interactive and automated testing and provide control of test equipment, switches and network management systems; provide sample test scripts; Tree and Tabular Combine Notation (TTCN) development environment for developing and running ISO-compliant test suites; generate and capture Transport Overhead (TOH), stress pointer movement; generate and display trace messages, inject bit interleave parity (BIP) errors, generate automatic remote error indications (REI) alarms, Timing Reference capabilities; web-based documentation, context sensitive help; Traffic Generation Performance with the capability to generate cell streams targeting more than 8000 Virtual Paths and Virtual Channels, option to generate 124 Variable Bit Rate (VBR) streams with independent traffic profiles; dedicated OAM module for high-performance, real-time testing enabling automatic insertion of Performance Monitoring cells into a generated user cell stream, and automatic response to Continuity Check and Activation/Deactivation OAM cells; test cell that includes a copy of the Cell Loss Priority (CLP) bit in the payload to measure cell tagging and tagging violations when an ATM switch "polices" the cell by flipping the CLP bit; Quality of Service (QoS) in real-time, In-Service and Out-Of-Service, using OAM Performance Measurement (PM) cells (as per ITU I.610), with any user cell stream; High-Speed demonstration of 2.4 Gbps OC-48c; capability to insert large "real-world" cell delay and cell delay variation (CDV) to emulate real networks, with statistical CDV and loss distributions modeling real ATM buffers and network congestion, trigger outputs when a cell is impaired, and can impair cell streams based on filtering of any ATM header field; a 4-port Optical Load Generator module for switch loading. UNI Signaling with fully-configurable emulation, ability to stress information elements, timers, and detailed error reporting, an extensive range of signaling conformance test suites, ability to test and measure performance under load, to fix signaling problems, compatibility with different versions of UNI;Independent Local Management Interface (ILMI) with full emulation, including address registration, Simple Network Management Protocol,Management Information Base (MIB) walking, keep-alive polling, conformance test suite;Private Network to Network Interface (PNNI) with both decodes and simulation over a Service Specific Connection Oriented Protocol emulation, providing reliable stimulus-response testing, tools for automating tests; Network to Network Interface (NNI) with full emulation up to the message transfer part (MTP)-3b layer, decodes/simulation of the broadband ISDN user part (B-ISUP) protocol; native frame relay processor modules, software applications including a conformance test suite, LANE conformance, and development in areas of IPv6 and MPOA conformance; ability to test Inverse Multiplexing for ATM (IMA), obtain synchronized correlation of multiple captured data streams, emulate 100 ms link delays, and generate 124 VBR streams with independent traffic profiles; protocol decodes, including LANE, TCP/IP, UDP, and Appletalk; Year 2000 Compliant; telephone technical support service, on-site training, consulting and customization; three year manufacturers hardware warranty. The Government intends to acquire a commercial item using FAR Part 12. Interested firms have seven days from the publication of this synopsis to submit in writing to the identified point of contact, their qualifications/capabilities.Such qualifications/capabilities will be used solely for the purpose of determining whether or not to conduct this procurement on a competitive basis. Responses received after the seven days or without the required information will be considered nonresponsive to the synopsis and will not be considered. A determination by the Government to not compete this proposed effort on a full and open competitive basis, based upon responses to this notice is solely within the discretion of the Government. Oral communications are acceptable in response to this notice. All responsible sources may submit an offer which shall be considered by the agency.An Ombudsman has been appointed. See Internet Note "B". (0163)

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