70 -- HIGH PERFORMANCE IP NETWORK EMULATOR

Notice Date

October 2, 2001

Contracting Office

NASA/Glenn Research Center, 21000 Brookpark Road, Cleveland, OH 44135

ZIP Code

44135

Solicitation Number

RFQ3-182204

Response Due

October 16, 2001

Point of Contact

Leahmarie Stervagi, Contract Specialist, Phone (216) 433-2137, Fax (216) 433-5489, Email Leahmarie.Stervagi@grc.nasa.gov

E-Mail Address

Leahmarie Stervagi (Leahmarie.Stervagi@grc.nasa.gov)

Description

The requirements are revised as follows; the evaluation will be conducted on Brand Name or Equal basis, under the authority of FAR 52.216 "Brand Name or Equal" (Aug 1999). The Salient Characteristics Required of the PacketStorm 2600E Internet Protocol Network Emulator System or equivalent: PacketStorm Model Number 2600E, or equivalent, Quantity 1 7The unit shall have remote access & control capability over a network through a standard browser interface, and respond to user input stimuli to monitor and change network test parameters; 7Operate in stand-alone enclosure free fashion, requiring only standard line current and voltage; 7Come ready assembled; 7Contain a 1.44 Mbyte diskette drive for short term data storage and transfer; 7Contain a minimum 5 Gbyte hard disk drive for long term data and parameter storage; 7Operate within standard USA line 120 VAC and standard 60 Hz line frequency; 7Provide a power cord for connection to standard USA line 120 VAC. 7Fit within a standard NEMA 19" width rack; 7Operate within an environment of 0 to 30 degrees Celsius; 7Contain all necessary software operational programming diskettes or CD ROMS; 7Contain all necessary user manuals; 7Contain all necessary programmer manuals; 7Provide a throughput of 400K packets per second through a minimum hardware and software configuration; 7Have a packet memory depth of 160K packets; 7Generate a packet length of up to 1500 bytes; 7Accommodate packet delay and jitter parameters of 0 to 10 seconds in 130 microsecond resolution increments over Fixed, Gaussian, Uniform, Exponential, and Internet traffic distributions; 7Provide the ability to have a burst packet drop of 0 to 64K packet count; 7Have the ability to drop 0 to 100% of packets; 7Have the ability for packet decimation (1/N) of 1 to 10K packets; 7Have a packet re-order ability of up to 50% with 0.1% resolution within 10 packet hops; 7Provide for duplicate packets of 0 to 100%; 7Provide the ability for a total data sink, i.e. no transmission of packets; 7Provide for a throttle data capacity of 0 to 1000 Mbps within a queue length of 100 to 500K bytes; 7Emulate a BER range of 10-2 to 10-12 random or periodic in data payload or packet with a burst range of 2 to 64K bits; 7Accommodate fragment packets between 68 to 64K bytes within a range of 0 to 100%; 7Offer the flexible capability to modify the following: destination address, destination port, source address, source port, network checksum, transport checksum, protocol, TTL check & decrement & set, fragmentation control, toggle profile control, timer and counters; 7Provide accessible bandwidth probe for measuring packet throughput, total packets, total bytes, average byte rate and average bit rate with the following: throughput of 622 Mbps, time span of 0 to 3600 sec, total byte capacity of 0 to 2 billion, total packet capacity of 0 to 2 billion; average throughput resolution of 1 byte per second or 1 bit per second; 7Provide for a minimum of 16 independent network links each having a different packet modifier and packet impairment profile; 7Provide the capability to filter packets based on the following parameters: source address, destination address, source port, destination port & protocol; 7Give multiple routing modes to allow for packet travel between any of the T1, E1 or 10/100 ports which may be active; 7Offer network capture and replay mode from each source to each destination node for analyzing network performance. Configured with the following options as a minimum: Option 1, Qty. 2, Model OPT110, Single Port T1/E1 IP Interface 7Accommodate data rates at fractional, 1.544 Mbps & 2.048 Mbps; PPP, Raw HDLC, and Cisco HDLC protocols; RJ-48, 100 or 120 ohm interface. Option 2, Qty. 1, Model OPT100, Dual Port 10/100 Ethernet IP Interface (Half/Full Duplex) 7Accommodate data rates at 10 or 100 Mbps; Auto-select between full and half duplex; 10 Base-T or 100 Base-T interface. Option 3, Qty. 1, Model OPT310, QOS ,Differential Services, and SLA System with traffic conditioning; 7Capable of emulating any level of service specified and providing traffic conditioning with queuing as follows: a minimum of 64 independent paths for data service levels, FIFO, Prioritized FIFO, Leaky Bucket, Token Bucket, Stochastic Fair Queuing, Weighted Fair Queuing, Round Robin and Weighted Round Robin. Option 4, Qty. =1, Model OPT610, Two NIST Calibrations (inclusive) for Model 2600E Option 5, Qty. 1, Model OPT630, Two years additional warranty (inclusive) for Model 2600E Option 6, Qty. 1, Model None, Library of General Network Demonstration Blocks for Model 2600E 7Contain a number of general functional software network demonstration modules; Option 7, Qty. 1, Model None, Library of Satellite Based Demonstration Models for Model 2600E 7Contain a number of functional software satellite based demonstration modules; The Question and Quotation response dates have been extended: Questions regarding this acquisition must be submitted in writing to NASA Glenn Research Center, Attn: Leahmarie Stervagi M/S 500-305, 21000 Brookpark Rd. Cleveland, OH 44135 or emailed to: Leahmarie.Stervagi@grc.nasa.gov and must be received no later than 4:30PM October 9, 2001. Oral inquiries will not be accepted. Quotations for the items(s) described above are due by 4:30PM October 16, 2001 and may be mailed or faxed to the contact below and include, solicitation number, FOB destination to this Center, price, proposed delivery schedule, discount/payment terms, warranty duration (if applicable), taxpayer identification number (TIN), identification of any special commercial terms, Cage Code (CCR registration number), and be signed by an authorized company representative.

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Record

Loren Data Corp. 20011004/70SOL010.HTM (D-275 SN50Z655)