Spirent Communications has announced the industry’s first high-density test solution capable of emulating realistic AI workloads over Ethernet. As the networking world’s technology of choice, Ethernet is the backbone of cloud, and the ability to emulate realistic AI traffic workloads and test their impact on AI data centre networks and interconnects is key.
Communication networks worldwide rely on Ethernet technology, and testing how the Ethernet fabric of new AI environments performs has proved to be an enormous challenge. AI training brings unique requirements, with dramatically increased workload volumes and high sensitivity to latency, congestion and job completion times. Spirent’s new AI test solution runs on the A1 400G platform and is the first hardware that can emulate the high density 400G xPU workloads for AI environments. It enables customers to test their Ethernet fabrics in their existing test environments, without having to go to the considerable expense of building new xPU server-equipped labs. Utilising the RoCEv2 protocol, the Spirent platform is designed for ease of use, is straightforward to configure and provides repeatable and consistent results to reduce the complexity of testing AI use cases. It also boasts the credentials of a true multipurpose platform that can test both AI and routing/switching use cases concurrently.
