Industrial environments are increasingly being standardized with IP and Ethernet based networks. Though the communication protocols used are predominantly same as the ones used in enterprise networks, there are some protocols such as MRP and Real-time Ethernet that are specific to Industrial networks.

As network equipment manufacturers continue to develop products using open platforms and third-party software, the availability of Veryx Functional automated tests for verifying industrial networking protocols, provides the advantage of reduced testing time and shorter time to market, with enhanced quality.

Example Industrial Ethernet network

Veryx ATTEST Industrial Ethernet test suites provide Conformance and Functional verification for protocols such as MRP Media Redundancy Protocol (MRP) and Parallel Redundancy Protocol (PRP) as defined by IEC 62439.

ATTEST IPv4 test suites provide Conformance and Functional verification for features such as IPv4 forwarding, addressing (DHCP) and unicast routing (BGP, RIP, OSPF, ISIS) and multicast (IGMP, PIM-DM, PIM-SM).

ATTEST IPv6 test suites provide Conformance and Functional verification for features such as IPv6 forwarding and tunneling, unicast routing (BGP+, RIPng, OSPFv3, ISISv6) and multicast (MLD, PIM-DMv6, PIM-SMv6).

ATTEST Layer 2 test suites provide Conformance and Functional verification for features such as spanning tree (STP, RSTP, MSTP), VLAN and Link Aggregation.