Standard Overview
ITU-T Y.1564 is designed to serve as a network service level agreement (SLA) validation tool, ensuring that a service meets its guaranteed performance settings in a controlled test time. This standard ensures that all services carried by the network meet their SLA objectives at their maximum committed rate and perform long-term service testing. ITU-T Y.1564 testing confirms that network elements allow all services to be properly carried, while under stress during a soaking period.
ITU-T Y.1564 testing is for quickly confirming the end-to-end configuration; it defines the CIR (Committed Information Rate), EIR (Excess Information Rate), Traffic policing, CBS (Committed Burst Size), and EBS (Excess Burst Size). ITU-T Y.1564 testing measures the following items for all configured service traffic:
ITU-T Y.1564 testing is for quickly confirming the end-to-end configuration; it defines the CIR (Committed Information Rate), EIR (Excess Information Rate), Traffic policing, CBS (Committed Burst Size), and EBS (Excess Burst Size). ITU-T Y.1564 testing measures the following items for all configured service traffic:
- IR (Information Rate)
- FTD (Frame Transfer Delay)
- FDV (Frame Delay Variation)
- FLR (Frame Loss Rate)
- ​Service Performance Test
