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Speed Tests for Session Smart Router Deployed as a WAN Edge (BETA)

Service Providers (SPs) as well as their end customers install and deploy telecommunication circuits (or paths) to offices, branches, and so on. As Session Smart Routers are deployed at the edge of the customer premise, SPs and customers need to generate traffic to test the speed and performance of these circuits to ensure the quality is being maintained.

From the Juniper Mist™ portal, you can run a speed test for a Session Smart Router deployed as a WAN Edge on your network. Speed tests come in handy, for example, when:
  • You need to test the speed and performance of the circuit being delivered to the customer.
  • You need to perform new link qualification to verify that speeds are what the service provider and customer have agreed upon.
  • You need to perform on-demand speed tests when you suspect a low link speed is causing link issues.
  • You need to run scheduled speed tests to re-test link speeds and ensure performance continues to meet expectations on an ongoing basis.
Note:

The WAN Edge Speed Test tool can reliably validate circuits speeds of 1 megabit per second (Mbps) to 1 gigabit per second (Gbps). Circuits exceeding 1Gbps must rely on other tools for validation.

The WAN Edge Speed Test tool does not measure or validate jitter or loss.

To run a Speed Test for a Session Smart Router deployed as a WAN Edge:

  1. Navigate to the Juniper Mist portal, then click WAN Edges > WAN Edges.
  2. Select the WAN Edge name.

  3. Select the WAN port from the Port Panel.

  4. The Networks section then appears. From the Networks section, under the Speed Test column, click Run Test.
  5. In the Speed Tests section, the test you are currently running is In Progress. After a minute or two, the progress of the speed test changes to Succeeded, and the results populate in the columns, displaying information such as download speed, upload speed, latency, the interface the test was run on, and the VLAN number.

  6. If you need to run speed tests on a recurring basis, you can use the WAN Speed Test Scheduler.
    1. Navigate to Organization > Settings.
    2. In the WAN Speed Test Scheduler section, select Enabled.
    3. Select the Time of Day and Day of Week that you want the speed tests to occur.
    4. Select whether you want to run the tests on all WAN interfaces or select WAN interfaces.