testing bandwidth of big internet pipes

At the moment we are looking for a good badwidth test within your network

to test the line and to see if the customer gets what he has asked/paid
for.

Have you tried pathload/pathrate?
http://www.cc.gatech.edu/fac/Constantinos.Dovrolis/bw.html

Pathchirp is another possibility
http://www.spin.rice.edu/Software/pathChirp/

Both of these websites have documents that you may find useful, or you can
google on pathrate or pathchirp to find additional documents.

--Michael Dillon