OFCNFOEC 2009: Broadband demand continues
OFCNFOEC conference and exhibition, March 23–26, San Diego, CA, www.ofcnfoec.org.
-- Test & Measurement World, 5/1/2009 2:00:00 AM
Philippe Morin, president of Metro Ethernet Networks at Nortel, Canada, told attendees at the plenary session of the 2009 OFCNFOEC conference that the current economic downturn is a challenge, but bandwidth demand continues to increase. “The economic downturn is actually accelerating bandwidth growth because people are staying home and they want their entertainment delivered. Electronic devices and connectivity have moved from 'nice to have’ to a necessity.”
Lawrence Lessig of Stanford Law School told the audience that today’s copyright laws need to be revamped for the digital age. He said that “machines” such as TV and radio changed us from what he called a “read-write” society to a “read-only” society. Prior to radio and TV, people used to sing songs and be artistic. “In the 21st century,” he predicted, “we will become a producing culture again” as people now remix audio and video into their own work, which leads to copyright issues that today’s laws don’t address.
Anritsu introduced several instrument cards for its tester mainframes: a 10-Gbps Ethernet plug-in module for its MD1230B Data Quality Analyzer and a module for its MP1590B Network Performance Tester that supports testing of SDH, SONET, OTN, PDH, and DSn interfaces. Centellax introduced a multichannel signal-integrity test system that uses up to five 10-Gbps pods to produce PRBS (pseudorandom bit sequence) patterns for performing BER (bit-error rate) tests.
Synthesys Research displayed its 17.5-Gbps BertScope that decomposes jitter and displays it in a map form. Yokogawa demonstrated its transport analyzer, which provides insight into WDM (wavelength-division multiplexed) optical signals
Agilent Technologies showed its N4391A optical modulation analyzer, based on the Infiniium 90000 series oscilloscopes. The company’s N7700A photonic application suite of software performs high-speed optical measurements, and a new PXI optical communications analyzer module analyzes serial data streams at rates from 155 Mbps to 10.518 Gbps.
JDSU added AMCC’s enhanced FEC (forward-error correction) to its TestPoint 10-Gbps line of testers used for Metro Ethernet and carrier-grade Ethernet applications. Picosecond Pulse Labs exhibited the Model 8020 optical splitter for its line of pattern generators. Polatis introduced the Series 2000 80x80 optical switches.
Inphi demonstrated a reference design for making BER measurements at speeds up to 28 Gbps. The reference design uses Inphi’s 5080MX multiplexer. General Photonics demonstrated the PMD-1000 polarization-optimized PMD (polarization-mode dispersion) source. ILX Lightwave announced the LDC-3700C series of laser-diode controllers.
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