EXFO releases SONET/SDH test modules
-- Test & Measurement World, 2/23/2006 7:53:00 AM
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has announced the release of its new line of next-generation SONET/SDH test modules for manufacturing and lab environments. The IQS-8120NG Transport Blazer and IQS-8130NG Transport Blazer, housed inside EXFO’s rack-mounted IQS-500 Intelligent Test System (ITS), support transmission rates up to 2.5 Gbps and 10 Gbps, respectively. The ITS in turn can serve in a lab environment, in a central office, or on a manufacturing floor.
Both the IQS-8120NG and IQS-8130NG Transport Blazer modules provide generic framing procedure (GFP) and link-capacity adjustment-scheme (LCAS) support, and they offer high- and low-order virtual concatenation (VCAT) with differential delay generation and analysis. Each module, ready for G.709 functionality, contains an electrical 10/100/1000-Mbps Ethernet and optical Gigabit Ethernet add/drop interface.
The modules also offer a variety of test functions, allowing users to perform a range of tests from simple bit-error rate (BER) analysis to more advanced characterization and troubleshooting. The IQS-8120NG and IQS-8130NG Transport Blazer modules come equipped with EXFO’s SmartMode feature, which provides automatic discovery of the SONET/SDH mixed-mapping signal structure.
“EXFO has made significant R&D investments in recent years to offer leading-edge test solutions for equipment manufacturers and carrier labs, as they are increasingly shifting their focus toward the deployment of converged, IP-based networks in order to render triple-play services and a host of future applications possible,” said Benoit Fleury, EXFO’s VP of protocol-layer product management.
Whether the application is in a lab environment, central office, or manufacturing floor, EXFO’s IQS-500 ITS delivers the solution to address stringent testing needs, including the unique ability to support protocol and a wide range of optical test modules inside the same platform. This most recent Transport Blazer announcement marks the latest in a series of new product introductions for the IQS-500 ITS that includes Ethernet (10/100/1000 Mb/s, 1 Gb/s and 10 Gb/s), Fibre Channel and now complete next-generation SONET/SDH analyzers at up to 10 Gb/s, geared towards the lab and manufacturing environments.
