August 24, 2010 – AFL Telecommunications is launching two new fiber-optic fusion splicers: the FSM-100M and the FSM-100P for splicing polarization maintaining (PM) fibers. Both new specialty fiber fusion splicers, branded as the ARCMaster family, are designed to address the splicing needs for factory, manufacturing, laboratory, and R&D applications.
“The 100M and 100P series splicers further [...]
August 19, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has announced that it has implemented packet-capture capabilities across its entire Ethernet test portfolio. The new feature is designed to enable field technicians to easily capture and decode 10-Mbps to 10-Gbps Ethernet traffic at full line rate to isolate and analyze application-layer configuration problems.
By adding packet-capture and decode capabilities [...]
August 18, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has added support for tunable differential phase-shift keying (DPSK) testing on the FTB/IQS-8140 (40G/43G) Transport Blazer modules. The capability enables field engineers to verify the individual line-side channels of 40G DPSK DWDM networks, EXFO says.
Complemented by an OTN Intrusive Through mode for monitoring individual DWDM channels at reconfigurable optical [...]
August 10, 2010 – EXFO Inc. says it has increased the processing speed of its FTB-5240S Optical Spectrum Analyzer, which is purpose-built for fast and accurate DWDM network commissioning and high-speed network upgrades up to 40G. The module now operates 10X to 20X faster, depending on the application being run, EXFO asserts.
When equipped with in-band [...]
July 28, 2010 – Ericsson, a leading provider of fiber optic network solutions, has signed a contract with Radius Infratel Pvt. Ltd. of India to meet the growing demand for broadband access across India via an open access fiber to the home (FTTH) network. Radius will build on previous FTTH deployments with a new build [...]
July 27, 2010 – JDSU has introduced a new jitter feature for the JDSU Optical Network Tester series (ONT-503, 506 and 512). The module makes the ONT as the first and only jitter analysis tool able to conduct both jitter and wander measurements on 10-Gigabit Ethernet Synchronous Ethernet (SyncE) devices and systems, JDSU asserts. These [...]
July 7, 2010 – JDSU has added ODU0 and ODUFlex testing capabilities to the ONT test system, which offers an optical transport network (OTN) feature set and interfaces from OTU1 (2.7G) to OTU4 (111.8G).
These enhancements enable implementation of a two-layer network approach with a packet layer based on Ethernet/IP and a transport layer based on [...]
June 28, 2010 – Furukawa Electric Co. Ltd. (FEC), and the U.S.-based OFS, Telecommunications Division have announced the commercial release of the latest clad alignment hand-held fusion splicer, the FITEL S123 fusion splicer series, to the global market.
“The FITEL S123 fusion splicer brings both speed and durability for last-mile applications,” said Linda Dembowski, general manager, [...]
June 18, 2010 – JDSU has added Optical Transport Network (OTN) capabilities to its 100GE test suite, which now offers advanced OTU3 (43GE) and OTU4 (112GE) test features to help transport Ethernet over longer distances for high-speed networks.
Optical Transport Networks running on OTU3/4 add the framing, management layer, and forward error correction (FEC) on top [...]
June 16, 2010 – Agilent Technologies Inc. expanded its digital communications analyzer (DCA) portfolio with the 86100D DCA-X wide-bandwidth oscilloscope. The DCA-X is designed to provide engineers with the tools needed to characterize their high-speed digital designs easily and accurately.
The DCA-X mainframe platform will allow engineers to make next-generation measurements that include integrated de-embedding capability. [...]
