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 [...]
March 30, 2010 – Finisar Corp., a leading er of high-speed optical communications, working with EXFO Inc. and Ixia, demonstrated a standards-compliant 100G Ethernet (100GE) optical link at OFC in San Diego last week. The demonstration consisted of an Ixia “K2″ 100G tester and an EXFO 40G/100G Ethernet Packet Blazer tester communicating error-free at 103.1 [...]
March 17, 2010 – EXFO Inc. announced that it has added optical transport network (OTN) testing capabilities to its FTB/IQS-85100G Packet Blazer 100G/40G Ethernet Test Modules. These include OTU4 (111.81 Gbps) and OTU3 (43.018 Gbps) full-line-rate testing, as well as framing and forward error correction (FEC) testing as per ITU-T G.709.
The new features enable qualification [...]
March 15, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has announced the availability of a software release that introduces new OTN testing capabilities to its Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines.
EXFO’s Transport Blazer and Power Blazer product lines already offer OTN testing capabilities. However, the new software release will add support the OTU1f and OTU2f test interfaces, [...]
January 11, 2010 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. and Opnext, Inc. have successfully completed their joint interoperability trials for testing IEEE-compliant 100-Gigabit Ethernet (100GbE) optics.
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December 9, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has launched the ETS-1000 Ethernet Analyzer. The test instrument is designed to enable easy and reliable turn-up and installation of carrier-grade Ethernet services over metro networks.
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December 8, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has announced that their newly launched FTB-5240S-P optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) module was exclusively selected by a Tier 1 European operator to support the deployment of a ROADM-based 40G next-generation network in the next three years.
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December 3, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has announced the standardization of the SOP sampling analysis (SSA) test method on which is based its FTB-5700, a single-ended dispersion analyzer designed to address characterization, upgrade, and opex challenges in metro mesh networks.
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