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 [...]
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. Using the EXFO FTB-85100G Packet Blazer (40G/100G) and the Opnext 100GBase-LR4 CFP multisource agreement (MSA)-compliant optical module, the trials included generating 100GbE IP traffic at 100% wire speed with pseudo-random [...]
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. EXFO says the Ethernet analyzers’ feature set delivers the specific functionality and ease-of-use required by field technicians to meet increasingly demanding [...]
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. As part of its commitment to use state-of-the-art equipment and follow [...]
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. Deploying fast services on mesh networks requires the characterization of every single link [...]
December 1, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has released the FTB-5240BP field optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) designed to facilitate challenging network commissioning, upgrade, and troubleshooting for carriers and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs). EXFO’s latest tool boasts high resolution and allows field crews to analyze the spectral content of any modulation format, measure the optical [...]
November 30, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has announced the availability of a new software release that expands field-testing capabilities for mapping 10G Ethernet LAN signals over optical transport networks. This new functionality is incorporated across the Transport/Power Blazer product line — integrated multiservice test platforms designed to support SONET/SDH- and OTN-based transport networks, [...]
November 24, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has introduced a software suite that brings new functionalities to the FTB-8140 Transport Blazer 40/43 Gigabit SONET/SDH/OTN test module. The FTB-8140 Transport Blazer now supports full optical data unit (ODU) multiplexing capability as well as independent transmission/reception settings. With the ODU multiplexing functionality on the module, service [...]
November 4, 2009 – EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering Inc. has released a new software suite that provides bidirectional RFC 2544 enhanced functionalities on the AXS-200/850 Ethernet Test Set, a handheld performance assessment tool designed to simplify the installation, activation, and maintenance of Ethernet networks and services. Guaranteeing end-to-end service-level agreements (SLAs) is critical for today’s carrier-grade [...]
EXFO’s BRT-320A is a field-ready return loss test set offered in five configurations: 1310 nm, 1550 nm or 1625 nm (single-wavelength), as well as 1310/1550 nm or 1550/1625 nm (dual-wavelength). All come equipped with rapidly stabilizing TEC lasers and low-drift photodetectors to ensure constant optical return loss (ORL) measurements year after year.
