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 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 19, 2010 – JDSU has announced three new 10-Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) testing tools designed to accelerate the development, verification, benchmarking, and interoperability testing of next-generation converged Ethernet networks with emerging Data Center Bridging (DCB) and Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE) technology.
The Xgig High Density 10 GbE Load Tester Solution builds on JDSU’s storage area [...]
July 7, 2010 – LeCroy Corp. has launched the SierraFC M8-4, an 8G Fibre Channel protocol analysis platform. Operating at 2G, 4G, and 8G Fibre Channel signaling rates, 4 or 8 GB of recording memory, and either two or four recording channels, SierraFC M8-4 is designed to offer affordable, “world-class” protocol analysis capabilities in either [...]
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 30, 2010 – OptoTest Corp. has released the OP280 ribbon visual fault locator. Primarily designed to verify wiring of ribbon fiber connectors, hybrid cables, and distribution boxes quickly and conveniently, the OP280 is available pre-programmed with various sequences.
The OP280 comes with 12 red lasers, an internal rechargeable battery, and a standard USB or 5-VDC [...]
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 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. [...]
May 11, 2010 – Vytran, a leading provider of optical fiber processing solutions, has introduced the “LDC-400″ – an automated optical fiber cleaver that can be used to produce flat and angled cleaves on fibers ranging from 80 microns to 1.25 mm in diameter. A versatile precision tool, LDC-400 is designed to cleave standard and [...]
May 4, 2010 – LeCroy Corp., a leading provider of test solutions, announced that the sixth-generation of digital bandwidth interleave (DBI) technology has been demonstrated successfully in its design labs in New York.
The latest generation of technology will use new front-end chips to provide lower noise and higher bandwidths. Combining new silicon and improved DBI [...]
