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News Release from: EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: FTB-8120 and FTB-8130 Transport Blazer
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 17 February 2006
Advanced network characterization,
troubleshooting
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has announced the FTB-8120 and FTB-8130 Transport Blazer SONET/SDH test modules for the recently introduced FTB-200 Compact Platform.
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has announced the the FTB-8120 and FTB-8130 Transport Blazer SONET/SDH test modules for the recently introduced FTB-200 Compact Platform The FTB-8120 Transport Blazer supports test signals from 64 Kb/s (DS0/E0) up to 2.5 Gb/s (OC-48/STM-16), with upgradeability to 10 Gb/s (OC-192/STM-64), ensuring that customers' investments can be leveraged as their future testing needs evolve
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 8 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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The FTB-8120 Transport Blazer is also available in 155 Mb/s (OC-3/STM-1) or 622 Mb/s (OC-12/STM-4) configurations, offering users a wider range of options to better meet their immediate testing requirements without sacrificing upgradeability.
The FTB-8130 Transport Blazer offers a full range of testing rates from 64 Kb/s to 10 Gb/s.
Both test modules support an extensive list of DSn, SONET, PDH and SDH features, allowing users to perform a wide range of tests from simple bit-error rate (BER) analysis to more advanced network characterization and troubleshooting.
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Optional next-generation SONET/SDH hardware versions for both modules offer a smooth upgradeability path to Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH test functions.
The combination of advanced SONET/SDH testing capabilities with the small and lightweight FTB-200 platform delivers the industry's most versatile and technically advanced handheld SONET/SDH test solution on the market.
The FTB-8120 and FTB-8130 Transport Blazer modules also come equipped with EXFO's exclusive SmartMode feature.
SmartMode provides automatic discovery of the SONET/SDH signal structure and real-time monitoring of all discovered high-order paths as well as user-defined low-order paths, providing the ideal solution for quick and simple isolation of network faults.
EXFO is the first and only vendor to offer a powerful, multi-channel SONET/SDH monitoring solution in a compact platform.
"Network operators worldwide are increasingly looking for more compact test solutions to fulfill their day-to-day testing duties without sacrificing functionality and upgradeability," said Benoit Fleury, EXFO's Vice-President of Protocol-Layer Product Management.
"The FTB-8120 and FTB-8130 modules, combined with the leading edge FTB-200's full suite of optical and protocol test modules, are establishing the new standard in the industry by offering field technicians all the critical test elements to quickly and efficiently turn up, maintain, and troubleshoot SONET/SDH networks in a single, reasonably priced, future-proof solution." The FTB-8120 and FTB-8130 modules will be showcased at OFC/NFOEC, booth 1401 in Anaheim, California, from March 7 to 9; at CeBIT, booth C18/Hall 16, in Hanover, Germany, from March 9 to 15; and at TelecomNext, booth 261 in Las Vegas, Nevada, from March 20 to 22.
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