TEST & MEASUREMENT

Fiber optic testing involves a variety of equipment and applies to myriad applications. OTDRs, BERT sets, optical spectrum analyzers, power meters, light sources, and other instruments are common tools of the fiber optic testing trade. You’ll find fiber optic testing news, products, and application information here.

Test & Measurement NEWS & PRODUCTS

Digital Lightwave offers portable 40G/100G test instruments

Fiber-optic test and measurement equipment specialist Digital Lightwave, Inc. has introduced...

JDSU drops some low-speed test products

JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU; and TSX: JDU) revealed May 1 that it plans to stop selling test instrume...

Ixia enhances 100GbE visibility for service providers and large enterprises

Ixia (NASDAQ:XXIA) says it has added new capabilities to its Ixia Anue Net Tool Optimizer (N...

Huawei unveils embedded OTDR prototype with high split ratio

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd. says it has developed an embedded optical time domain reflectome...

GL Communications enhances telecom test and measurement services

ID Photonics adds C-Band and L-Band tunable laser engine to CoBrite line

German test and measurement instrument developer ID Photonics says it has added a tunable la...

Teledyne LeCroy offers 45-GHz optical modulation analyzer

Teledyne LeCroy, with the help of Coherent Solutions (formerly Southern Photonics) used OFC/...

Sunrise Telecom upgrades RxT Ethernet Service Activation Platform

Test and measurement instrument company Sunrise Telecom Inc. (OTC: SRTI) has added operation...

EDitorial GUIDES

New perspectives on OTN

Optical Transport Network (OTN) technology is rapidly replacing SONET/SDH in packet-optimized networks. As new network needs arise, ...

New era emerges for submarine networks

We are currently in a new era of submarine network construction and upgrade. New systems are being constructed, and established sys...

The next generation of 100G

Now that 100-Gbps transmission is reaching the field, work is already underway on the second generation of the technology. Upcoming...

Fiber powers mobile backhaul

The traffic demands mobile broadband have created have driven operators to rethink their mobile backhaul strategies. Many have concl...

The year ahead in optical communications

Of course, no one truly knows all that the future will bring – but that won’t stop us from making predictions. Here’s a compendium o...

Fiber optics for the data center

As capacity demands climb and footprints grow in the data center, fiber-optic technology becomes increasingly appealing for communic...

High-Speed Packet Transport

Service providers of all stripes – from telcos to cable operators and wholesalers to managed data services providers – are seeing an...

Fiber-optic advances for the enterprise

With bandwidth demands growing in enterprise networks, fiber-optic technology development is keeping pace. From finding ways to mini...

Integration as an enabler for next-generation equipment design

Next-generation optical communications systems have to keep pace with the ever-increasing data rate and functionality requirements o...

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The Lightwave Blog

Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

HuaweI: We're not quitting U.S.

April 25, 2013
Huawei would like you to know that while it has decided that it's unlikely to achieve rampant success in the U.S. carrier network equipment market, it's not pulling up stakes and leaving. As previously reported, Eric Xu, Huawei executive vice president, told attendees at an analyst conference this week that "we are not interested ...

The Lightwave Guest Blog

Jim Theodoras

by Jim Theodoras
ADVA Optical Networking

Ethernet runs out of steam

February 1, 2013
Big news on the higher-speed Ethernet front. No, not that work has begun on 400 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE), thus setting the bar low, but rather the intention to go for 1.6 Terabit Ethernet (TbE) afterward. Yes, that’s right. After deca...

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