NETWORK TEST

Fiber-optic network test involves bit error rate tests, determining signal impairments, optical channel monitoring, protocol testing, and other aspects of network deployment and service assurance. Optical time-domain reflectometers (OTDRs), optical spectrum analyzers (OSAs), BERTs, and optical power meters are common tools.

Network Test NEWS & PRODUCTS

TraceSpan launches handheld GPON tester

TraceSpan Communications Inc. has released the GPON Tracer 380, which it claims is the first...

Fluke Networks Versiv family simplifies cable certification

Test and measurement specialists Fluke Networks aims to streamline and improve the cable cer...

VeEX to buy Sunrise Telecom assets

Telecommunications and CATV test equipment vendor VeEX Inc. has agreed to acquire “substanti...

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

Sunrise Telecom upgrades RxT Ethernet Service Activation Platform

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

Agilent offers reference-class 1270-nm to 1650-nm multiwavelength meter

Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) will display its new Agilent 86122C multiwavelength meter...

BaySpec offers FlexSpec optical channel performance monitor

BaySpec Inc. has introduced its FlexSpec series of optical channel performance monitors (OCP...

AFL unveils NOYES FOCIS PRO for fiber-optic connector inspection

AFL has unveiled the NOYES FOCIS PRO family of automatic fiber inspection systems. The fiber...

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Stephen Hardy

by Stephen Hardy
Editorial Director and Associate Publisher, Lightwave

No national fiber broadband network for U.S.

May 31, 2013
The folks at market research and analysis firm IHS (NYSE: IHS) recently made the assertion in a new report from their IHS Screen Digest Operator Mu...

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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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