The new meter is designed to let technicians perform in-service tests from the headend to the customer's premises while locating problems and preventing SLA penalties and maintenance downtime periods. The single-ended OTDR test solution is intended to enable one technician to respond to network failures and to complement existing test procedures for CWDM deployments.
The unit is tunable in the C-band and covers channel spacing of 100 GHz/50 GHz based on the ITU-T standard grid. The tunable laser also features a high dynamic range for metro/long-haul applications.
The meter is designed to provide validation and fault-finding of the physical layer, along with Ethernet service assessment from 10M to 100G to ensure SLAs are met. It features a 12-inch touchscreen, modularity, Windows 8 and commodity applications.