Transceiver range covers all 10Gbit/s fibre optics

Agilent Technologies has released a complete family of 10Gbit/s Ethernet, Fibre Channel and Sonet/SDH fibre-optic transceivers for enterprise, storage and metro networks.

Agilent Technologies has released a complete family of 10Gbit/s Ethernet, Fibre Channel and Sonet/SDH fibre-optic transceivers for enterprise, storage and metro networks.

Agilent's new 10Gbit Xenpak, X2 and XFP MSA-compliant fibre-optic transceivers cover all major physical media device types and link distances, and are hot-pluggable.

These new transceivers also offer industry-leading optical, electrical, thermal and digital diagnostics performance.

Agilent's new 10Gbit/s fibre optic transceivers provide comprehensive coverage and superior performance for the fast-growing number of 10Gbit applications in enterprise storage and metro networking equipment.

These versatile transceiver form factors allow customers to scale port densities from high-end multiport routers and switches to single-port network interface cards and host bus adapters.

"Agilent was instrumental in the development of all three 10Gbit MSAs and is now rolling out a large portfolio of high-performance Xenpak, X2 and XFP fibre-optic transceivers, all backed by the assurance of supply and quality our customers have come to expect", said Tom Fawcett, Worldwide Marketing Manager for Agilent's Fibre Optic Products Division.

"As the world's number-one supplier of fibre-optic transceivers, we are globally positioned to advise customers in their next-generation 10Gbit designs, and to ramp volume as their needs dictate".

Agilent's new 10Gbit/s devices include a range of 10 to 40km solutions, all qualified to Telecordia GR468.

The company is also leading a broad industry effort to create a short-reach optical standard for 10Gbit/s transmission over 220m of FDDI-grade multimode fibre.

This fibre is used extensively in enterprise building backbones and campus connections.

Agilent expects to migrate this technology to its Xenpak, X2 and XFP platforms.

The company is demonstrating multimode Xenpak samples at the OFC Conference.

Agilent's Xenpak 10Gbit Ethernet portfolio includes the following fibre optic transceiver modules: the HFCT-701XB 10km 10GBASE-LR optical transceiver; the HFCT-701XBD 10km 10GBase-LR optical transceiver that features digital diagnostics, including real-time monitoring of the transceiver's temperature, supply voltage, laser bias current, transmitted optical power and received optical power; and the HFCT-703XBD 40km 10GBase-ER with digital diagnostics.

Agilent's X2 10Gbit portfolio includes the following fibre-optic transceiver modules: the HFCT-701X2D, which is a natural evolution of Agilent's market-leading Xenpak 10km 10GBase-LR and features digital diagnostics in lopak, midpak and hipak form factors, as defined in the X2 MSA; and the HFCT-721X2D includes all the advanced capability of the HFCT-701X2D while conforming to the Fibre Channel data rate and register specification.

It is available in lopak, midpak and hipak form factors, as defined in the X2 MSA.

Agilent's XFP 10Gbit portfolio includes the following fibre-optic transceiver modules: the HFCT-711XPD 1310nm with digital diagnostics, which supports Ethernet 10GBase-LR (10km LAN PHY, 10.3125Gbit/s), and 10GBase-LW (10km WAN PHY, 9.58464Gbit/s), as well as Fibre Channel 10Gbit serial PMD, type 1200-SM-LL-L, (10km 10.51875Gbit/s), and Sonet/SDH (7km OC-192/STM-64 rate 9.9532Gbit/s) Telcordia GR-253-Core SR-1 and 2 km ITU-T G.691 STM64 I64.1; and the HFCT-721XPD 10km, 1300nm, lower cost Ethernet and Fibre Channel only version that features digital diagnostics.

The HFCT-701XB and HFCT-701XBD (10km) Xenpak fibre-optic transceivers are available now through Agilent's direct sales channel.

A 220m multimode-fibre Xenpak version is sampling to select customers, and is expected to be released once the IEEE specification is stable.

The HFCT-703XBD (40km) Xenpak is sampling now.

The HFCT-701X2D (Ethernet) X2, HFCT-721X2D (Fibre Channel) X2, HFCT-711XPD (Sonet/SDH, Ethernet, Fibre Channel) XFP, and HFCT-721XPD (Ethernet, Fibre Channel) XFP are sampling now, with broad availability expected in mid-2004.

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