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News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: Packet Blazer SAN FTB-8515
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 31 March 2003
Module extends tester to Fibre Channel
SANs
The Packet Blazer SAN FTB-8515 is a Fibre Channel test module for installation and commissioning of emerging storage area network (SAN)-based services in carrier markets.
The Packet Blazer SAN FTB-8515 is a Fibre Channel test module for installation and commissioning of emerging storage area network (SAN)-based services in carrier markets Fibre Channel is an advanced transmission protocol increasingly found in SANs
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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Network service providers (NSPs) are now extending transparent Fibre Channel circuits in access and metro networks to multiple locations across SANs in order to increase revenues.
According to a recent report from Pioneer Consulting, a market research firm specialising in high-speed telecommunications networks and technologies, the global SAN equipment market is expected to grow from approximately US $7.5 billion in 2002 to nearly US $84 billion in 2007.
The Packet Blazer SAN module, which is contained inside EXFO's best-of-class FTB-400 field-testing platform, provides field technicians with highly accurate bit-error rate (BER) values that reflect the quality of their transmission systems.
Another functionality is its capability to qualify the delay or latency introduced by the transport network, which is a critical element in deploying SAN-based services.
EXFO, with an established base of more than 10,000 test platforms worldwide, is well positioned to address the complete service provisioning needs of NSPs for optical, Sonet/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and, now, SAN applications.
"The introduction of our Fibre Channel test module allows us to address the emerging SAN extension market developed by carriers, who are tapping into new revenue-generating services from their optical transport network infrastructures", said Giovanni Forte, Vice-President of Product Management at EXFO Protocol, a wholly owned subsidiary of EXFO.
"This new module further adds value to our all-in-one test solution, which we were the first to bring to the marketplace.
With this latest addition to our family of more than a dozen test modules, the FTB-400 platform becomes the most complete and cost-effective DWDM and next-generation Sonet/SDH field-testing solution on the market today".
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