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News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: EPX6000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 15 September 2003
Network tests optimised for multiservice
platforms
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has a new network testing application optimised for carriers commissioning and turning up new services on multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPPs).
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has a new network testing application optimised for carriers commissioning and turning up new services on multiservice provisioning platforms (MSPPs) This application enables EXFO to offer the industry's first test solution focused and optimised for the emerging MSPP market
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 28 Mar 2003 at 8.00am (UK)
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As part of the EPX test system, this application leverages EXFO's EPX6000 2.5Gbit+ multirate transceiver to simultaneously exercise the entire channelised bandwidth of an MSPP grooming node, also called deep channelisation testing.
The new independent path control feature of the EPX6000 allows simultaneous tests to be run independently on each channel embedded within a Sonet trunk signal.
Additionally, the support of new emerging concatenated channel types, such as STS-6c, STS-9c and STS-24c, makes this test application ready for next-generation Sonet services like Ethernet-over-Sonet (EoS) carried across MSPP networks.
"Carriers now use MSPPs for their next-generation Sonet infrastructures.
The multiservice ability and crossconnect fabric of these network elements are extremely powerful, but can also make the task of network testing that more complex.
We now provide carriers with an unparalleled level of testing power for such networks and can make their jobs all the more simple at the same time", said Jim Stevens, EXFO's Vice-President of Product Management and Chief Technology Officer - Protocol.
New features of the EPX6000 2.5Gbit+ multirate transceiver also include independent transmit sequencing and receive capture of transport overhead bytes as well as variable transport overhead byte delay to emulate long lengths of fibre.
These features are valuable for thorough verification testing of MSPP network elements.
Beyond its multirate ability to operate at OC-3 (155Mbit/s), OC-12 (622Mbit/s) and OC-48 (2.5Gbit/s), the EPX6000 module can also be complemented by the EPX6100 module upgrade to provide the same level of deep channelisation but at OC-192 (10Gbit/s), thus protecting the carrier's investment.
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