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News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: FTB-8510
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 May 2006
Ethernet testing comes to compact form
factor
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has launched the FTB-8510 Packet Blazer Ethernet test module for the recently introduced FTB-200 Compact Platform.
EXFO Electro-Optical Engineering has launched the FTB-8510 Packet Blazer Ethernet test module for the recently introduced FTB-200 Compact Platform As Ethernet service deployments continue to gain momentum, service providers must thoroughly test their converged IP-based networks in order to ensure conformance to service-level agreements (SLAs)
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 30 Apr 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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The Packet Blazer's list of features includes RFC 2544 testing (a well-known Ethernet-based test methodology that includes such parameters as frame loss, throughput and latency), multiple-stream generation and analysis, Ethernet quality-of-service (QoS) testing and packet jitter (frame-delay variation).
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Ethernet testing moves to higher layers
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has a new Ethernet test module, the FTB-8510B Packet Blazer, for advanced Ethernet and higher-layer test applications.
10 Gigabit Ethernet tester goes local and wide
Compact 10 Gigabit Ethernet test solution provides performance assurance and quality of service testing in local and wide area networks.
This latest innovation delivers the industry's first Ethernet tester with dual-platform capabilities, allowing the FTB-8510 Packet Blazer test module to be housed inside both the widely deployed FTB-400 Universal Test System (UTS) and lightweight FTB-200 Compact Platform.
"The addition of the Packet Blazer's Ethernet testing capabilities to the FTB-200 Compact Platform provides a cost-effective yet comprehensive tool for the rapid field deployment and troubleshooting of Ethernet-based services", said Benoit Fleury, EXFO's Vice-President of Protocol-Layer Product Management.
"This cross-platform capability, combined with the recently launched FTB-8120/30 next-generation Sonet/SDH test modules, demonstrates EXFO's commitment to provide the most advanced telecomms field-testing solutions".
"With the flexibility of integrating optical, telecomms and datacomms modules within the same compact platform, users now have a versatile test system that remains simple and effective".
Offered as a test module inside the FTB-400 UTS and now FTB-200 Compact Platform, the Packet Blazer brings service-level agreement verification to Ethernet-based packet services.
The Packet Blazer tests Ethernet connectivity in its native format: 10/100/1000 Base-T, 1000 Base-SX, 1000 Base-LX and 1000 Base-ZX for LAN-to-LAN services delivered via ATM, frame relay, next-generation Sonet/SDH, switched Ethernet, VLANs, dark fibre, wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) or other means.
The Packet Blazer also features EXFO's unique EtherBERT technology (patent pending) that provides bit-error-rate testing of Gigabit Ethernet interfaces.
This test solution is mostly used for WDM testing to assess quality of transmission.
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