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News Release from: JDSU | Subject: T-BERD/MTS-8000
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 12 February 2008
Field tester adds faster fibre coverage
Engineered to address the growing demands for installation and troubleshooting of Fibre Channel services in metro networks.
JDSU has introduced the industry's first field test system to combine 4G and 10G Fibre Channel test support with traditional transport test capabilities such as Sonet/SDH, Ethernet and OTN Available for the T-BERD/MTS-8000 Transport module, the new functionality is engineered to address the growing demands for installation and troubleshooting of Fibre Channel services in metro networks
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 16 Mar 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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"Fibre Channel is a disruptive technology presenting new challenges in the design and deployment of high-bandwidth next-generation fibre networks", says Dave Holly, Senior Vice President and General Manager of JDSU's Field Service Communications Test and Measurement business segment.
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"With its new Fibre Channel and related triple play test functionality, the T-BERD/MTS-8000 continues to serve our customers as the only test tool on the market that combines these technologies in a single test solution, enabling them to build their triple play networks and service metro network technologies".
JDSU offers the industry's only single-source metro Ethernet test portfolio that facilitates analysis of all seven layers of metro Ethernet services - the metro Ethernet deployment "lifecycle" that includes lab and service verification testing.
This unique portfolio of broadband-enabling test solutions includes JDSU's MTS/T-BERD 8000, NetComplete for metro Ethernet (including the QT-600), HST-3000, DA-3400/3600, SmartClass Ethernet, FST-2802, ONT and TestPoint product lines.
The JDSU portfolio provides an integrated, end-to-end approach to testing Metro Ethernet products and services, including development and production, installation and maintenance, troubleshooting and overall service assurance.
Combining multiple test capabilities with unprecedented levels of field modularity, JDSU's T-BERD/MTS-8000 is a scalable field platform for installing and maintaining short-haul, long-haul, FTTx, Metro, CWDM, transport, data and DWDM networks.
Advanced modularity enables the T-BERD/MTS-8000 to integrate options for video microscope, VFL, light source, power meter, and optical talk set with application modules for Sonet, SDH, Ethernet, multimode and single mode OTDRs, PMD, spectral attenuation, CD, WDM and single-port and dual-port OSA.
Compatibility with more than 10,000 field-proven units already deployed worldwide by every major telecommunications network operator enables easy migration to new network technologies while continuing to reduce expenses.
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