End-to-End Solutions NETWORK SOLUTION VENDORS DESIGN AND VERIFICATION FROM DEVELOPMENT TO DEPLOYMENT

THE FUTURE OF THE LAB IS HERE Video, cloud computing and other new bandwidth-intensive applications are forcing operators to rapidly adapt and increase core and metro network capacity. At the same time, network solution vendors (NSVs) are continuously enhancing their 40G/100G cross-connect offering to ensure that it is able to carry, switch and terminate all rate services in line with proper bandwidth usage without compromising their quality. BUT, TOUGH CHALLENGES AWAIT › › › › Tedious manual testing Lack of efficiency and inaccurate results Inability to test remotely Inability to run simultaneou...

FROM DEVELOPMENT TO DEPLOYMENT, WE HAVE THE ANSWER EXFO brings innovative and multiservice converged networks testing solutions for 100G, 200G, 400G and beyond, addressing the needs of NSVs around the globe with regard to design, verification, and manufacturing. Accelerate your time-to-market and save costs with EXFO’s innovative solutions. Fully customized testing solutions to fit NSVs' needs: NEW! Our agile and revolutionary lab solution includes the LTB-8—a highly scalable and compact platform featuring the industry’s best 100G port density and hot-swap capabilities for no downtime or interruption...

EXFO'S WIDE RANGE OF SOLUTIONS FOR HIGH-SPEED TRANSMISSION AND AUTOMATION MANUFACTURING DISCOVER SCALABLE SOLUTIONS THAT MEET NETWORK SOLUTION VENDORS' TESTING NEEDS.

10G, 40G AND 100G SYSTEM VERIFICATION COMPREHENSIVE MULTI-APPLICATION SUPPORT IQS-2800 Once various network elements have been integrated into a complete system, NSVs must test their performance and interactions to validate that the complete system complies with relevant standards and is able to perform reliably under various operating conditions. Occasionally, these tests are also performed for customer demonstrations, or system acceptance prior to delivery. The biggest challenges for NSVs stem from the multiple services needing to be supported, the variety of tests to be performed, and the...

OPTICAL TRANSCEIVER TESTING ERROR-FREE TRANSMISSION Optical transceivers, which are devices that include both a transmitter and a receiver in a single package, are now widely used in 1G-to-100G optical networks. Pluggable transceivers come in various form factors tailored to different applications and data rates. Some of the most common form factors are SFP+, XFP, CFP, CFP2, CFP4 and QSFP28. These transceivers must comply with specifications and requirements of multiple standards, in addition to recommendations and multisource agreements (MSAs). In addition, vendors must perform extensive tests...

MANUFACTURING AUTOMATION DELIVERING DURABLE PERFORMANCE For improved manufacturing yields and lower production costs, automation of procedures and testing of multiple devices under test (DUT) have become a necessity for NSVs. Such automation enables all testing to be performed faster and more effectively with reduced risk of error. The ability to switch between network elements, DUTs and test instruments is critical to optimizing system automation. Parallel testing of multiple DUTs, all requiring multiple tests and sequencing, can be easily performed using protocol and data-rate-independent MXS-9100...

100G/200G/400G COHERENT SYSTEMS TRANSMITTER TESTING AND OPTIMIZATION Coherent transmitter testing and optimization in lab and manufacturing is critical in order to achieve the system performances expected with such high-speed transmission technology. One of the inherent challenges of such testing and optimization is that most transmitter problems can only be seen with a highly accurate modulation analyzer providing distortionfree signal recovery. This is all the more true in the case of new Nyquist filtering or raised cosine shaping applied to 200G and 400G signals. EXFO’s expertise has been integrated...

MULTISERVICE FIELD TESTING DEPLOYMENT, VALIDATION AND TROUBLESHOOTING To meet the challenge of supporting the ever-growing demand for IP services consuming huge amounts of bandwidth, system manufacturers are continually investing in next-generation packet-based network elements capable of adapting to a wide range of client services and scaling to higher bandwidths while reducing costs and optimizing bandwidth management. The network is becoming more and more complex, with multiple technologies such as Ethernet, Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH and optical transport network (OTN) combined within the same...

CFP/QSFP VALIDATION FLEXIBLE AND FUTURE-PROOF COVERAGE NSVs are now including 100G LR4 C form-factor pluggables (CFPs), 100 LR4 CFP2s and CFP4s with all shipments of high-speed interface network cards. This is being done for two key reasons, the first being that they need to optimize and characterize the full end-to-end path for optimal transmission quality. In addition, because CFPs have an insertion factor limitation where multiple insertions can degrade the quality of the signal through the electrical interface, testing the specific card with a CFP (sold together in a single package) minimizes...

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MUXPONDER TESTING BREAKTHROUGH-LEVEL QUALIFICATION NSVs have been releasing new muxponders in order to meet the challenge of supporting the ever-growing demand for Internet protocol (IP) services consuming huge amounts of bandwidth. Meanwhile, system manufacturers are continually investing in next-generation packet-based network elements capable of adapting to a wide range of client services and scaling to higher bandwidths while reducing costs and optimizing bandwidth management. These new muxponders can aggregate multiple signals such as SONET/ SDH and FC—in addition to Ethernet into OTN, which...