Module for intelligent test system tests 10 gigabit ethernet Lan/Wan interfaces and provides complete ethernet performance-assurance testing
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has announced the launch of the IQS-8510G Packet Blazer for testing 10Gigabit ethernet (GigE) interfaces in optical networks.
With increasing demand for 10GigE technology in the network core, system manufacturers and carrier labs can rely on Exfo's Packet Blazer for all their testing needs.
Advanced test capabilities, such as packet-jitter, traffic generation and analysis, and RFC 2544 (a well-established testing methodology that includes throughput, latency and frame-loss measurements), are ideally suited for ethernet-based or internet protocol devices and networks.
The IQS-8510G Packet Blazer, housed inside Exfo's widely deployed and rack-mounted IQS-500 intelligent test system, is designed for manufacturing environments, system verification, central offices and carrier lab applications.
"At Exfo, we have a long history of leveraging innovative test solutions onto multiple applications in order to address a broad range of customer needs, while maximising return on investment," said Benoit Fleury, Exfo's vice-president of protocol-layer product management.
"This latest offering, coming on the heels of our 10GigE product launch for the portable FTB-400 universal test system, is another example of our innovation processes at work for our customers.
"The end-result is that we are increasingly offering a broad suite of leading-edge datacom and transport test solutions to both carriers and systems vendors." The IQS-8510G Packet Blazer can characterise local and/or wide area network physical interfaces (Lan Phy and/or Wan Phy) with the same test module at all available wavelengths.
The Packet Blazer family of products tests ethernet connectivity in its native format 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.
It also features Exfo's unique Etherbert technology (patent pending) that provides bit-error-rate testing of ethernet interfaces.
Exfo is a test and measurement expert in the global telecommunications.
The telecom division, which represents the company's main business activity, offers fully integrated and complete test solutions to network service providers, system vendors and component manufacturers in approximately 70 countries.
Exfo says one of its strongest competitive advantages is its PC/Windows-based modular platforms that host a wide range of tests across optical, physical, data and network layers, while maximising technology reuse across several market segments.
The photonics and life sciences division mainly leverages core telecom technologies to offer value-added solutions in the life sciences and high-precision assembly sectors.
