Agilent Technologies Dramatically Reduces Cost of Test with Introduction of Enhanced Optical Manufacturing Test Products.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers AMSTERDAM Amsterdam, city, Netherlands Amsterdam (ăm`stərdăm', Dutch ämstərdäm`), city (1994 pop. 724,096), constitutional capital and largest city of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, North Holland prov. , The Netherlands--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 1, 2001 ECOC ECOC European Conference on Optical Communications ECOC Error Correcting Output Codes ECOC Experimental Combat Operations Center ECOC Enhanced Combat Operation Center ECOC Emotional Cycle of Change 2001 Agilent Technologies This article needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. Inc. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :A) today announced the addition of three new test solutions designed to reduce the cost of test for optical manufacturers. The company also announced that it is currently working with several partners to offer customized solutions for passive component test, a major step toward automation in optical component manufacturing. In a period of higher network costs, decreased revenues per Mb/s (megabits per second (unit) megabits per second - (Mbps, Mb/s) Millions of bits per second. A unit of data rate. 1 Mb/s = 1,000,000 bits per second (not 1,048,576). E.g. Ethernet can carry 10 Mbps. ) and lower margins, these solutions cut the cost and complexity of test, increase bandwidth, accelerate time to market, and help customers reset cost/revenue ratios. "Despite the downturn Downturn The transition point between a rising, expanding economy to a falling, contracting one. downturn A decline in security prices or economic activity following a period of rising or stable prices or activity. in the industry, traffic volumes continue to grow and eventually service providers will need to add new capacity in the network while closing the revenue/cost gap. Service Providers will expect manufacturers to provide new network elements that deliver huge improvements in terms of price and performance," said Werner Werner is a name of Germanic origins that could refer to numerous people or entities.
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New and enhanced Agilent manufacturing products introduced at ECOC will include: -- New dual optical plug-in modules for the 86100A Infiniium Digital Communications Analyzer combined with the multiple database software enable manufacturers of very short reach optics to maximize throughput and reduce test cost by allowing simultaneous eye-mode analysis on four optical channels. This eliminates the expense of additional mainframes, simplifies test setup and reduces test time by a factor of three. -- A second generation Passive Component Test System (PCT2000), the market's first automated, fully integrated turnkey solution that tests both pigtailed and non-pigtailed planar devices, significantly reduces alignment and test time, cuts cost of test, increases throughput, and helps enable next-generation optical networks. -- The enhanced Photonic Foundation Library (PFL), a highly flexible and scalable measurement control and analysis software that leads the way to automation enables multistation and shared test equipment support, allowing optical component and subsystems manufacturers to significantly reduce test setup time and test cost while increasing throughput. The software includes additional library functions and the Photonic Analysis Toolbox, a ready-to-go, easy-to-operate user interface that speeds component testing. -- Customized Test Solutions, an Agilent initiative to provide highly customized solutions in the areas of TFF Test, AWG Chip, Fiber Alignment and Wafer Probing will help network equipment and optical component manufacturers accelerate the implementation of custom systems to improve the overall performance and competitive advantage of their customers. Agilent has worked closely with Instrumentation Engineering Inc., Amfax Ltd., Cascade Microtech, Mindready Solutions Inc., Physik Instrumente (PI) GmbH & Co, Veeco Instruments Inc, and Workstation Source to enable customers to accelerate the transition from prototype to volume manufacturing. Agilent in Communications Agilent Technologies is a leading provider of components, test, measurement, monitoring and management solutions for the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. . Agilent enables designers, manufacturers and service providers to accelerate the delivery of next-generation devices, networks and services. Agilent's broad set of solutions and services includes optical, wireless, Internet Internet Publicly accessible computer network connecting many smaller networks from around the world. It grew out of a U.S. Defense Department program called ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network), established in 1969 with connections between computers at the and broadband technologies broadband technology Telecommunications devices, lines, or technologies that allow communication over a wide band of frequencies, and especially over a range of frequencies divided into multiple independent channels for the simultaneous transmission of different signals. that span the entire communications lifecycle. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics and life sciences. The company's 43,000 employees serve customers in more than 120 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $9.4 billion in fiscal year 2000, as restated to reflect the sale of its healthcare business. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. |
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