Agilent Technologies Dramatically Reduces Time to Market for Optical Manufacturers with Launch of Industry-First Optical Test Solutions.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 R&D-focused Solutions Enable Optical Component and Network Equipment Manufacturers to Push the Limits of High-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. Optical Communications Optical communications The transmission of speech, data, video, and other information by means of the visible and the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. 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 unveiled six new additions to its broad portfolio of optical and electrical test solutions for R&D, including several industry-first products. These breakthrough solutions will give engineers unprecedented insight into the performance of optical devices, improving the capability of today's 10 Gb/s metro and edge networks and allowing rapid development of tomorrow's 40 Gb/s devices. "Developers of current and next-generation optical technology face two major challenges," said Werner Huettemann, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Communications Network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. Solutions Business Unit. "First, with application and bandwidth demand growing fastest at the edge, designers must eliminate the bottleneck A lessening of throughput. It often refers to networks that are overloaded, which is caused by the inability of the hardware and transmission lines to support the traffic. It can also refer to a mismatch inside the computer where slower-speed peripheral buses and devices prevent the CPU at the metro core. Second, they need to dramatically cut the cost of data transmitted in the metro and edge networks. Agilent's 10 Gb/s and 40 Gb/s test solutions will help engineers achieve both goals, whether they choose to increase the number of wavelengths available or increase the data rates using fewer wavelengths." As data rates increase and more channels are added, optical designers need the latest test equipment to quickly and precisely verify (1) To prove the correctness of data. (2) In data entry operations, to compare the keystrokes of a second operator with the data entered by the first operator to ensure that the data were typed in accurately. See validate. the accuracy and performance of their designs. This reduces design-cycles and helps get new products to market faster. New products for R&D being announced at ECOC include the following: -- The Agilent 83453A high-resolution spectrometer, developed in conjunction with Agilent Labs, allows extremely fine sub-picometer spectral resolution measurements on tunable lasers and transmitters. For the first time designers have an integrated, fully specified solution that provides 1,000 times narrower resolution than conventional grating-based optical spectrum analyzers. -- The Agilent OmniBER OTN 10G communications performance analyzer is the industry's first optical channel tester for design and verification of optical devices and systems to ITU-T G.709. It supports testing of OTN equipment at 10.71 Gb/s, as well as SONET and SDH protocols from 1.5 Mb/s to 10 Gb/s. -- New modules for the Agilent 86100A Infiniium DCA (digital communications analyzer) provide accurate 40 Gb/s waveform analysis and are able to break through the picosecond jitter threshold by allowing designers to see signals as never before. -- Two new models for the Agilent 8614xB optical spectrum analyzer (OSA) family enable new methods for analysis of DWDM systems and lasers. For R&D applications, the OSA's filter mode allows engineers to isolate tightly modulated DWDM signals for accurate and flexible single channel characterization. -- New modular attenuators are ideal for the characterization of 40 Gb/s receivers, transceivers and line cards. These instruments are the industry's first modular attenuators with integrated power control for easier, faster and more reliable bit error rate test. -- The Agilent ParBERT 81250 43G and E2150A BERT provide flexible bit error ratio (BER) testing for R&D applications. These modular VXI-based solutions allow optical and electrical BER testing on digital transmission lines to 40 Gb/s, and 16:1 and 4:1 multiplexers/demultiplexers to 43.2 Gb/s. The ParBERT 43G is the only BERT solution on the market today which can test both sides of OC-768 muxes and demuxes. 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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