Agilent Technologies Introduces Optical Test Products for Metro Networks that Reduce Costs for Network Equipment Manufacturers and Service Providers.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUPERCOMM 2002 PALO ALTO Palo Alto, city, California Palo Alto (păl`ō ăl`tō), city (1990 pop. 55,900), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1894. Although primarily residential, Palo Alto has aerospace, electronics, and advanced research industries. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 7, 2002 Solutions Meet Complex Test Challenges as well as Accelerate Metro Product Development and Service Deployment 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 introduced new and enhanced optical test products for metro networks Metro Networks is a broadcasting outsourcing company based in Houston, Texas. It is a subsidiary of Westwood One, which is managed by CBS Radio. The company operates a number of local and regional news and traffic facilities that provide regular reports to affiliates, together with that will help network equipment manufacturers (NEMs) reduce costs while meeting the complex test challenges involved in designing and manufacturing the latest generation of metro devices. The products will also help service providers evaluate and select metro devices, reduce test time and quickly deploy metro services. Despite an overall reduction in service providers' capital expenditures during the past 18 months, investment in the metro network market continues to grow. While excess capacity exists in the long-haul long haul n. 1. A long distance: It is a long haul from New York to Los Angeles. 2. A long period of time: Over the long haul the candidates performed well. core network, metro bandwidth is still limited and relatively expensive compared to the core network. NEMs and service providers are working frantically fran·tic adj. 1. Highly excited with strong emotion or frustration; frenzied: frantic with worry. 2. to change the overall architecture and technology of the metro network and to dramatically reduce bandwidth costs. "Our customers need to reduce the cost per bit of transmitted data by about 25 percent each year, and cost reduction in the metro network is critical to this objective," says 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. "The latest metro devices will reduce complexity and expense, but the platforms present additional test challenges. Agilent's new metro solutions will help customers meet these challenges quickly and at a lower cost than ever before." Agilent's new and enhanced metro products include the following: -- The new Agilent OmniBER XM network simulator, which enables service verification testing for transport devices under real-life network traffic conditions. OmniBER XM provides increased test thoroughness while reducing the test time of optical cross connects, grooming and aggregation components and optical edge devices. -- The enhanced Agilent OmniBER OTN communications performance analyzer, the industry's first product that provides Gigabit Ethernet over SONET/SDH via generic framing procedure (GFP) and high-accuracy OTU-2 jitter testing up to 10.71 Gb/s. -- The improved Agilent RouterTester 900, the industry's most scalable system for validating the performance and flexibility of metro/edge routers. Enhancements include new interfaces and advanced testing capabilities for MPLS-VPN, IP multicast and IPv6 services. -- A multi-port, multi-rate Ethernet test option for Agilent's market-leading Transmission Test Set that makes it a fully integrated solution for metro and core networks. Agilent will demonstrate all of the new and enhanced products for the first time at Supercomm 2002 in Atlanta, June 4 to 6. 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 life cycle. About Agilent Technologies Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) is a global technology leader in communications, electronics and life sciences. The company's 39,000 employees serve customers in more than 120 countries. Agilent had net revenue of $8.4 billion in fiscal year 2001. Information about Agilent is available on the Web at www.agilent.com. |
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