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100G/40G Multiservice Test Module — FTB-85100G Packet Blazer

 

The industry’s most compact, portable 100G Ethernet and 40G Ethernet multiservice test module.

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Applications

  • Purpose-built for applications where thorough testing, portability, true ruggedness and ease of use are required
  • 100G switch and router engine stress tests against demanding corner cases with full-line-rate Ethernet and IP packet generation at over 148 million packets per second

Key Features

  • 100G Ethernet tester fully compliant with IEEE 802.3ba standard and OTU4/OTU3 as per ITU-T G.709
  • OTU4/OTU3 and OTU3e1/e2 with forward error correction (FEC) and optical transport layer (OTL) testing capabilities as software options
  • 100G/40G Ethernet mapping over OTN and OTU4/OTU3 single and multistage multiplexing capabilities for transponder and muxponder testing
  • 100G/40G IP traffic at 100% transmission with full Ethernet statistics, packet capture and advanced traffic filtering capabilities
  • RFC 2544 including throughput, back-to-back, latency and frame loss measurements with five distinct Smart Loopback modes
  • Fully integrated testing capabilities for assessing CFP and 10x10 MSA-compliant optical modules with CFP health check as well as automated stress testing capabilities and full MDIO access
  • Physical-layer performance assessment: PCS into CAUI/XLAUI and logical into physical mappings, skew testing and advanced signal conditioning capabilities
  • Combines with the FTB-8130NGE and offers 10M-to-112G multiservice testing capabilities in a single instrument for lab testing and field deployments with remote management, battery operation, predefined user configurations and complete automation capabilities

100G Ethernet—A Rapidly Emerging Market 

The ongoing growth of enterprise, residential and mobile multimedia services (such as peer-to-peer, IPTV and video-over-Internet) is producing unprecedented levels of traffic, stressing the bandwidth capabilities of metro and core transport networks. Consequently, carriers worldwide are actively seeking strategies to efficiently and cost-effectively scale IP packet transmission. Designed to facilitate this transition, 100G/40G Ethernet technologies give carriers the flexibility to phase in the implementation of these higher-speed rates to better align capacity increases with their specific growth and budget strategies. 

These new data rates are based on the IEEE 802.3ba standard. The most significant concept introduced in this new working standard is the use of parallel optics: which strongly influence the physical coding sublayer (PCS) implementation—one of the new building blocks for 100G/40G Ethernet. The key difference between the IEEE 802.3ba standard and its predecessor is the introduction of PCS lanes (formerly known as virtual lanes). PCS lanes provide an effective method for handling various parallel optical configurations and, therefore, demand a comprehensive solution that can easily qualify and integrate both 40G/100G CFP and 10x10 MS-compliant pluggable optics. Thorough PCS testing is among the critical layer 1/2/3/4 tests needed to ensure that 100G/40G Ethernet equipment and network services can be deployed rapidly and confidently. 

The Industry’s Most Portable 100G/40G Multiservice Tester

Leveraging over a decade of FPGA experience, EXFO has integrated Ethernet (IEEE 802.3ba) and OTN (ITU-T G.709) functionalities into the same module, the FTB-85100G Packet Blazer. With this upgrade, you will be able to efficiently and cost-effectively share the equipment in the lab, perform field trials and carry out early deployments. Purpose-built for applications where thorough testing, portability, true ruggedness and ease of use are required, this module offers powerful layer 1/2/3 Ethernet traffic generation and analysis, as well as RFC 2544 with Smart Loopback testing capabilities to stress and validate network elements and services against demanding corner cases. 

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