Superior hardware design: native electrical interface, excellent signal quality, clean eye diagram and low error floor
BA-4000-L2 - BER tester with real traffic
Overview
Combined L1 BER tester and L2 traffic analyzer for 800G DR4/FR4/LR4 and 800G LPO transceivers
Highlights
Discover the BA-4000-L2
The BA-4000-L2, delivers a layer 2 framed signal to validate segmented FEC (DCO) and 200G per lane optic transceivers. Plus, its powerful equalizer and channel simulator are ideal for LPO testing.
Watch this short video introduction by EXFO’s Andrea Guglierame to learn more.
Powerful equalizer and channel simulator is ideal for LPO testing
With LPO transceivers, no DSP is present to precondition or equalize the electrical signal, as is done in retimed optics. Therefore, any change in signal integrity on the host side is reflected onto the optical side and the more times the signal is handed off, the more potential for introduction of bit errors. Traditional transceiver testing techniques can’t pick up this signal degradation so new, more powerful testing techniques are required. The BA-4000-L2 detects the presence of reflection, intersymbol interference (ISI) and FEC tail instability which are key performance indicators, capturing the presence of errors. Learn more.
Segmented FEC (DCO) and concatenated FEC (200G/lanes) architectures require L2 framed traffic
In the latest generation of optics and transceivers, the forward error correction (FEC) encoding and decoding function is moving from the host side to within the optical transceiver. With this evolution in functionality, transceivers are no longer agnostic electrical-to-optical converters and therefore FEC testing is required for applicable transceivers. The BA-4000-L2 delivers a layer 2 framed signal to validate DCO and 200G per lane optical transceivers.
