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Fiber optic testing in the 5G era: how to avoid the OPEX Vortex By Maury Wood | June 2020

EXFO and LightRiver collaborate to improve operator real-time inventory awareness By Claudio Mazzuca | May 2020

The 5G revolution: how DWDM can accelerate deployment and level costs By EXFO | April 2020

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Ethernet for 5G fronthaul: A key component in network evolution

Sébastien Prieur

June, 2020

Optical testing and monitoring

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400G and beyond: End-to-end qualification in transceiver manufacturing

Aldo Gutiérrez

June, 2020

NEMs and lab High speed networks (100G+)

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Understanding and testing Remote-PHY and DOCSIS 3.1

Gwenn Amice

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In the seven-layer OSI model, it is the physical layer. The physical layer consists of the basic networking transmission technologies of a network.