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The Evolving Needs of Dispersion Testing in Today’s Next-Generation Networks

With new ROADM deployment and 10G/40G/100G, there is a shift in the requirements to test CD and PMD in metro areas. Today, CD and PMD testing need to be optimized for both metro and core networks.

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Troubleshooting Ethernet Services with Packet-Capture and Decode Capabilities—Part 1

As the service offering becomes more complex, network engineers and field technicians are required to respond to more troubleshooting service calls that require them to rapidly pinpoint, analyze and r...

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Deploying Session Border Controllers: Top 10 Questions

By deploying properly engineered SBCs at the edge of their networks, NSPs can be confident that their networks are secured and that QoS is guaranteed. However, before deploying SBCs, NSPs should ask t...

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OSNR in Next-Gen networks: polarization-resolved optical spectrum analysis allows fast and accurate in-band OSNR measurement

As next-gen networks employ ROADM and/or multiple-bit/symbol advanced modulation formats, use of traditional OSNR measurements leads to either over—or under—evaluation of the OSNR.

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Long-Term Evolution (LTE)—Part 2

This article examines the key technologies and approaches required to reach requirements, especially in the access network, using OFDM, higher-order modulation schemes, advanced antenna technologies a...

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Long-Term Evolution (LTE)—Part 1

This article highlighted the increasing need for wireless service providers to turn to LTE to deploy mobile broadband networks beyond 3G, and examined how this transition to 4G manifests developing tr...

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Signal Conditioning of 100 GigE Electrical Lanes

Now that 40G/100G systems have become a reality, key transceiver vendors are working hard to provide optical CFP modules that require specific signal conditioning of their electrical interfaces in ord...

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Test Strategy for the Wireless Backhaul Evolution

The growth of data-centric services, along with the growth of the social Internet and multimedia applications, has prompted wireless service operators to shift toward packet-based Ethernet/IP technolo...

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Understanding PMD Specifications in New Advanced Very High-Speed Networks

The advent of new advanced modulation formats to transport 40 Gbit/s and 100 Gbit/s transmission rates has resulted in numerous publications on polarization mode dispersion (PMD) and differential grou...

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100G DP-QPSK Transmitters: Using Time-Resolved EVM and Masks for Rapid Pass/Fail Validation in Manufacturing

The new “multilevel” DP-QPSK coherent modulation scheme improves “traditional” approaches to line-side transponder testing. But manufacturers still require a simple way to test transmitters in manufac...

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