Key features
Description
The powerful choice for multiservice testing
The ongoing transition towards a converged network infrastructure for SONET/SDH, OTN, Fibre Channel (FC) and packet-based Ethernet services requires a test tool that can cover a wide range of interfaces and rates without sacrificing portability, speed or cost. Leveraging the intelligent FTB-2, FTB-2 Pro, the FTB-500 Platform and the IQS-600 multimodules platform, the FTB/IQS-8830NGE Power Blazer streamlines processes and empowers technicians to customize their testing solution in order to efficiently validate SONET/SDH, OTN, FC and Ethernet circuits.
POWERFUL YET SIMPLE
Because next-generation networks are becoming more and more complex, the FTB/IQS-8830NGE Power Blazer module is designed to cover all testing needs up to 10G without sacrificing simplicity. Thanks to a highly intuitive graphical user interface (GUI), streamlined procedures and predefined configurations, new users will be able to master this tool with little to no training. By combining the FTB/IQS-8830NGE Power Blazer module with any EXFO optical module for fiber characterization and OSNR qualification, technicians can run both simultaneously, and speed up both testing and time-to-service.
Simplified BER testing
- Lets you preconfigure OTN (from OTU1 or OTU2, including standard overclocked rates), Ethernet (from 10M to 10G), SONET/SDH (from OC-3/STM-1 to OC-192/STM-64), and Fibre Channel (1x, 2x, 4x, 8x, 10x, 16x) BERT parameters prior to arrival at the test site, and then load them from the Favorites menu with one click.
- Preconfigured Favorites can be copied from one platform to another, or even sent to technicians out in the field via e-mail, where they can load them using the USB port on their platform.
- Clear results, assorted notifications and real-time pass/fail status via text or icons. Clicking on the pass/fail indicator maximizes this important status to full screen, providing instant and easily understood notification at various distances, whether the unit is in your hand or on the other side of the room.
Ethernet performance assessment
- Offers an automated RFC 2544 test suite for all supported Ethernet interfaces at all frame sizes and at full line rate, delivering repeatable test results and error-free circuit certification at 100% utilization.
- RFC 2544 is complemented by five Smart Loopback modes: pinpoint loopback traffic from a user-datagram protocol (UDP) or transmission control protocol (TCP) layer, or all the way down to a completely promiscuous mode (Transparent Loopback)—the FTB/IQS-8830NGE can adjust to all loopback situations, through which the remote unit will return traffic to the local unit by swapping packet overhead up to layer 4 of the open-systems-interconnection (OSI) stack.
- Delivers test reports with detailed throughput, frame loss, back-to-back and latency measurements, in addition to clear histograms for future reference regarding specific service-level agreements (SLAs).
EtherSAM: ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet service activation
Supported on the FTB/IQS-8830NGE Power Blazer module for 10M-to-10G Ethernet client services, this new methodology brings numerous advantages, including:
- Validation of critical SLA criteria, such as packet jitter and quality-of-service (QoS) measurements
- Faster time-to-service
- EXFO’s EtherSAM test suite: based on the ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet service activation methodology, this EXFO innovation can simulate all types of services that will run on the network and simultaneously qualify all key SLA parameters for each of these services.
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