Managing the high volume of ports at play
The ability to test two ports simultaneously means technicians can do more in a single day. With the sheer volume of ports in play—like the thousands of high-speed connections within a single data center—fast and accurate testing is critical.
Solution
Dual-port testing on the FTBx-88480 Series enables techs to validate two circuits simultaneously for speeds up to 400G—including 1G, 100G, 200G and more—with the same equipment.
Quick validation of pluggable transceivers
Too often, field techs assume a transceiver is faulty when its fully operational. With thousands of pluggable transceivers at play, this rip-and-replace strategy is racking up more costs by the day.
Solution
Enter iOptics, an automated, intelligent test application on the FTBx-88480 Series that accurately validates pluggable transceivers (1G to 400G), including coherent optics (400ZR and OpenZR+), quicker than ever.
Test today’s transceivers, stay ready for tomorrow’s next-gen optics
There’s a wide range of small pluggable transceivers currently in use and new types constantly emerging like SFP112. Managing the evolution from ‘current’ to ‘what’s next’ is tricky. How do operators and data centers test what’s current while planning for what’s coming next?
Solution
Do both, with EXFO’s Open Transceiver System (OTS) available on the FTBx-88480 Series. The OTS is an innovative, evolutionary design enabling any transceiver (now or future) to fit into an EXFO test solution.
Portable 400G testing for lab and manufacturing environments
Whether its carrier labs testing out the latest transceivers, or equipment manufacturers running tests on manufacturing floors, the need for 400G test solutions includes lab and manufacturing applications.
Solution
With the FTBx-88480 Series in EXFO’s LTB-8 rackmount or portable platforms, users can get more done faster with up to 8x 400G test ports running simultaneously. Plus, users can test different rates (400G, 200G, 100G, 25G) and optics (OSFP, QSFP-DD).
Digital coherent optics (DCO)
EXFO’s DCO test solutions present a best-practice methodology for managing coherent optical transport links across DCI, metro and core networks. The methodology includes test processes to validate both the coherent pluggable optics, as well as the point-to-point coherent links throughout a network.
DCO iOptics: validates the health and operation of coherent transceivers such as 400ZR and OpenZR+, making it the only validation test tool in the industry for coherent optics.
DCO BERT: validates the health of coherent point-to-point links, helping to verify the performance of the physical infrastructure.
