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News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: FTB-8510G
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 25 April 2007

Network tester supports stacked VLANs

Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has upgraded its FTB-8510G Packet Blazer 10 Gigabit Ethernet test module to support supports stacked virtual local area networks

Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has upgraded its FTB-8510G Packet Blazer 10 gigabit Ethernet (GigE) test module. With this new software release, the FTB-8510G Packet Blazer 10 Gigabit Ethernet test module supports stacked virtual local area networks (VLANs), also known as IEEE802.1ad Q-in-Q.

This software upgrade allows network service providers (NSPs) to validate transparent 10 GigE services that preserve and extend their customers' VLAN groupings and associated access privileges across metropolitan and wide-area networks.

Exfo's new software suite also validates the integrity of traffic up to Layer 4 on the open systems interconnection (OSI) stack through IP header and user datagram protocol (UDP) checksum validation; they are key performance parameters to ensure that network and transport layers are delivering the level of performance required for mission-critical and time-sensitive applications.

In addition, this new software suite introduces a unique feature called Dual Test Set, which allows users to perform bidirectional RFC 2544 testing, an established Ethernet-based test methodology to measure key performance parameters.

Unlike other test instruments that offer only round-trip measurements, Exfo's Dual Test Set feature provides better insight into the service under test by displaying measurements in both directions.

This allows users to better assess the true expected performance of the service and, more importantly, isolate the source of degraded performance to a specific direction.

'The FTB-8510G Packet Blazer test module within the FTB-200 Compact Platform offers the most compact 10 Gigabit Ethernet test solution on the market today', said Etienne Gagnon, Exfo's Vice-President of Protocol and Optical Product Management.

'These new enhancements raise it to a whole new level and, combined with the FTB-8510B Packet Blazer Gigabit Ethernet test module, it provides a uniform and consistent Ethernet test solution at all standard rates extending from 10Mbit/s to 10Gbit/s'.

The FTB-8510B and the FTB-8510G, along with a large suite of optical and protocol test modules, are also available on the portable FTB-400 Universal Test System.

As many as eight different test modules can be hosted at the same time for advanced troubleshooting applications in central offices and large nodes.

Their IQS-8510B and IQS-8510G counterparts are available on the IQS-500 Intelligent Test System, combining an unlimited number of optical and protocol test modules and delivering advanced test automation capabilities that are ideally suited for manufacturing, system verification and R and D test applications with system vendors and component manufacturers.

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