TEKTRONIX has upgraded its popular communications signal analyser and introduced two new optical sampling modules aimed at the fast-growing 10-gigabit ethernet (10GbE) and optical transport network (10GbOTN) markets.
Market pressure to provide affordable 10GbE products has prompted a shift to development of higher data rate transmission components based on low-cost, low power optical transceivers - technologies in widespread use today in lower speed transmission systems.
Now available from New Tek Sales , these low-power devices require higher sensitivity and improved noise performance in manufacturing test equipment. In addition, equipment makers ramping up for 10GbE production need measurement solutions that can quickly deliver accurate, repeatable test results for the higher data rate products.
The new Tektronix CSA8000B Series communications signal analyser coupled with the new 80C08 optical sampling module form the industry's first integrated solution that offers the measurement sensitivity and throughput required for emerging 10GbE manufacturing production requirements.
The emerging 10GbE technology answers the demand for ever-higher data capacity at the LAN level and into the WAN. The advent of 10GbE data communications products is accompanied by a significant shift in the architecture of the basic components and network elements.
Until recently, virtually all optical transmitters for high-speed data communications applications relied on high-power laser devices to send optical data pulses out over fibre lines.
New products utilising lower-power transmitters require higher sensitivity and noise immunity in the receiver - and in the instrumentation used for manufacturing test.