Transport testing for the T-BERD/MTS-8000 Platforms

Highlights

• Truly field tailored, the only integrated Ethernet, SDH/SONET, IP, Fibre Channel, OTN and PDH test solution available to the market, weighing under 7 kgs.
• Battery operation up to 2 hours at 10 Gb/s rates.
• Practically unlimited field modularity: you can match any requirement for test function, size, weight, or price.
• Reduce test times by up to 66% by testing up to 3 circuits simultaneously and independently.
• Customer exchangeable connector types (FC, SC, LC, ST and DIN), eliminating the need for crossover cables.
• Dual port design allows users to maximize port density by purchasing multiple SDH/SONET and GigE interfaces (2.7G - 155Mbps optical).
• Built-in optical connection check functions with a high accuracy power meter/source, VFL, ORL and video microscope options available ensure that today’s most common optical problems are solved.
• Backwards compatible with existing MTS-5000 optical modules already in the field.
• Coupled with the NewGen module, verify Generic Frame Procedure (GFP), Virtual Concatenation (VCAT), Link Capability adaptation scheme (LCAS) and Ethernet technologies.
• Combined with the T-BERD/MTS-8000's optical layer test modules, test the physical, photonic, transmission, and data layers all in one portable package.

Applications

• Verify end to end network connectivity, throughput, and quality of service for all technologies.
• Measure network and circuit performance with an array of Error and Alarm insertion and analysis capability.
• Perform SLA and circuit acceptance routines via a variety of industry test standards.
• Test Quality of Service metrics by verifying results such as Jitter, Delay, Service Disruption, Lost and Out of Sequence frames.
• Verify network element characteristics with signal level and frequency measurements for all interfaces.
• Ensure network synchronization with the modules selectable timing references.
• Remotely operate the instrument with its web based Remote operation capability.
• Enable Productivity enhancements via the easy-to-use graphical interface and saved setup capability.

Key Features

• Ethernet
  - 10GigE LAN/WAN and 1 GigE optical interfaces
  - 10/100/1000 Mb/s electrical Ethernet interfaces 1550 nm, 1310 nm and 850 nm wavelength capable
  - Single and Dual Port configurations for 1GigE, 100M, and 10M Ethernet interfaces
  - Test End to end data connectivity and loopback testing RFC 2544 Conformance Testing; Quality of Service measurements
  - Verify the integrity of triple play services such as Video and VoIP by qualifying QoS metrics such as Packet Jitter and Round Trip Delay.
  - Test IP Traffic, including Connectivity, Throughput and QoS Measurements
  - Transmit and Receive Encapsulated traffic using MPLS/VPLS/VLAN and Q in Q technologies
  - Support the simultaneous analysis of up to 8 Ethernet/IP streams for Class of Service testing
  - Graphical Display Results such as Delay, Throughput, and Jitter versus Time
• SDH/SONET
  - SDH/SONET testing at 51 Mb/s, 155 Mb/s, 622 Mb/s, 2.5Gb/s, and 10Gb/s
  - T-carrier testing at T1, E1, E3, DS3 and E4 rates
  - Support Single and Dual Port configurations for 2.7G to 155M optical technologies
  - Muxed payload and concatenated payload generation and analysis from 10 Gb/s to 1.5/2 Mb/s
  - 1550 nm and 1310 nm wavelength support for all optical interfaces
  - SDH/SONET overhead byte manipulation and viewing for High and Low Paths
  - Round Trip Delay measurements to test latency
  - Service Disruption measurements to verify protection switching facilities
  - Performance measures including T1.510, T1.514, G.821, G.826, G.828, G.829, M.2100, and M.2101 for circuit acceptance
  - Dual-Direction T1, E1, DS3 and STS-1 receivers reduces test times by 50%
• Fibre Channel
  - Supports Fibre channel (1G/2G) optical interfaces for 850 nm, 1310 nm, and 1550 nm Tx/Rx
  - Single and Dual Port capable
  - Support Layers 1 and Layer 2 BER testing through the use of industry specified test patterns (example: High Frequency Pattern (HFPAT), Low Frequency Pattern (LFPAT))
  - Transmit and Receive Fibre Channel Frames up to 100% of line rate to test connectivity
  - Verify QoS measurements and errors such as Delay (us), Symbol Errors, CRC Errored Frames, Fibre Runts, Fibre Jabbers, Undersized Frames and Lost Frames
• OTN
  - Support OTU2 (10.7G, 11.05G, 11.1G) and OTU1 (2.7G) technologies
  - 1550 nm and 1310 nm Tx/Rx for all interfaces
  - Simultaneously and independently test 10.7G or 11.1G and 2.7G OTN interfaces
  - Analyze and generate OTU, ODU and OPU overhead, errors and alarms
  - Support correctable and uncorrectable FEC error analysis and generation
  - Transmit, Receive and Analyze TCM 1-6 overhead fields
  - For 10.7G/2.7G technologies support SDH/SONET framing with a PRBS client for BER testing
  - For 11.05 and 11.1G OTN technologies, support a PRBS client for BER testing
• Optical (with the User Interface Module)
  - Insertion Loss Testing with the Optical Power Meter and Source
  - Fibre Optic cable verification with the Visual Fault Locator
  - Fibre Optic connector verification with the Fibre Optic Microscope