Agilent Technologies Inc. claims to have readied the industry's first optical/electrical module that provides unfiltered bandwidth and reference receiver capabilities for 100-G Ethernet signals (implemented as four lanes each in the 25.8 to 27.7 Gbps range) and 16X Fibre Channel (17 Gbps single-mode variants) signals. The combination of unfiltered optical bandwidth to 45 GHz and reference receiver capabilities in one module significantly accelerates the design cycle and product validation testing, allowing engineers to increase productivity and speed design improvements, said Agilent.

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Used in Agilent's 86100C DCA-J wideband oscilloscope mainframe, the 86116C Option 025 module allows engineers to investigate, design and verify the performance of transceivers that terminate optical fibers for next-generation local area (LAN) and storage area (SAN) networks.

The option 025 works with 1310-nm and 1550-nm single-mode transmitters and characteristically has 45 GHz optical and 93 GHz electrical unfiltered bandwidth. Engineers prefer line-rate-specific reference receivers because they make compliance measurements far more consistently and reproducibly than unfiltered receivers. In addition, engineers need sufficient unfiltered bandwidth to troubleshoot designs and improve manufacturing yields, according to the manufacturer.

The 86116C Option 025 is available now at a starting price of $60,000.

Agilent 86100C DCA-J firmware revision 8.0 is required and will be available at www.agilent.com/find/dcaj beginning June.
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