PRODUCTS UPDATE
VETRO FiberMap launches cloud-based FTTx mapping
VETRO FiberMap, a subsidiary of the GIS consulting firm NBT Solutions, has launched the VETRO FiberMap Network Mapping Platform, designed specifically to meet the needs of small to mid-sized internet service providers (ISPs) and community broadband networks. The secure, cloud-based platform helps ISPs plan, design, cost, build, market, manage, and operate their fibre-to-the- home networks. It delivers real-time network mapping to and all departments – leadership, engineering, marketing – anytime, anywhere through any web browser. Broad functionality and ease of use are provided in an affordable and powerful package that fully supports a fibre company from ‘strategy to splice’. ‘As we worked with dozens of communications companies over many years, we found that small and mid-sized ISPs have a common set of mapping needs as they deploy their fibre networks,’ said VETRO FiberMap co-founder Will Mitchell. ‘Legacy network inventory mapping tools are too big, too complex, and too expensive for them. They wind up using Google Earth for maps and spreadsheets for strands and circuits, but they really struggle to bring all of this data together and share information across their business efficiently. We’ve built this platform specifically for these companies so that they can now work from one common fibre network mapping and fibre management database.’ Not only does the software support demand identification, market planning, and return-on-investment (ROI) modelling, but engineering needs are also covered. Easy digitising and network layout tools support flexible engineering designs. Service providers can move quickly from design to construction, generate the bill of materials (BOM), and share designs in GIS-ready formats.
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Huber+Suhner launches IANOS fibre management system
Manufacturer of components and systems for optical and electrical connectivity, Huber+Suhner, launched IANOS, its new, future-proofed fibre management system, at Data Centre World in London this April. With future-proofing of data centres becoming nothing short of essential, IANOS is designed to accommodate a quick, simple and inevitable upgrade path from 10G serial to 40G and 100G parallel optics. The IANOS concept accommodates
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Keysight updates PAM-4 analysis software
Keysight Technologies has introduced two software updates for its real-time oscilloscope products. The updates are available in the Infiniium oscilloscope firmware version 5.60. The N8827A PAM-4 analysis software update adds bit-error rate (BER) capabilities for four- level pulse amplitude modulation (PAM-4) based signals. The N8834A MultiScope software update adds support for Keysight’s InfiniiVision oscilloscopes. The N8827A PAM-4 analysis software update adds a BER and symbol error rate (SER) measurement tool designed to help engineers perform error-rate measurements on PAM-4 signals. Measuring the BER or SER of a PAM-4 signal allows designers to fine tune the transmitter or receiver equalisation parameters of their PAM-4 devices by highlighting where burst error failures can impact a receiver’s forward error correction (FEC) protocol. Historically, traditional non-return-to-zero (NRZ) based signalling technologies operate at a BER level of 10e-12 or lower. By comparison, since many PAM-4 implementations take advantage of FEC, it is possible to operate a PAM-4 communication link at a BER of 10e-6 or 10e-5, or even greater. At these bit error rates, such BER calculations for PAM-4 signals are now well within the reasonable measuring capacity of the Infiniium Z-Series and V-Series real-time oscilloscopes. In
NeoPhotonics offers 100G Class 3 CFP2-ACO module
NeoPhotonics has announced sample availability for its ClearLight CFP2-ACO (analog coherent optics) Class 3 coherent pluggable module. The ClearLight CFP2-ACO combines all of the optical functions necessary for a coherent transponder in a standard form factor.
The module is designed to fully support the Optical Internetworking Forum (OIF) Implementation Agreement OIF-CFP2-ACO-01.0, approved in January 2016. This format places the digital signal processor (DSP) outside the module;
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addition to BER measurement, this new feature allows engineers to also identify and locate burst errors on continuous repeating patterns. ‘The BER feature of our N8827A PAM-4
software gives customers confidence that their receiver architecture is correct,’ said Dave Cipriani, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s oscilloscope business. ‘The software now allows engineers to isolate the causes of burst errors, which can significantly reduce their debug time.’ The N8834A MultiScope software enables engineers to connect multiple Infiniium and InfiniiVision oscilloscopes, allowing them to have up to 40 time-correlated analogue channels available for signal acquisition. The 5.60 software release allows engineers to use MultiScope on InfiniiVision oscilloscopes while running the software on their PC. Previously, MultiScope only worked on Infiniium oscilloscopes.
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and NeoPhotonics notes that its new module is compatible with DSP chips from multiple vendors. For Class 3 operation the bias control of the Mach- Zehnder modulator elements in the module can be controlled externally by the host board via an analogue control interface, if desired. The module incorporates NeoPhotonics ultra-
narrow linewidth external-cavity tunable laser and high-responsivity integrated coherent receiver, exhibits low electrical power consumption and is suitable for 100G DP-QPSK and 200G 16QAM operation.
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Base-2, 8, 12 and 24 pre-terminated cable systems for best-in-class density, faster installation, improved handling and scalability, all of which are key factors in future-proofing data centres.
‘This is undoubtedly our most advanced and adaptable fibre management system to date,’ said Urs Ryffel, COO of the fiber optics division at HUBER+SUHNER. ‘We chose the name IANOS – derived from Janus, the Roman deity that looks both to the past and the future – as it reflects the system’s ability to both improve existing data centres when retrofitted and provides the most effective, efficient
solution possible for new builds.’ With the IANOS system, customers are able to allocate as little space as possible to passive equipment, leaving more room for revenue generating equipment in their data centres. Customers can also ‘pay as they grow’, by adding modular components as and when required. Modules of different application, sizes and connectivity types can be mixed and matched, while likelihood of human error is reduced thanks to colour coding of components and universal adaptors.
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