Fiber Optic Instruments

The increasing use of mission-critical cloud applications by businesses to drive innovation and accelerate response to emerging opportunities comes at a cost to adopting companies: a lack of complete visibility into application and network performance, increasing the potential for a poor end-user experience.

Yokogawa has expanded its AQ2200 Multi-Application Test System (MATS) series with a range of attenuation modules and optical switches for applications using GI50 multimode optical fiber.
Multimode optical fiber has a much larger core diameter than single-mode fiber.

One of the fundamental applications of OTDRs is the identification and characterization of a segment of optical fiber, within a set of them already laid and installed.

The COFITEL Group presents the SENKO FTTA Smart Probe, a tool that allows technicians to inspect fiber optic connectors. Images are captured digitally and can be streamed to an Android tablet or smartphone screen to facilitate the work of professionals.

Aragón Photonics presents the BOSA Lite optical spectrum analyzer, a portable version of its benchtop BOSA optical spectrum analyzer. Like the benchtop model, the BOSA Lite provides sub-picometric performance through Aragón Photonics' Brillouin optical spectrum analysis technology.

Now, with LinkWare™ Live, the Versiv™ certification tester family allows cable installers to upload, analyze, and manage copper and fiber test results anytime, anywhere.

Yenista Optics introduces two new test instruments and updates its optical spectrum analyzer with specific modes for measuring burst signals in EDFA and PON networks. The new instruments are a passive component tester operating from 1240 to 1680 nm and a range of tunable bandwidth filters.

LASER Technology SL presents the updated MTS-5800 network tester from its represented company, JDSU. The MTS-5800 is a prime example of JDSU's new generation of all-in-one devices.

Anritsu announces that visitors to the ECOC 2014 trade show (September 22-24, Cannes, France) will be able to see a demonstration of a test platform aimed at engineers investigating the latest PAM4 and PAM8 pulse amplitude modulation techniques for use in 25Gbps and 28Gbps communication links.

Fibercom SL, official distributor with its own technical service for Sumitomo Electric in Spain and exclusive distributor for the international brand AFL-NOYES, presents new features in some of its most cutting-edge products.

Fluke Networks announces that Visual TruView™, its revolutionary Application-Aware Network Performance Management (AANPM) solution, and OptiView XG™, its flagship network analysis tablet, have been integrated to provide the industry's first AANPM solution capable of analyzing an entire enterprise network infrastructure

Getconnect presents its line of instrumentation for fiber optic installers. The line includes, among other items, a KEYCLEAVE® high-precision fiber optic cleaver, a visual fault locator (VFL), and a portable optical microscope for fiber optics.

EXFO Inc. announces the launch of the FTB-700G Series of optical and Ethernet test modules. Built on the FTB-1 field platform, the new FTB-700G Series is the only test solution on the market that integrates all the necessary functionalities to validate the effectiveness, activate, and troubleshoot all fiber-based mobile infrastructures and the services running on them.

Terms like cloud, virtualization, SAN, BYOD, SaaS, and SLA fill current IT discussions. It's rare to see the physical layer (layer 1 of the 7-layer OSI model) included in the trend. But at the end of the day, all networking technologies are leading back to that fundamental layer and the cabling infrastructure that supports it. If it doesn't work, nothing works. And it's changing, just as the technologies around it are changing. Network consultants and owners who don't embrace this shift and don't confront the increasing complexities of installation and certification are struggling for profitability and basic business survival.