Service providers and data center operators are in the process of deploying 800G technology to meet the growing demand for network speed and capacity. This trend is primarily driven by data-intensive applications such as video conferencing, video streaming, and digital entertainment, which are delivered via wireless technologies like 4G, 5G, and Wi-Fi.
Keysight's new portfolio of optical and electrical analysis solutions empowers the 800G ecosystem (comprising manufacturers of optical components, chipsets, switches, and semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs), as well as system integrators) to accelerate design, development, testing, and validation throughout the entire design lifecycle.
“Keysight’s close collaborations across the high-speed digital industry, as well as with standards organizations such as the IEEE and the OIF, enable us to deliver first-to-market solutions that accelerate design cycles and technology waves well before standards mature,” said Dr. Joachim Peerlings, vice president of network and data center solutions at Keysight Technologies. “Access to our 800G test solutions portfolio across the physical and protocol layers—from simulation to design, validation, compliance, and manufacturing—allows our customers to verify interoperability and streamline the testing process throughout the workflow using common, uniform interfaces and software automation.”
Keysight’s new 800G testing solutions enable users to fully explore design margins while addressing design and compliance validation challenges in the 800G transceiver market, which is expected to reach $29 billion by 2029 according to CIR. Keysight’s new 800G testing solutions include:
• 100Gb/s Electrical Compliance Testing
: The first pre-compliance testing solution to validate electrical signaling input interfaces in both transmitters and receivers according to the 100Gb/s standard currently being developed by the IEEE and OIF.
Infiniium UXR Series Real-Time Oscilloscope or Digital Communications Analyzer (DCA) solutions , a high-performance 64 Gigabaud Bit Error Rate (BERT ) tester, and pre-compliance test cases for simplified testing of 100Gb/s, 200Gb/s, 400Gb/s, and 800Gb/s electrical input interfaces, achieving accurate and highly repeatable test results.
• Design Verification
IxVerify software , which generates network traffic, with the Synopsys ZeBu Server 4 emulation system to accelerate design verification of system-on-a-chip (SoC) and 800G Ethernet designs before silicon prototyping.
• Offers consistent methodologies, configurations, and test plans, accelerating testing from pre-prototyping to device validation.
• 200Gbps solution for 800G research and exploration
: Combines an arbitrary waveform generator (AWG) and an Infiniium UXR series real-time oscilloscope to characterize the digital interface, including error detection up to 224Gb/s
. Extends testing to the optical domain using Keysight's 60GHz optical-to-electrical (O/E) converter.
• Physical Layer Testing System (PLTS)
: Configures signal integrity measurements and performs data post-processing on high-speed interconnects, such as cables, PCBs, and connectors.
Supports de-embedding techniques on a common platform, allowing users to optimize performance margins in their 800G channel designs.
