Digital Lightwave Announces Fibre Channel Over OTN Test Solution
Clearwater, FL (Marketwire) - Digital Lightwave®, Inc., a leading provider of optical networking test equipment and technology, today announced the availability of its Fibre Channel Over OTN test solution for the NIC Platform. The new Fibre Channel Over OTN option provides testing of Fibre Channel services delivered over high speed OTN networks, verifying the performance of the Fibre Channel service as well as the underlying OTN layer.
"In addition to our existing OTN and Fibre Channel service test capabilities within the NIC product, we are now able to measure the performance of 10Gb/s Fibre Channel across OTN transport links," said Tony Goodchild, Director of Product Management and Marketing. "The continuing growth of 'software as a service' business tools and cloud deployed applications is fueling growth in data centre capacity. That in turn is driving a need for carriers to support Fibre Channel services. Once again the NIC demonstrably provides our customers the most significant return on investment (ROI) of any test set in its class. Adding support for the OTU-1f and OTU-2f interface at 11.27Gb/s and 11.3Gb/s requires only a software upgrade on our MSA 2020 or MSA 2030 modules, reducing the price to deploy this service and negating the need to return equipment from the field for upgrade. As we continue to deliver additional test functionality it is important to know that this not only affects new product, but is backwardly compatible with any existing NIC product in the field."
"We are continuing in our commitment to support any next generation network services," commented Tom Newhart, VP of Sales. "By providing support for testing Fibre Channel service over the OTN network we are building on our industry leading OTN test technology and our newly announced 10Gb/s Fibre Channel test capability -- combining these into an integrated test solution for both network layers."
The 10G Fibre Channel Over OTN test option will be available on Digital Lightwave's Multi-Service Analyzer series of modules (MSA 2020 and MSA 2030) which feature test options for SONET/SDH, OTN, Ethernet, Fibre Channel and NGN technologies such as Virtual Concatenation, GFP and LCAS.
Digital Lightwave's Fibre Channel testing supports all aspects of node login, fabric login, buffer-to-buffer flow control with configurable frame sizes, headers and rates. Extensive non-intrusive performance monitoring provides insight into in-service Fibre Channel circuit performance. Traditional optical measurements such as measuring and generating line frequency offsets are also supported.
To find out more about the NIC and the MSA 2020 / 2030 modules please visit www.lightwave.com.
About Digital Lightwave
Digital Lightwave, Inc. provides the global communications networking industry with products, technology and services that enable the efficient development, deployment and management of high-performance networks. Digital Lightwave's customers rely on its offerings to optimize network performance and ensure service reliability.
SOURCE: Digital Lightwave