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FTBx-88810 Series - complete lab-to-field testing, 1G-800G and 800ZR

Overview
Full-rate coverage from 1G to 800G—supporting Ethernet, OTN, Fibre Channel and coherent optics (including 800ZR). Built for the Coherent Future.
FTBx-88810 Series - complete lab-to-field testing, 1G-800G and 800ZR

Key features

  • Full-rate support from 1G to 800G
  • Support of the full coherent suite 800ZR, 400ZR 100ZR and OpenZR ( 400ZR+, 300ZR+, 200ZR+, 100ZR+)
  • Dual-port from 1G to 800G, including coherent dual 400ZR/ZR+
  • Multi-protocol coverage: Ethernet, OTN, Fibre Channel
  • Compact and portable—ideal for both lab and field environments
  • Built-in transceiver diagnostics: auto-negotiation, link training, breakout validation

Specifications

Technical specifications
Compliance testingIEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3bs, 802.3ck and 802.3df standards
Multi-interface supportQSFP-DD MSA revision 4.0, OSFP MSA revision 2.0, 4×200G, 2×400G and 8×100G and 1×800G
QSFP-DD MSA revision 6.3, 2×200G and 4×100G
800G, 400G AOC and DAC cables support
Pluggable MSA-compliant 2×QSFP28 transceivers
AOC OSFP28/OSFP-DD cable support
Pluggable MSA-compliant 1×OSFP optical transceiver
Pluggable MSA-compliant 2×QSFP+ transceivers
Pluggable MSA-compliant 2×SFP28 optical transceivers
Pluggable MSA-compliant 2×SFP/SFP+ optical transceivers
Pluggable MSA-compliant 1×SFP-DD optical transceiver
Line rate850, 425/212.5/106.25 (single lambda)/103.125/53.125/41.25 Gbit/s, 100G SRBD, 40G, 25G, 1G, OIF DCO Coherent OSFP, QSFP-DD, QSFP28 and OpenZR+
Physical-layer validationPCS lane mapping and monitoring capability
Per-lane skew generation and measurement
PCS error generation and monitoring per lane
Full MDIO/I2C read/write access
Transceiver and cable validationSFP, SFP+, SFP28, QSFP+, QSFP28, QSFP56, QSFP-DD, QSFP112 and OSFP. Also, AOC, DAC and breakout cables.
Breakout cable supportVerification of 2×400G, 4×200G, 8×100GE, 4×100GE and 2×200GE breakout cables providing optical Tx/Rx power, L2/L3 traffic and BERT statistics per link.
Power measurement per laneOptical channel power measurement with color indicators
Frequency measurementsProvides per lane frequency measurement of the received signal (in Hz)
Frequency offsetOffsetting of the transmitted signal's clock on a selected interface, and monitoring
Transceiver non-blocking analysisEnables a step-by-step monitoring of the transceiver boot-up sequence
BERTBERT framed and unframed testing using different parameters and different frame sizes, including EMIX. The Ethernet BERT application also allows LLDP neighbor validation which displays the most important information forwarded by the LLDP protocol.
Service disruption time (SDT)SDT measurements based on no-traffic mode, with statistics including longest disruption time, shortest, last, average, count, total and pass/fail thresholds
Latency measurements in BERTHigh-resolution delay measurements integrated in the BER with statistics including current, average, maximum, minimum, count, total and pass/fail thresholds
Error injection modeManual, rate and continuous (maximum rate)
Layer 2/3/4 Ethernet testingUnframed BERT at 800G
MAC address and Ether type edition available, Q-in-Q capability with the ability to go up to three layers of stacked VLANs
Source and destination IP address configuration available, IP TOS/DSP configuration available, UDP source and destination port configuration available
BERT available at 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 100G, 200G and 400G
Dual-port Ethernet testing capabilities for 1G, 10G, 25G, 40G, 100G, 200G and 400G
Discover up to three levels of VLAN tagged traffic (C-/S-/E-VLAN) including their ID and priority, as well as the total VLAN tagged frame count and associated bandwidth
Link layer discovery protocol (LLDP) neighbor information collected at all supported rates: from 1G to 800G
Ping and traceroute functions; user can configure up to 1000 ping messages
Advanced filtering capability for in-depth network troubleshooting
Smart loopbackReturn Ethernet traffic to the local unit by swapping packet overhead up to layer 4
Traffic generation and monitoringTraffic generation and shaping of up to 16 streams of Ethernet and IP traffic, including the simultaneous monitoring of throughput, frame loss, packet jitter, latency and out-of-sequence frames, including MAC flooding for source and destination MAC addresses
RFC 2544Throughput, back-to-back, frame loss and high-resolution latency measurements according to RFC 2544; frame size: RFC-defined or user-configurable
EtherSAMSimplified ITU-T Y.1564 test that performs service configuration and service performance tests using remote loopback or dual test set mode for bidirectional results
RFC 6349RFC 6349 with enhanced algorithm: performs TCP testing with single or multiple TCP connections from 10BASE-T up to 100G; discovers the MTU, RTT, actual and ideal TCP throughput; user can apply suggested window size boost factor to optimize test results or perform multiple client iPerf tests against the RFC 6349 (v2 and v3) iPerf Server mode of operation
Rx frame-size analysis< 64, 65 - 127, 128 - 255, 256 - 511, 512 - 1023, 1024-1518 and > 1518
Rx rateLine utilization (%), Ethernet bandwidth (Mbit/s), frame rate (frame/s), and frame count
Ethernet alarmsLink down, local fault detected, local fault received, remote fault, LOA
Ethernet errorsFCS, jabber, runt, undersize and oversize
Higher layer error analysisUDP checksum
PCS lane alarms and errorsLOS, LOC-lane, LOAML, excessive skew, Inv. Marker, Pre-FEC SYMB and Pre-FEC-bit
PCS logical lane mappingManual and random
Skew insertionPer-lane skew generation and measurement range 0 to 10550
Pre-emphasisPre-/main-/post-cursor options to improve electrical waveform including gray encoding
FECGeneration and analysis of FEC correctable and uncorrectable errors, local and remote degraded SER monitoring (error-free and uncorrectable) and percentage
FEC statisticsNumber of symbol errors per correctable codeword, number of pre-FEC symbol errors and bit statistics, codeword count
IPv4 and IPv6 testingPerforms the following tests up to 400G over IPV4 and IPv6, RFC 2544, BERT, traffic generation and monitoring, EtherSAM, ping and traceroute
Autonegotiation supportAdvertise local interface parameters and identify negotiated capabilities with the remote link partner
Autonegotiation statusMonitors and displays the status of the auto-negotiation process, providing information on its various states
Link training supportProvides the capability to enable or disable the link training process with support for copper cable assemblies as defined by the IEEE 802.3df (Clause 162.8.11) and 800G-ETC-R standards
Link training statusMonitors and displays the status of the link training process, providing information on its various states
Link training debuggingReport local and remote Tx coefficient update and exception counts and support the export of a detailed log of all link training status and control messages to aid in debugging
Remote accessSupported via EXFO Remote ToolBox, Remote Desktop, VNC and EXFO Multilink for multiuser support
AutomationWide range of commands available per application to allow test automation
ReportingTest results are included in a report that can be generated in different formats: pdf, html and json
OTN testingOTU4 (112 Gbit/s), 4×OTU4, OTU3 (43 Gbit/s), OTU3e1 (44.57 Gbit/s), OTU3e2 (44.58 Gbit/s), OTU2 (10.71 Gbit/s), OTU2e (11.10 Gbit/s), OTU2f (11.32 Gbit/s), OTU1 (2.67 Gbit/s), OTU1e (11.05 Gbit/s) and OTU1f (11.27 Gbit/s) unframed and framed Ber tests.
FEC testing: error insertion and monitoring
OTL 3.4, OTL 4.4, OTL 4.2 and 4.1 support
Alarms and errors generation and monitoring
OTL lane mapping, skew generation and measurement
OTU, ODU, OPU overhead manipulation and monitoring
OTU, ODU (including ODU TCM), OPU layer alarm/error generation and analysis
OTU, ODU (including ODU TCM) trace messages
Round-trip delay (RTD) measurement
OTN SDT measurement
OTN through and OTN intrusive through mode testing
Multiplexing/demultiplexing of ODU13, ODU23, ODU123, ODU03, ODU013, ODU0123, ODU04, ODU014, ODU134, ODU24, ODU234, ODU34, ODU14, ODU01234, ODU0124, ODU12, ODU024, ODU034, ODU1e4, ODUflex24, ODU2e4 and ODU124, ODU1234 with PRBS pattern and GigE and 10 GigE client mappings into OPU payloads. ODUflex at ODU2, ODU3 and ODU4.
Flexibility to configure the required bandwidth based on n×1.25 Gbit/s tributary time slots with a PRBS pattern into the ODUflex payload; 40 GigE client mapping into ODU3 into ODU4.
Performance monitoring: G.821, M.2100
Frequency analysis and offset generation including frequency sweep
Power OTN OH analysis for BERT and synchronization testing of multiple fields in the OTN OH, including GCC0/1/2
Ethernet mapping over OTNEthernet mapping over OTN respectively, with GMP support
40G transcoding capability with alarms, errors and statistics
GMP alarms, errors and statistics
GigE mapping into ODU0 using GFP-T, 10 GigE mapping into ODU2 using GFP-F, direct 10 GigE mappings into ODU1e/2e in different ODU multiplexing structures, and 40 GigE client mapped into ODU3/ODU4
Flexibility to map up to a 10G Ethernet client signal into ODUflex
FC functional specifications — Testing1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 10X, 16X, 32X and 64X
FC functional specifications — BERTFramed FC
FC functional specifications — Patterns (BERT)PRBS 2E31-1, 2E23-1, 2E20-1, 2E15-1, 2E11-1, 2E9-1, one user-defined pattern and the capability to invert patterns
FC functional specifications — Error injectionBit error and FCS
FC functional specifications — Error measurementBit error, 66B block, invalid marker, FCS, oversize error, undersize error, FEC-COR-CW, FEV-UNCOR-CW and Pre-FEC-SYMB
FC functional specifications — Alarm detectionLOS, frequency, LOC, no traffic, pattern loss, link down, LOCWS, LOAML, link degrade, RD
FC functional specifications — Buffer-to-buffer credit testingBuffer-to-buffer credit estimation based on latency
FC functional specifications — LatencyRound-trip latency
FC functional specifications — SDTMeasures: last disruption, shortest disruption, longest disruption, average disruption, total disruption, and service disruption count
Coherent optics — ComplianceOIF 800ZR, 400ZR, OpenZR+, 100GBASE-ZR
Coherent optics — Tx powerOptical power Tx transceiver configuration
Coherent optics — Interface rate800ZR (2×400GE, 4×200GE, 8×100GE and 800GE), 400ZR DWDM amplified, 400ZR unamplified, 400ZR+, 300ZR+, 200ZR+ (2×100G and 1×200G clients), 100ZR+ and 100GBASE-ZR
Coherent optics — WavelengthTransceiver grid configuration
Coherent optics — Optical metricsTest set displays the following optical metrics CD (ps/nm), CFO (MHz), DGD (ps), OSNR (dB), PDL (dB), SOPCR (Krad/s), SOPMD (ps2)
Coherent optics — Client configurationEthernet client L2/3 and L4 configuration
Coherent optics — Ethernet frameClient Ethernet frame configuration fixed or EMIX
Coherent optics — Ethernet client BERTBit error analysis using PRBS31 supporting alarm/error monitoring and injection
Coherent optics — FEDUser can enable FEC excessive degrade alarm monitoring
Coherent optics — FDDUser can enable FEC detected degrade alarm monitoring
Coherent optics — FEC alarmsFED and FDD alarms monitoring
Coherent optics — FEC error monitoringFEC-UNCOR-FR and FEC-COR-BITS monitoring
Coherent optics — Ethernet alarmsLink down, L Fault Det, L Fault Rcd, Remote fault LOA alarms
Coherent optics — Ethernet errors66B Block, FEC-UNCOR-FR, FEC-COR-BITS, FCS, Jabber, runt and undersize errors
Coherent optics — Error and alarm injectionUser can inject Interface, Ethernet, PCS and BERT errors and alarms
Coherent optics — DCO Tx alarmsTx LOA, Tx OOA, Tx CMU LOL, Tx RefClk LOL, Tx Deskew LOL, Tx FIFO
Coherent optics — DCO Rx alarmsRx LOF, Rx LOM, Rx Demod LOL, Rx CDC LOL, Rx LOA, Rx OOA, Rx Deskew LOL, Rx FIFO
Coherent optics — Dual port testingDual-port Ethernet testing capabilities for 400ZR and OpenZR+
General specifications
ModuleFTBx-88810; FTBx-88811
Size (H × W × D)FTBx-88810: 51 mm × 159 mm × 182 mm (2 in × 6 1/4 in × 7 3/16 in)
FTBx-88811: 51 mm × 159 mm × 182 mm (2 in × 6 1/4 in × 7 3/16 in)
WeightFTBx-88810: 0.85 kg (1.87 lb)
FTBx-88811: 0.88 kg (1.94 lb)
TemperatureOperating: 0 °C to 40 °C (32 °F to 104 °F)
Storage: –40 °C to 70 °C (–40 °F to 158 °F)
REF-OUT INTERFACE
Tx pulse amplitude200 mVpp to 1300 mVpp, depending on frequency
Transmission frequency155 MHz to 3.50 GHz
Output configurationAC-coupled
Load impedance50 Ω
Connector typeSMA
External cableMaximum 1 meter cable length (RG178 cable with 3.1 dB/m attenuation at 3.5 GHz)
Laser safetyLASER 1; IEC 60825-1:2014-05