| Compliance testing | IEEE 802.3ba, IEEE 802.3bs, 802.3ck and 802.3df standards |
| Multi-interface support | QSFP-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 rate | 850, 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 validation | PCS 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 validation | SFP, SFP+, SFP28, QSFP+, QSFP28, QSFP56, QSFP-DD, QSFP112 and OSFP. Also, AOC, DAC and breakout cables. |
| Breakout cable support | Verification 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 lane | Optical channel power measurement with color indicators |
| Frequency measurements | Provides per lane frequency measurement of the received signal (in Hz) |
| Frequency offset | Offsetting of the transmitted signal's clock on a selected interface, and monitoring |
| Transceiver non-blocking analysis | Enables a step-by-step monitoring of the transceiver boot-up sequence |
| BERT | BERT 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 BERT | High-resolution delay measurements integrated in the BER with statistics including current, average, maximum, minimum, count, total and pass/fail thresholds |
| Error injection mode | Manual, rate and continuous (maximum rate) |
| Layer 2/3/4 Ethernet testing | Unframed 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 loopback | Return Ethernet traffic to the local unit by swapping packet overhead up to layer 4 |
| Traffic generation and monitoring | Traffic 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 2544 | Throughput, back-to-back, frame loss and high-resolution latency measurements according to RFC 2544; frame size: RFC-defined or user-configurable |
| EtherSAM | Simplified 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 6349 | RFC 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 rate | Line utilization (%), Ethernet bandwidth (Mbit/s), frame rate (frame/s), and frame count |
| Ethernet alarms | Link down, local fault detected, local fault received, remote fault, LOA |
| Ethernet errors | FCS, jabber, runt, undersize and oversize |
| Higher layer error analysis | UDP checksum |
| PCS lane alarms and errors | LOS, LOC-lane, LOAML, excessive skew, Inv. Marker, Pre-FEC SYMB and Pre-FEC-bit |
| PCS logical lane mapping | Manual and random |
| Skew insertion | Per-lane skew generation and measurement range 0 to 10550 |
| Pre-emphasis | Pre-/main-/post-cursor options to improve electrical waveform including gray encoding |
| FEC | Generation and analysis of FEC correctable and uncorrectable errors, local and remote degraded SER monitoring (error-free and uncorrectable) and percentage |
| FEC statistics | Number of symbol errors per correctable codeword, number of pre-FEC symbol errors and bit statistics, codeword count |
| IPv4 and IPv6 testing | Performs the following tests up to 400G over IPV4 and IPv6, RFC 2544, BERT, traffic generation and monitoring, EtherSAM, ping and traceroute |
| Autonegotiation support | Advertise local interface parameters and identify negotiated capabilities with the remote link partner |
| Autonegotiation status | Monitors and displays the status of the auto-negotiation process, providing information on its various states |
| Link training support | Provides 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 status | Monitors and displays the status of the link training process, providing information on its various states |
| Link training debugging | Report 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 access | Supported via EXFO Remote ToolBox, Remote Desktop, VNC and EXFO Multilink for multiuser support |
| Automation | Wide range of commands available per application to allow test automation |
| Reporting | Test results are included in a report that can be generated in different formats: pdf, html and json |
| OTN testing | OTU4 (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 OTN | Ethernet 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 — Testing | 1X, 2X, 4X, 8X, 10X, 16X, 32X and 64X |
| FC functional specifications — BERT | Framed 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 injection | Bit error and FCS |
| FC functional specifications — Error measurement | Bit error, 66B block, invalid marker, FCS, oversize error, undersize error, FEC-COR-CW, FEV-UNCOR-CW and Pre-FEC-SYMB |
| FC functional specifications — Alarm detection | LOS, frequency, LOC, no traffic, pattern loss, link down, LOCWS, LOAML, link degrade, RD |
| FC functional specifications — Buffer-to-buffer credit testing | Buffer-to-buffer credit estimation based on latency |
| FC functional specifications — Latency | Round-trip latency |
| FC functional specifications — SDT | Measures: last disruption, shortest disruption, longest disruption, average disruption, total disruption, and service disruption count |
| Coherent optics — Compliance | OIF 800ZR, 400ZR, OpenZR+, 100GBASE-ZR |
| Coherent optics — Tx power | Optical power Tx transceiver configuration |
| Coherent optics — Interface rate | 800ZR (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 — Wavelength | Transceiver grid configuration |
| Coherent optics — Optical metrics | Test 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 configuration | Ethernet client L2/3 and L4 configuration |
| Coherent optics — Ethernet frame | Client Ethernet frame configuration fixed or EMIX |
| Coherent optics — Ethernet client BERT | Bit error analysis using PRBS31 supporting alarm/error monitoring and injection |
| Coherent optics — FED | User can enable FEC excessive degrade alarm monitoring |
| Coherent optics — FDD | User can enable FEC detected degrade alarm monitoring |
| Coherent optics — FEC alarms | FED and FDD alarms monitoring |
| Coherent optics — FEC error monitoring | FEC-UNCOR-FR and FEC-COR-BITS monitoring |
| Coherent optics — Ethernet alarms | Link down, L Fault Det, L Fault Rcd, Remote fault LOA alarms |
| Coherent optics — Ethernet errors | 66B Block, FEC-UNCOR-FR, FEC-COR-BITS, FCS, Jabber, runt and undersize errors |
| Coherent optics — Error and alarm injection | User can inject Interface, Ethernet, PCS and BERT errors and alarms |
| Coherent optics — DCO Tx alarms | Tx LOA, Tx OOA, Tx CMU LOL, Tx RefClk LOL, Tx Deskew LOL, Tx FIFO |
| Coherent optics — DCO Rx alarms | Rx LOF, Rx LOM, Rx Demod LOL, Rx CDC LOL, Rx LOA, Rx OOA, Rx Deskew LOL, Rx FIFO |
| Coherent optics — Dual port testing | Dual-port Ethernet testing capabilities for 400ZR and OpenZR+ |
| Module | FTBx-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) |
| Weight | FTBx-88810: 0.85 kg (1.87 lb) FTBx-88811: 0.88 kg (1.94 lb) |
| Temperature | Operating: 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 amplitude | 200 mVpp to 1300 mVpp, depending on frequency |
| Transmission frequency | 155 MHz to 3.50 GHz |
| Output configuration | AC-coupled |
| Load impedance | 50 Ω |
| Connector type | SMA |
| External cable | Maximum 1 meter cable length (RG178 cable with 3.1 dB/m attenuation at 3.5 GHz) |
| Laser safety | LASER 1; IEC 60825-1:2014-05 |