PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced that it will introduce the industry’s first Serial 10 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) transceiver module at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC), booth no. 402, next week at the Rai Centre in Amsterdam. The Agilent 10 GBASE-LR XENPAK Transceiver offers the XAUI interface, and has been designed to the proposed 802.3ae IEEE 10 GbE standard and the XENPAK multi-source agreement (MSA) that Agilent co-founded earlier this year. It is expected to be a key enabler of the emerging 10 GbE market.

Agilent’s small reliable low-cost 10 GbE transceiver is ideal for emerging 10 GbE applications including campus trunking, data aggregation, enterprise to metropolitan uplinks, equipment room and exchange point-to-point links.

The new 1310 nm, serial transceiver has a range of 10 kilometers (km). Agilent’s own uncooled, directly modulated laser technology delivers unmatched 10 Gb performance without the need for traditional modulators, coolers or complex optical multiplexing. The new laser and the critical optical receiver employed in the module were both developed and manufactured by Agilent, giving users an assurance of quality and supply.

"The 1310 serial 10 km technology is the watershed optical technology for 10 Gigabit Ethernet," said Euan Livingston, strategic marketing manager for Agilent’s Networking Solutions Division. "By packaging Agilent’s optical technology into a compact, front panel pluggable XENPAK transceiver, we have developed a product that will hit the high volume $1,000 price point that is critical for enabling the 10 Gigabit market."

Agilent Technologies Inc.