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Announces multi-rate A3308 Optical Standards Tester to speed testing, lower costs, and improve repeatability

March 2, 2004

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ALLENTOWN, Pa. -- Circadiant, the company making optical testing simple, today introduced the A3308 Optical Standards Tester (OST) with multiple rates (1GE, SONET/SDH OC-48 & OC-192 / STM -16 & STM-64, 10 GigE, 10 GFC, OTN, and OTN with FEC), advanced test features, OTN protocol support and with new algorithms that reduce test times by up to a factor of 10 with assured repeatability and accuracy.

The A3308 automates common optical communication tests such as stressed receiver conformance, receiver sensitivity, path penalty, and BER vs. OSNR in a benchtop instrument that otherwise requires a full rack of test equipment. The multi-rate capabilities of the A3308 allow a wide variety of optical components and systems to be tested with just one instrument.

"The trend to use degraded optical signals to verify that devices will work in the real world is accelerating," said John French, CEO of Circadiant. "Now our signal degradation expertise, and our test automation capabilities, can be applied to the 1 Gigabit Ethernet, the 2.5 Gigabit SONET/SDH, the 10 Gigabit FibreChannel and the OTN markets, in addition to the 10 Gb/s SONET/SDH and 10 Gigabit Ethernet markets we have been serving."

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