Anritsu releases plug-in for MP1590B

The plug-in unit creates a single-instrument 10G transport test solution with the MP1590B mainframe and allows the tester to accurately evaluate the performance of SDH/SONET, OTN and PDH/DSn equipment from 1.5M to 11.1G, as well as 10GbE interfaces during development and manufacturing.

With the plug-in, the MP1590B can replace the multiple instruments that had previously been required to support SDH/SONET, OTN and PDH/DSn, as well as 10GbE.

For SONET/SDH equipment, the MP1590B can simultaneously measure all higher order (HO) and lower order (LO) of VT1.5/VC11 and error/alarm, BER and automatic protection switch (APS).

Delay time measurements can be done for the 5,376 channels simultaneously.

Eliminating the need to conduct separate measurements for each channel dramatically reduces test time and improves measurement efficiency.

For DSn or PDH equipment, it can perform function tests using multiplexer/demultiplexer (MUX/DEMUX) measurement, error insertion or alarm addition.

For OTN measurement, the MP1590B is equipped with Poisson error insertion and variable optical output power functions, so it can efficiently evaluate forward error correction (FEC) used with OTN equipment.

For 10GE, the MP1590B provides the PCS (physical coding sub-layer) measurement and link fault signalling measurement.

The single-instrument solution reduces the cost of testing.

Additionally, a built-in 10G optical interface (XFP) eliminates the need for dedicated optical interfaces when measuring 10G performances, thereby lowering setup costs by 15 per cent compared with conventional 10G test configurations.

The MU150110A is the newest plug-in module for the MP1590B, which has been developed with a flexible design that makes expanding test capability easy and cost efficient.

The network performance tester can perform simultaneous applications, such as SDH/SONET, OTN, EoS, jitter, and Ethernet measurement using combinations of plug-in units.

The MP1590B can be expanded to support jitter measurement with +/-20mUIp-p accuracy.

It also includes measurement repeatability of +/-5mUIp-p and guaranteed low intrinsic jitter of 50mUIp-p.

Its Golden TX feature guarantees the jitter generation of the MP1590B's transmitter, providing a known jitter value that can be used as a reference transmission for calibrating other jitter testers.