JDSU, SyntheSys Research Team to Provide First-of-Kind Physical Layer Optical Testing

February 13th, 2006 -- JDSU and SyntheSys Research today announced a channel agreement for the BERTScope(TM) family of products, creating the industry's most comprehensive source of physical layer test solutions for optical components, modules and network elements, further enhancing JDSU's position as a major source of test solutions for the lab environment and network equipment manufacturers (NEMs).

With this agreement -- which covers Europe, Asia-Pacific (excluding Japan), Canada, and targeted accounts in the US -- equipment manufacturers will have seamless access to the industry's leading portfolio of physical layer optical test, measurement, and automated solutions for jitter, BERT, stressed eye sensitivity, SONET/SDH transport, and optical parametrics. The portfolio will be on display by both companies at OFC/NFOEC 2006 in Anaheim, California, March 5-10, 2006 (JDSU booth #2323, SyntheSys Research booth #3331).

"In our most recent optical network hardware survey, we report that consumer broadband and corporate traffic continues to grow, with a number of service providers reporting 80-100 percent growth each year, and this is before the spike of IPTV traffic arrives," stated Michael Howard, principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics. "Mobile telephony and mobile data (2.5G, 3G) traffic is also growing, supporting continued single- to double- digit annual increases in most metro optical equipment categories. At the same time, service providers have been pushing their networks to use more capacity with minimal equipment purchases. This environment compounds the need for comprehensive and reliable optical test solutions like those offered by JDSU and SyntheSys Research."

"SyntheSys Research is the innovator of a totally new class of 'BERT' instrument -- the BERTScope. This instrument uniquely samples the serial data stream at clock speed for measuring BER and displaying the jitter in a precise eye-diagram. This patented sampling technique allows the engineer to actually see the one-in-a-billion bit causing closure of the eye. It helps the engineer to accurately characterize complex serial data components and systems, resulting in reduced test times and costs in development and production," said Dr. Lutz Henckels, Chief Executive Officer, SyntheSys Research. "

The comprehensive JDSU/SyntheSys Research solution includes the JDSU OPTX10 line of reference generators, which have been tested for seamless interoperability with the SyntheSys BERTScope S and the new BERTScope CR HS clock recovery instrument.

This unique combination of instruments creates an optimized test solution for optical receiver testing up to 10.71 Gbps and enables design engineers to easily measure IEEE 802.3ae stressed receiver sensitivity, jitter and test for compliance with greater insight into device characterization at BER of 10-12.

Also included in the portfolio is the JDSU ONT-506/512 -- which offers SONET/SDH, New SONET/SDH, OTN, Ethernet BERT, and highest-accuracy jitter testing at the physical layer -- and the JDSU Multiple Application Platform (MAP) for optical signal conditioning, an intuitive software programming tool that accelerates integration while significantly reducing costs relative to standard bench-top solutions.