Tektronix, Inc. announced a significant expansion of its BERTScope Bit Error Rate Tester Series to meet growing 100G testing requirements.
The new BERTScope, with its industry leading sub 300 femtoseconds intrinsic jitter noise floor, brings extremely accurate BER test and root-cause PHY layer analysis to the growing portfolio of Optical Communications Test products from Tektronix.
The Tektronix BERTScope and Performance Oscilloscopes alike have adopted a jitter decomposition model that separates out bounded uncorrelated jitter (BUJ) for rapid insight into potential design problems related to crosstalk. For 100G testing, 28.6 Gb/s bit error rate (BER) stressed receiver testing has emerged as an important requirement for ensuring standard compliance and performance. This data rate provides adequate room for margin verification and forward error correction (FEC) that is required on top of the 25.78125 Gb/s data rate of 100GBASE-LR & ER-4.
The combination of high-speed pattern generation and error detection on the BERTScope provides a fast time to answer for complex measurement scenarios that involve debug root cause analysis.
Tektronix, Inc.
www.tektronix.com
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