TraceSpan Launches GPON Tracer™ - The World's First Handheld GPON Tester

Industry leader in broadband access analysis introduces innovative concept in GPON testing

Ra'anana, Israel /PRNewswire/ --

TraceSpan™ Communications, a leader in broadband analysis and monitoring solutions, announced today the release of GPON Tracer™ 380, the first and only handheld tester for on-site GPON network monitoring and troubleshooting.

GPON Tracer™ is the ideal tool for telecom operators' field engineers involved in GPON network troubleshooting, as well as for OLT and ONU manufacturers' customer support teams. With its user-friendly touch-screen interface, GPON Tracer™ provides a rich variety of real-time indications in textual and graphical formats, including downstream and upstream data rates, optical power levels for the OLT and for every one of the ONUs in the network, link and transmission errors and service interruptions. In addition, it includes a built-in mechanism for escalation of complex issues to higher tiers, by means of recording the GPON and upper layer protocol data for extensive analysis by the GPON Xpert™ multi-layer analyzer.

"The continued growth in GPON deployments has created an increasing need for on-site troubleshooting of GPON equipment and networks," said Dr. Hanan Herzberg, TraceSpan founder and CEO, "and TraceSpan has addressed this need with the introduction of GPON Tracer™. Some of our key customers have already given us excellent feedbacks about GPON Tracer™, and other major telecom operators and manufacturers are waiting in line to receive their first units and provide their field support teams with new testing capabilities never seen before."

Over the last years TraceSpan has established its position as the unquestioned leader in GPON testing. With a solid installed base and a growing number of customers every month, the company's GPON Xpert™ analyzer and OLT emulator continues to be the standard de-facto GPON testing solution in the market. The addition of GPON Tracer™ to TraceSpan's portfolio expands the company's offering to provide end-to-end GPON testing solutions for both the lab and the field.

GPON Tracer™ will be presented in the CommunicAsia 2013 exhibition and conference in Marina Bay Sands in Singapore,June 18th through 21st, 2013, stand 1B3-12.

About TraceSpan Communications

TraceSpan Communications develops and manufactures innovative broadband testing and monitoring solutions. Empowered by patent-pending breakthrough technology, TraceSpan's performance analysis and Lawful Interception products enable non-intrusive monitoring of data in broadband networks. TraceSpan's multi-layer analyzers are accepted worldwide as the industry's first passive analyzers for vendor-independent testing of GPON, VDSL2, ADSL2Plus, ADSL2, ADSL and DOCSIS networks. Highly flexible and easy to use, TraceSpan products deliver significant cost savings, faster time to market, and rapid return on investment to Telco's, MSOs and service providers, system vendors, chipset developers, and technology innovators. For more information, visit http://www.tracespan.com.