Wavecrest Corporation Expands Fibre Channel And Gigabit Ethernet Capabilities With Enhanced Communications Test Set

Wavecrest Corporation face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><%=company%>, exhibiting at the Fibre Channel Technologies Conference, today introduced an enhanced version of its Fibre Channel/Gigabit Ethernet Communications Test Set. This latest system includes the new AG-100™ Arm Generator, the DTS-2077™ Communication Signal Analyzer, and VISI™ 6.0 Virtual Instrument Signal Integrity DataCOM software. The release of the AG-100 enables Test Set users to perform jitter compliance measurements using only the data signals. Like its predecessor, the Test Set will simplify compliance testing for a variety of network communications devices, boards and systems.

"The phenomenal demand for our first Test Set drove this development project," said John Patrin, Product Manager. "Our design team once again delivered a robust, effective solution that adds key functionality for those engineers designing and testing the next generation communications devices."

Key features of the Enhanced Fibre Channel / Gigabit Ethernet Communications Test System include:

• Compliance Testing - Jitter compliance measurements on RAID systems and controller boards, host bus adapters and disk drives - without a bit clock or trigger.
• Total Jitter Separation - Separate Total Jitter into Random and Deterministic components.
• BERT Correlation - The Fibre Channel/Gigabit Ethernet Communications Test Set is a BERT equivalent tester. The Test Set delivers valuable diagnostic data for design and characterization not available from a traditional BERT analyzer. Furthermore, it does so in a fraction of the time.
• Variable Speeds - Perform jitter measurements at 1X and 2X speeds for both Fibre Channel and Gigabit Ethernet.

The WAVECREST Fibre Channel/Gigabit Ethernet Communications Test Set is available for immediate delivery, worldwide. Special introductory pricing is in effect until January 31, 2001. For pricing and ordering information, please call (800) 733-7128.

WAVECREST Corporation provides innovative and leading edge electronic test and measurement products for the design and production of electronic and photonic components and systems. WAVECREST signal integrity, jitter and timing analysis solutions are widely used to measure, diagnose and test diverse applications including PLL, Fibre Channel, Gigabit Ethernet and fiber optical devices/systems.