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Sunrise Telecom Intros New Test System for Service Providers

By Michelle Robart, TMCnet Editor

Sunrise Telecom (News - Alert), a company providing test and measurement solutions for telecom, cable and wireless networks, today went public with the STT 40G, the newest addition to its STT product family.

 

The STT 40G is a 40G/43G test system that was created specifically to assess the performance of new, high-bandwidth synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH), optical transport networks (OTN) and SONET networks. 

 

Increasing demands for high-bandwidth applications have placed service providers under immense pressure. To meet their customers’ needs, providers must quickly upgrade their transport networks with 40G/43G technology, but today’s tough economic times are forcing them to adhere to minimal spending.

 

Sunrise Telecom’s STT 40G offers a solution to these problems by allowing communications providers to augment their test portfolio for successful 40G/43G optical networks deployment without entirely replacing lower rate test sets.

 

“40G SDH/SONET and 43G OTN are the latest high capacity technologies being deployed over DWDM as carriers upgrade to meet growing bandwidth demand,” said Michael Howard (News - Alert), principal analyst and co-founder of Infonetics Research. “To test, deploy, operate, and maintain peak network performance, service providers need correspondingly new tools to verify transport network performance. The STT 40G is designed for these high speed service functions while also minimizing equipment investments.”

 

“As super-high-bandwidth links, like OTU3, STM-256 or OC-768 carry more user traffic, a single failure could have a catastrophic impact on a large subscriber base and create a major crisis for service or transport providers. Communications providers need powerful and comprehensive testing procedures and tools to appropriately provision these mission critical circuits,” said Bahaa Moukadam (News - Alert), Sunrise Telecom’s vice president of marketing.  

 

The STT 40G has expansive applications in pre-deployment test labs, central offices and in the field. Communication service providers, including telcos, cable operators, wireless service providers, long haul and trans-oceanic (fiber) transport companies can deploy the STT 40G in central offices and key points of presence throughout their core networks as they bring 40G/43G links into service, troubleshoot and maintain their networks. 

 

With the STT 40G, network equipment manufacturers can outfit their installation and maintenance crews to confirm successful network element turn-up.

 

“Unlike other 40G testers on the market today, the Sunrise Telecom STT 40G has been designed with an intense focus on extreme user friendliness while at the same time being able to perform comprehensive 40G/43G link performance and reliability testing enabling communications providers to deliver reliable services to their customers,” explained Moukadam.

 

Compared to single purpose 40G testers, the STT platform enables users to test a wide range of Ethernet up to 10GbE, SONET/SDH, xWDM and ROADM (News - Alert) technologies in a single platform, cutting down on overall CapEx spending. The optional 10/10.7G drop feature lets technicians drop test signals to lower rate instruments and carry out complementary tests. This feature is especially beneficial in lab settings where technicians frequently need to map lower rate signals coming from a network element, simulator, or analyzer to 40/43G links.           

 

The STT 40G is currently available to order from the company and customer shipments will begin in December. 

 

Sunrise Telecom’s robust portfolio of feature-rich, easy-to-use products that enables service providers to provide superior voice, video, data and next-generation digital multimedia services quickly, reliably, and affordably.

                                               

Michelle Robart is a contributing editor for TMCnet. To read more of Michelle's articles, please visit her columnist page.

Edited by Michelle Robart