EXFO FTBx-5235 Optical Spectrum Analyzer Module FTBx-5235-1A

EXFO FTBx-5235 Optical Spectrum Analyzer Module

The FTBx-5235 is a compact, entry-level optical spectrum analyzer that is ideal for a variety of field applications, including DWDM and CWDM network commissioning and troubleshooting. It includes all the typical OSA capabilities:

• Power and wavelength measurements
• WDM and drift mode
• OSNR testing according to IEC 61280-2-9 (interpolation method)
• Offline post-processing

Users can quickly learn to operate the FTBx-5235 because it features an intuitive Windows interface. The FTBx-5235 can also handle a lot of power, up to 23 dBm per channel, ideal for modern cable operator networks.

Cable operators are not just rolling out CWDM and DWDM, they are deploying hybrid networks, where DWDM wavelengths are overlaid onto CWDM wavelengths, as well as Remote PHY. EXFO’s new and compact FTBx-5235 addresses all these applications with a single product, for maximum convenience.

100 GigE deployments are now commonplace, triggering a transition from 10G and lower rate service (SFP/SFP+XFP) to 40G/100G using CFPs and QSFP28. This is in turn leading to multiwavelength client-side communications instead of single-wavelength transmissions. Since CFPs/QPSF28 have longer reaches (up to 10 km for LR4), meeting the loss budget is more challenging than ever before. Moreover, CFPs and QPSP28 greatly vary in quality, and sizable quantities of pluggables are simply defective. All these trends are calling for CFP/QPSF28 power measurements at the network element, where the client-side signals are converted to line-side signals. The FTBx-5235 is perfectly designed to assess the quality of pluggables in today’s context of rapid network transformation.

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