EXFO launches two new spectrum analysis products

QUEBEC CITY, CANADA: EXFO Inc. today announced two new products, the FTB-5230S Optical Spectrum Analyzer (OSA), an entry-level OSA suitable for a variety of field applications, and the FTB-5230S-OCA Optical Channel Analyzer (OCA), optimized for power and wavelength measurements.

In addition to the FTB-5230S, EXFO has launched the FTB-5230S-OCA, an attractive compromise between an OSA and a channel analyzer. Integrating the best of both solution types, this tool offers power and central wavelength measurements, along with high-power measurements up to 23 dBm per channel, at the value of an advanced channel analyzer.

Designed for maximum simplicity in the field, this OCA keeps settings to a bare minimum. The FTB-5230S-OCA has also been optimized for a number of multiwavelength applications (DWDM, CWDM, DWDM over CWDM, and CFP power measurements), and can be seamlessly upgraded in the field to an FTB-5230S OSA via software key.

Étienne Gagnon, VP of EXFO's test and measurement division said: "Offering an affordable and versatile spectral analysis solution, the OCA is ideal for cable operators deploying hybrid networks (DWDM over CWDM), in addition to CWDM and DWDM. The OCA is also perfect for client-side power measurements, which are increasingly multiwavelength due to use of CFPs."