Sunrise Unveils 40G/43G Test System

Sunrise Telecom has announced the latest edition to its STT product family. The STT 40G/43G test system is designed to verify the performance of new, high-bandwidth synchronous digital hierarch (SDH), optical transport networks (OTN) and SONET networks.

The demand for high-bandwidth applications continues to grow quickly, placing severe demands on service providers to rapidly upgrade their transport networks with 40G/43G technology. The state of the economy makes it tough as well. Sunrise Telecom says its 40G meets these challenges by enabling communications providers to augment their test portfolio for successful 40G/43G optical networks deployment without completely 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, 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, Sunrise Telecom’s vice president of marketing.