THE CHOICE FOR INTEGRATED MULTISERVICE TRANSPORT TESTING
The responsibilities of traditional SONET/SDH telecom field installation personnel have evolved over the last few years. With the advent of packet-aware SONET/SDH add-drop multiplexers—including multi-service transport platforms (MSTPs) and new reconfigurable add-drop multiplexers (ROADMs)—technicians must not only perform traditional SONET/SDH tests, but are now also responsible for verifying packet-based services such as Ethernet and 10 Gigabit Ethernet running over the same network elements.

This has resulted in a growing need for multi-technology test solutions to support the deployment, operation and maintenance of these multi-service platforms and the corresponding data-aware SONET/SDH networks.