Advantest Corporation has introduced its new 28G OPM (28-gigabit Optical Port Module), the company’s first solution designed specifically for testing optical transceivers – advanced semiconductor devices that transmit and receive data through optical fibers. By using fiber optics, these devices enable data transmissions over longer distances at faster speeds and lower power consumption than wire cables. This technology is used extensively in applications such as data centers, which manage the extremely high volumes of data transmissions used in mobile communications and cloud computing.
The semiconductor industry roadmap for optical transceivers calls for boosting speeds from today’s 40-Gbps interconnections to 100 Gbps by 2017 and possibly 400 Gbps by 2020. The new solution is among the first integrated solutions capable of cost-efficiently testing these high-speed devices.
By mounting the new module on the T2000 platform, this solution can simultaneously test up to eight 100-Gbps transceivers. To test each 100-Gbps transceiver, four lanes of both optical and electrical 28-Gbps ports are used. This integrated automated test equipment (ATE) solution enables faster cycle times and greater operating efficiency at a lower cost of test while also offering the benefit of being fully supported by Advantest’s global customer service network.
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