Test Access - Lab Automation

Test Access and Lab Automation Switching products.  Streamlining Lab physical transport media has proven to be even more cost-effective that originally thought.  Time savings in test set-up and tear-downs can easily offset the intial cost of implementing a workable "automated" solution.

GlimmerGlass Networks - Fully Optical (O-to-O), non-blocking topology using the industry's most reliable MEMs technology.  The Glimmerglass MEMS have been in constant field use around the world, and extensivley within many of the top Government Lab applications, without fail.  Key feature sets include Multi-cast support, inbound and outbound optical signal level monitoring, and Variable optical attenuators.  O-O switches are commonly used when the transport streams exceed 10Gig.  At those rates/bandwidths, any introduction of components which perform any sort of optical-electrical-optical transition become point of error, or inadvertently introduce the very types of impairments under observation.  A true Optical-Optical is both rate independent, and wavelength independent.

Glimmerglass Product Overview        Download PDF>>

Glimmerglass in the Lab        Download PDF>>

MRV Communications  - The MCC series of switches provided unparalleled performance in almost any topology that can support optical-to-electrical (O-E-O) switching fabric.Ethernet, Gig Ethernet, SONET rates up to OC-192 are all supported.

MRV Media Cross-Connect.        See White Paper

MRV Media Cross-Connect Family Overview            Download PDF>>

Lightwave Article on Media Cross-Connects            See Article