IXIA 10GE LAN/WAN and OC 192 POS Load Modules
Overview
Ixia offers three families of load modules that operate in multiple modes, as specified in the following table.
Family | OC-192 POS | BERT | 10GE WAN | 10GE LAN | FEC | VCAT/ Channelized |
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10G MSM |
X |
X |
X |
X |
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OC-192 Triple Mode |
X |
X |
X |
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UNIPHY |
X |
X |
X |
X |
X |
Full specifications for each family may be found at:
10G MSM Family
The 10G MSM load module family consists of a UNIPHY LM Load module which supports SONET and Ethernet at 10G rates. Modes supported on this board include POS, WAN, and LAN. For POS there is additional feature support such as DCC, RPR, and SRP.
The following figure displays the 10G MSM module.
Figure: MSM10G1-02 Load Module
Note: Due to power requirements, only one MSM module can be used in a 400T chassis. Other modules can be used with the MSM in the same chassis.
Part Numbers
The MSM family part numbers are shown in the following table.
Load Module | Part Number | Description |
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MSM10G1-02 |
944-0012 |
10GE OC192 load module, 1-port Multi Services Module, supports 10GE LAN/WAN and optional OC-192c POS (order OPTOC192POS). Full features: supports routing and Linux-based applications. Requires an XFP transceiver. Purchase options include XFP-1310 and XFP-1550. Note: Maximum one (1) MSM10G1-02 load module permitted per IXIA 400T chassis. |
945-0005 |
SW-VCAT-SONET configuration option, SONET Virtual Concatenation (VCAT) Option license per port. Includes support for LCAS and GFP-F protocols. Requires purchase of a supported load module (see 945-0003 MSM2.5G1-01 or 944-0012 MSM10G1-02) |
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945-0002 |
SW-RPRSRP-SONET, OC-48/OC-192 configuration option, SONET RPR and SRP stream generation and protocol support, license per port. Requires purchase of a supported load module (see LMOC192xx, LM10GUxF, LMOC48xx, 945-0003 MSM2.5G1-01, or 944-0012 MSM10G1-02) |
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OPTOC192POS |
10 Gigabit Ethernet OC-102 POS configuration option for 944-0012 (MSM10G1-02) and LM10GUxx load modules. |
Specifications
MSM10G1-02 | |
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# ports |
1 |
-M Card Available |
No |
Layer2/Layer3 Card Available? |
Yes |
Layer 7 Card Available |
No |
Data Rate |
10GB |
Connector/Wavelength-Mode |
XFP 1310nm or 1550nm Single or pluggable |
Capture buffer size |
Up to 384 MB |
Captured packet size |
17-65,535bytes |
Streams per port |
256 |
Advanced streams |
256 |
Preamble size: min-max |
8 |
Frame size: min-max (bytes) |
17-65,535 |
Inter-frame gap: min-max1 |
4.0ns - 42sec in 3.2ns steps |
Inter-burst gap: min-max |
4.0ns - 42sec in 10.0ns steps |
Inter-stream gap:min-max |
4.0ns - 42sec in 10.0ns steps |
Normal stream frame rate |
0.023fps - full line rate |
Advanced stream min frame rate2 |
Slow: 0.023fpsFast: 1525fps |
Latency3 |
20ns resolution |
1Packet gap size also depends on the stream mode selected, Fixed or Average.
2Streams are divided up into two categories: 224 slow speed streams and 32 fast streams.
3 When performing latency measurements in POS mode, the following restrictions apply:
3 The minimum frame size should be 80 bytes for latency measurements to be supported at line rate. On the MSM10G, there is only one packet group mode (wide packet groups). Two different scenarios apply:
- 3If sequence checking is enabled, then the number of packet group IDs is limited in this way:
- 3When Wide Bin Mode (on the Wide Packet Groups page) is not enabled = 65536.
- 3When Wide Bin Mode is enabled = 524288.
- 3If sequence checking is not enabled, then the number of packet group IDs is limited in this way:
- 3When Wide Bin Mode (on the Wide Packet Groups page) is not enabled = 65536.
- 3When Wide Bin Mode is enabled = 2097152.
Port LEDs
Each 10G MSM port incorporates a set of LEDs, as described in the following table.
LED Label | Usage |
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LASER ON |
Green when the port's laser is turned on. Blank otherwise. |
Pause |
Green when transmit is paused, blank when powered off. |
PPP/Link |
Green in link up condition, Red in link down condition, blank indicates loopback mode enabled. |
Tx |
Green if transmit is active and frames are being sent, blank otherwise. |
LOS |
Green when signal level is good, Red when loss of signal occurs, blank if no transceiver detected. |
Option |
N/A |
Trigger |
Green when Trigger A condition occurs, Red for Temperature Fault, blank otherwise. |
Error |
Red when module in error state (fault condition), blank otherwise. |
Rx |
Green indicates valid receive frames, Red indicates errored frames received, blank when no frames received. |
LOF |
Green when valid framing occurs, Red when Loss of Frame occurs. |
Clock In/Out
The load module provides coaxial connectors for clock input and clock output to allow the DUT to phase-lock with the interface. When running off an external clock, the clock input signal must meet the requirements listed in the following table to ensure proper performance of the load module.
Parameter | Characteristic |
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Connector |
SMA |
Frequency |
SONET: 155.52 MHz ±20ppm 10GE: 161.132 MHz ±-100ppm |
Amplitude |
1.1 Vpp minimum, into 50 W, AC coupled |
Duty cycle |
40 to 60% |
The clock in/out electrical interface parameters are defined in the following table.
Parameter | Characteristic |
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Connector |
SMA |
Frequency |
SONET: 155.52 MHz ±20ppm 10GE: 161.132 MHz ±-100ppm |
Amplitude |
500m Vpp minimum, 600 Vpp typical into 50 W |
Duty cycle |
40 to 60% |
The load module contains a phase-locked loop (PLL) that reduces the jitter of the input clock, either from the internal or external clock source. The bandwidth of the PLL is approximately 1kHz.
Trigger Out
The signals and LEDs available on the trigger out pins for these cards are described in the following table.
Pin/LED | Value |
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Trigger Out |
10nS active high pulse on trigger |
Trigger LED |
Indicates Trigger, Pause Frame received in 10GE mode. |
Statistics
Statistics for 10G MSM cards, under various modes of operation may be found in Statistics for 10G MSM modules.
OC-192c Triple Mode Family
The OC-192c Triple Mode family of load modules implements Optical Carrier interfaces that run at OC192 speeds. The interface operates in concatenated mode, as opposed to channelized mode. One of the modules in this family (the LMOC192cPOS) is shown in the following figure.
Figure: LMOC192c Load Module
Part Numbering
The OC192 cards come with a number of options. All part numbers are of the form:
LMOC192HTOS or
LMFOC192HTOS
where H is the hundreds designator, T is the tens designator, O is the ones designator, and S is the suffix.
LMF boards have no fiber optic interface. It allows for quick validation of serializer and deserializer designs for WAN Packet over SONET/SDH products operating at the STS-192c/STM-64 level. The LMF interface is a 300 pin MegaArray BERG connector, which is an industry standard MSA interface and is compliant per OIF1999.102.8, SFI-4 specification. A reference clock can be supplied through this interface ranging in frequency from 25 MHz to 622 MHz.
The part numbers for these load modules are shown in the following table. Items without a Price List Names entry are no longer available.
Load Module | Part Number | Description |
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LMOC192cPOS |
POS, 1-port, intermediate reach (SR1), 1310nm, singlemode. |
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POS, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1310nm, singlemode. |
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POS, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1550nm, singlemode. |
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POS, 1-port, no optics. |
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LMOC192cVSRPOS |
LMOC192168 |
POS, 1-port, VSR optics, parallel interface. |
LMOC192cBERT |
BERT, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1310nm, singlemode. |
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BERT, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1550nm, singlemode. |
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LMOC192cVSR-BERT |
BERT, 1-port, VSR optics, parallel interface. |
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LMOC192cPOS+BERT |
POS with BERT, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1310nm, singlemode. |
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POS with BERT, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1550nm, singlemode. |
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LMOC192cVSR-POS+BERT |
LMOC192468 |
POS with BERT, 1-port, VSR optics. |
LMOC192cPOS+WAN |
POS+WAN, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1310nm, singlemode. |
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LMOC192cPOS+BERT+WAN |
POS+BERT+WAN, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1310nm, singlemode. |
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POS+BERT+WAN, 1-port, intermediate reach, 1550nm, singlemode. |
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LM10GEWAN |
10GBASE-LW (WAN), 1-port, 1310nm, singlemode. |
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10GBASE-EW (WAN), 1-port, 1550nm, singlemode. |
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Options |
SW-DCCSONET |
DCC SONET support. |
945-0002 |
SW-RPRSONET SW-SRPSONET SRP SONET and RPR SONET support. |
Specifications
The load module specifications are contained in the following table. Note that the -M modules are not included in the table; their limitations versus the non-M version are discussed in Ixia Load Modules.
LMOC192cPOS LMOC192cPOS+WAN | LMOC192cBERT | LMOC192cPOS+BERT1 | |
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# ports |
1 |
1 |
1 |
-M Card Available |
N |
N |
N |
Layer2/Layer3 Card Available? |
N |
N |
N |
Layer 7 Card Available |
N |
N |
N |
Data Rate |
1-100% of OC192 speeds |
N/A |
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Connector/Wavelength-Mode |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Singlemode |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Singlemode |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Singlemode |
Capture buffer size |
32MB |
N/A |
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Captured packet size |
33-64k |
N/A |
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Streams per port |
255 |
N/A |
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Flows per port |
N/A |
N/A |
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Advanced streams |
160 |
N/A |
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Preamble size: min-max |
N/A |
N/A |
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Frame size: min-max |
54-65535 |
N/A |
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Inter-frame gap: min-max |
N/A2 |
N/A |
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Inter-burst gap: min-max |
1us - 42sec |
N/A |
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Inter-stream gap: min-max |
1us - 42sec |
N/A |
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Normal stream frame rate |
0.023fps - full line rate |
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Advanced stream frame rate3 |
Slow: 0.023 - 2083333 fpsMed: 95fps - full line rateFast: 1525fps - full line rate |
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Latency |
20ns resolution |
N/A |
1Refer to the LMOC192cPOS and LMOC192cBERT columns for the characteristics of this card when its port is in POS or BERT mode, respectively.
2The inter-frame gap is indirectly controlled by the frame rate.
3Streams are divided up into three categories: 144 slow speed streams, 8 medium streams and 8 fast streams.
The Ixia VSR modules, which were developed in accordance with the OIF Implementation Agreement VSR-1, use twelve parallel multimode fiber optic lines operating at 1.25Gbps per channel, instead of existing 1310nm or 1550nm serial optics. VSR optics are designed to drive signals over distances less than 300 meters, which is sufficient for interconnecting devices within a service provider's Point-of-Presence (POP). Over these short distances, VSR optics offer a significant cost savings compared to intermediate and long-reach serial lasers.
When performing latency measurements, the following restrictions apply:
- If latency is measured with packets that are smaller than 80 bytes, then normal (not wide-packet group) mode should be used and the number of packet group IDs is limited to 1,024.
- If packets are 80 bytes or larger, then wide-packet group mode may be used. Two different scenarios apply when using wide-packet group mode:
- If sequence checking is enabled, then the number of packet group IDs is limited to 8,192.
- If sequence checking is not enabled, then the number of packet group IDs is limited to 128k.
Port LEDs
Each OC192c port incorporates a set of 10 LEDs, as described in the following table.
LED Label | Usage |
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LOS |
Red during Loss of Signal, Green otherwise. |
LOF |
Red during Loss of Frame, Green otherwise. |
PPP |
Green if a PPP link has been established. Red otherwise. |
Tx |
Green while data is transmitted. |
Rx |
Green while data is received. |
Error |
Red on any error. |
Trigger |
Follows the state of the Trigger Out pin, which is programmed through User Defined Statistic 1. |
Option 1 |
Reserved for future use. |
Option 2 |
Reserved for future use. |
LASER ON |
Green when the port's laser is turned on. |
Trigger Out Values
The signals available on the trigger out pins for all cards in this category are described in the following table.
Pin | Signal |
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A |
Low (0V) on User Defined Statistic 1 true.High (+5V) otherwise. |
B |
Low (0V) on User Defined Statistic 2 trueHigh (+5V) otherwise. |
Optical Specifications
The optical characteristics for the OC192c cards are described in the following table.
Specification | OC192c 1310nm | OC192c 1550nm | OC192c VSR-1 |
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Manufacturer |
GTRAN |
GTRAN |
Gore |
Average Output Power Min/Max |
+1 dBm/+5 dBm |
-1 dBm/+2 dBm |
-10 dBm/-5 dBm |
Transmit Center Wavelength Min/Max |
1300 nm/1320 nm |
1530 nm/1565 nm |
830 nm/860 nm |
Receive Center Wavelength Min/Max |
1280 nm/1580 nm |
1280 nm/1580 nm |
830 nm/860 nm |
Receive Sensitive Min/Max |
-17 dBm/0 dBm |
-17 dBm/0 dBm |
-16 dBm/-3 dBm |
Safety |
Class 1 Laser |
Class 1 Laser |
Class 1 Laser |
Note: An attenuating should be used when looping back to the same port or when using a short length of cable.
Statistics
Statistics for OC192 cards, under various modes of operation may be found in Statistics for OC192c Modules with BERT.
UNIPHY Family
The UNIPHY family of load modules is based on a universal PHY which allows each port to operate in a number of modes.
Part Numbers
The currently available part numbers are shown in the following table.
Load Module | Part Number | Description |
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LM10GUVF |
LM10GUVF |
10GE Universal Base Load Module with VSR parallel optics, 1-port, 1310nm, singlemode. One or more of OPTOC192POS, or OPTOC192BERT must be purchased. |
10G MSM |
MSM10G1-02 |
10G Universal Base Load Module, 1-port, 1550nm, singlemode. -P version uses a PowerPC with 256MB processor memory. One or more of OPTOC192POS must be purchased in addition. |
Transceivers |
XFP-1550 |
XFP Transceiver, 1550nm |
Options |
OPTOC192POS |
OC-192 POS configuration option for the LM10GU*F. |
OPTOC192BERT |
OC-192 BERT configuration option for the LM10GU*F. |
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SW-DCCSONET |
DCC SONET support for LM10GU*F. |
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945-0002 |
SW-RPRSONET SW-SRPSONET DCC SONET support for LM10GU*F. |
Specifications
The limitations of -M, Layer 2/3 and Layer 7 cards are discussed in Ixia Load Modules.
10GUEF/ULF/UPF/UVF (10GEWAN mode) | 10GUEF/ULF/UPF/UVF (10GE LAN mode | 10GUEF/ULF/UPF/UVF (OC192 mode) | 10GUEF/ULF/UPF/UVF (BERT mode)1 | 10GUEF-FEC2 | |
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# ports |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
-M Card Available |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Layer2/Layer3 Card Available? |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Layer 7 Card Available |
N |
N |
N |
N |
N |
Data Rate |
1-100% of 10Gbps speeds |
10GB |
1-100% of OC192 speeds |
N/A |
1-100% of 10Gbps/OC192 speeds |
Connector/Wavelength-Mode |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Single or pluggable |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Singlemode |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Singlemode |
SC/1310nm or 1550nm Singlemode |
SC/1550nm Singlemode |
Capture buffer size |
32MB |
32MB |
32MB |
N/A |
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Captured packet size |
24-65,000 bytes |
24-65,000 bytes |
33-64k |
N/A |
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Streams per port |
255 |
255, 32 (-M) |
255 |
N/A |
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Advanced streams |
160 |
16016 (-M version) |
160 |
N/A |
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Preamble size: min-max |
8 |
8 |
N/A |
N/A |
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Frame size: min-max |
24-65,000 |
24-65,000 |
54-1600 |
N/A |
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Inter-frame gap: min-max |
3/4ns - 43sec in 3.4ns steps |
3.2ns - 42sec in 3.2ns steps |
N/A |
N/A |
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Inter-burst gap: min-max |
3/4ns - 43sec in 3.4ns steps |
3.2ns - 42sec in 3.2ns steps |
N/A |
N/A |
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Inter-stream gap:min-max |
3/4ns - 43sec in 3.4ns steps |
3.2ns - 42sec in 3.2ns steps |
4ns - 42secs |
N/A |
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Normal stream frame rate |
0.023fps - full line rate |
0.023fps - full line rate |
0.023fps - full line rate |
N/A |
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Advanced stream min frame rate3 |
Slow: 0.023fpsMed: 95fpsFast: 1525fps |
Slow: 0.023fpsMed: 95fpsFast: 1525fps |
Slow: 0.023fpsMed: 95fpsFast: 1525fps |
N/A |
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Latency |
20ns resolution |
20ns resolution |
20ns resolution |
N/A |
1Framed BERT only, channelized and unframed BERT are not available.
2For values not shown, use values from the 10GEWAN/10GELan/OC192 columns according to mode.
3Streams are divided up into three speed streams: 144 slow, 8 medium and 8 fast. MSM family streams are divided into two speed streams: 224 slow and 32 fast.
Port LEDs
Each UNIPHY port incorporates a set of LEDs, as described in the following table.
LED Label | Usage |
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LOS | Red during Loss of Signal. Green when link has been established and no Loss of Signal. |
LOF | Red during Loss of Frame. Green when link has been established and no Loss of Signal. |
PPP/Link | Green if Ethernet/PPP link has been established. Red otherwise. |
Tx | Green while data is transmitted. |
Rx | Green while data is received. |
Error | Red on any Ethernet error. |
Trigger | Green when Trigger is applied. |
Pause | Indicates flow control frames have been received. |
Option | Reserved for future use. |
LASER ON | Green when the port's laser is turned on. Off otherwise. |
Trigger Out Values
The signals and LEDs available on the trigger out pins for UNIPHY family load modules are described in the following table.
Pin/LED | Value |
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Trigger Out A | Low (0V) on User Defined Statistic 1 true, high (+5v) otherwise. |
Trigger Out B | Low (0V) on (POS mode) User Defined Statistic 2 true or (Ethernet mode) pause frame detect, high (+5V) otherwise. |
Trigger LED | Pulses each time a Pause Request is detected. |
Pause/Option1 LED | Pulses each time a Pause Acknowledge is granted. |
Clock Out Values
For -XFP suffix load modules, one coaxial connector is provided to allow phase-lock to the DUT. The frequency is either 311.0400 MHz or 322.2656 MHz +/- 100ppm.
Optical Specifications
The optical characteristics for the UNIPHY cards are described in the following table.
Type | Specification | Wavelength | Value |
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Transmit | Output power (dBm) | 1310nm | -6 to -1 |
1550nm | -1 to 2 | ||
Distance (km) | 1310nm | 10 | |
1550nm | 40 | ||
Extinction ratio (dB) | 1310nm | 6 | |
1550nm | 8.2 | ||
Receive | Rx Sensitivity (dBm) | 1310nm | -12.6 |
1550nm | -14 | ||
Overload (dBm) | 1310nm | -1 | |
1550nm | -1 | ||
Dispersion (ps/nm) | 1310nm | 40 | |
1550nm | 800 |
Statistics
Statistics for UNIPHY cards, under various modes of operation may be found in Statistics for 10GE Modules with BERT and Statistics for 10G UNIPHY Modules with BERT.