EXFO (News - Alert) Inc recently launched the new FTB-700G Series Optical and Ethernet Testing Modules. The company has managed to successfully create a new standard in the evolution of field-testing efficiency by bringing together ethernet and optical testing in a single module. EXFO has always focused on being one of the leading companies that releases game-changing solutions like EXFO Connect, iOLM and EtherSAM.

The new FTB-700G Series is located in the robust FTB-1 handheld field platform and is currently the only test solution on the market that brings together all the functionalities that are required to successfully authorize, activate and troubleshoot all fiber-based mobile infrastructures and the services that run through them.

In a statement, Claudio Mazzuca , Vice-President of EXFO's Transport and Service Assurance Division said "Improving customer experience while keeping operational expenses under control is a major concern for mobile network operators. By offering a solution adapted to their reality and challenges, EXFO is empowering today's field technicians to become experts in any given field while ensuring that the job is always done fast and right the first time."

The FTB-700G Series is impressive because it brings together a number of powerful optical tools which include the powerful iOL, which is EXFO's most advanced OTDR-based technology, a power meter and a visual fault locator, the next-generation FIP-400B Series fiber inspection probes and an advanced array of packet transport testing functionalities up to 10G. A good example of this would be the EtherSAM (ITU-T Y 1564), SyncE/1588 PTP, CPRI, OBSAI, and SONET/SDH for complete validation of all SLA parameters.

The FTB-700G Series is a unique testing solution that has been specially created to address the needs of today's mobile network field technicians. Fiber and ethernet are considered to be a must have for most mobile network operators because it gives their field technicians the opportunity to access some of the best solutions via the optical and Ethernet worlds so that they can speed up and keep their test process extremely simple.