Datasheet
OCC - Optical Cross Connect
Single-Mode Fiber Optic Switch
Applications
Network or storage eqipment manufacturing
Carrier fiber installation and maintenance
New product development or interoperability labs
Software regression testing
Customer support environments
Features
Transparency:
2.0 dB typical insertion loss
Scalability:
up to 640 fiber terminations per system
Modularity:
expansion in increments of 8 ports
High-density:
fully populated system occupies 17
rack units, 19” rack
Reliability:
carrier-class redundancy with proven
performance
Simplicity:
installation, integration, and use with
EMS-ready GUI
Flexibility:
19-inch standard rack, 23-inch rack,
and ETSI rack mounts
Overview
Network
equipment
manufacturers,
storage
system
manufacturers, carriers, and enterprise organizations encounter
challenges in test lab environments. Increasing competitive
pressure to bring products to market is driving the need for
test lab automation. Sophisticated software products can can
automate your test scripts, reservation and inventory systems,
and schedule tests, but if physical cabling has to be manually
configured, dynamic tests cannot be performed.
The “wire-once” technology of a physical layer switch turns the
practice of manually configuring test topologies into a software
process, electronically storing and recalling configurations
as needed. Test time and configuration errors are reduced,
repeatability of tests is improved, and lab efficiency is increased.
Benefits
Wire-Once Technology
- Configurations are
performed using software commands. Changing
topologies requires only a simple mouse click.
Increased Lab Efficiency and Productivity
-
Topologies can be stored using a web-based
GUI or industry-standard TL-1 commands. Test
topologies can be scripted and automatically
executed. Inventory management and tracking
is simplified because equipment is not physically
moved for tests.
Decreased Capital Expenditures
- By sharing
expensive test equipment, capital equipment
costs can be minimized without compromixing
capabilities.
MRV’s Optical Cross Connect
In addition to the intricacies of the testing environment, fiber
rates and protocols to be tested are increasing in complexity.
The necessity to test fiber rates of 40 Gbps and above while
maintaining optical attributes is becoming more common.
MRV’s Test Automation Product (TAP) line addresses this situation
with the Optical Cross Connect (OCC), an all-optical physical
layer (OSI Layer 1) switch. The OCC complements MRV’s optical-
electrical-optical (OEO) physical layer switch, the Media Cross
Connect (MCC), which supports multi-media applications.
Physical layer switching can save time and money by using wire
once technology to execute test topology configuration changes
through software control that allows:
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