Agilent HP J7232A OmniBer OTN Opt.004, 012, 106, 325, 609, CFG 003

The Agilent HP J7232A OmniBER OTN is a communications performance analyzer purpose-built for testing Optical Transport Network (OTN) and SONET/SDH devices. It delivers comprehensive performance verification across ITU-T G.709 optical channel standards, SONET/SDH mappings, and concatenations. Supporting data rates from 1.5 Mb/s to 10.71 Gb/s, the analyzer enables end-to-end validation of transport infrastructure with integrated jitter, wander, and encapsulation analysis.

– Technical Specifications

• Data Rates: 1.5 Mb/s to 10 Gb/s; OTU-1 at 2.66 Gb/s; OTU-2 at 10.71 Gb/s; standard telecom rates 52 Mb/s to 2.5 Gb/s (optical); 52 Mb/s and 155 Mb/s (electrical)
• Standards: ITU-T G.709 OTN, SONET/SDH, DSn/PDH (with optional configurations)
• Jitter Testing: High-accuracy measurement to 10.71 Gb/s; compliant with ITU-T O.172 (SONET/SDH) and ITU-T O.173 (OTN)
• Wander Testing: 52 Mb/s to 10 Gb/s with MTIE/TDEV analysis
• Differential Delay: Full G.707 generation and measurement up to 256 ms
• Channel Monitoring: Simultaneous monitoring of up to 192 STS/AU channels

– Key Features

• OTU2 optical channel support with Forward Error Correction (FEC) simulation and frame capture
• Signal Wizard: simultaneous BER and alarm monitoring across all SONET/SDH STS/AU channels
• SONET/SDH APS service disruption measurements with network-realistic mixed mapping
• Contiguous concatenation support for SONET/SDH configurations
• Ethernet payload mapping with GFP (G.7041) and LAPS (X.86) encapsulation simulation and analysis
• Virtual Concatenation (G.707) and LCAS (G.7042) emulation for high and low order paths
• Programmable jitter tolerance and transfer function
• Parallel jitter measurements for accelerated testing
• Encapsulation Analyzer with detailed client data capture for complex troubleshooting
• Thru-Mode monitoring capability

– Typical Applications

• OTN transport layer validation and performance characterization
• SONET/SDH network infrastructure testing and device verification
• Jitter and wander compliance testing against ITU-T standards
• Service activation and network acceptance testing
• payload encapsulation analysis

– Compatibility & Integration

Available in multiple configurations: mainframe with side-mounted connectors (J7232A-004); DSn/PDH electrical and framed/unframed testing capability (J7232A-012); multirate SONET/SDH optical testing (J7232A-104). Additional options support enhanced optical and electrical interface requirements.