Solutions for Optical Test Automation:

The Next Level of Productivity and Innovation

Increase the ratio of test time to set-up time by a factor of 100. Save $100,000's in test equipment. Test multiple devices at once. Allocate resources, schedule and run tests 24/7 from across the country? Sound impossible? It's not.

These are all goals of the optimal test environment. Our Instrumentation solutions are designed to enable efficient physical and protocol layer testing (Layer 1 thru 4 testing) of components, subsystems, and systems. It is now possible to provide automated connectivity at a reasonable cost without resorting to electrical conversions, that destroy the physical layer integrity of the signal and mask the ability to correlate to physical-layer behavior.

Based on the Polatis DirectLight beam-steering technology, true instrumentation quality performance and extremely high repeatability permit "fiber and forget" levels of confidence - enabling the user to focus on the device under test and not the fiber management.' [Polatis Solutions]

Customer Spotlight: Manufacturing at Lucent Technologies

Partnership Spotlight:

Polatis – JDSU Distribution Agreement for Optical Switches

Since March 2005, JDSU and Polatis have partnered in a worldwide sales distribution agreement (see original release), with the intent to address a rapidly growing opportunity for switching in various test & instrumentation markets. This agreement brought together the Polatis family of optical cross-connect switches with the JDSU portfolio of test equipment and its network of re-sellers, direct sales, and distribution channels. This partnership provides a compelling value for engineers in test applications – optimized test & automation solutions – through the combination of the highest performance optical switches, JDSU’s broad family of optical test equipment, all delivered through the JDSU sales and support infrastructure that engineers know and trust.

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Customer Spotlight:

OpNext chooses Polatis switch to help increase throughput, maintain high quality

The Polatis Test & Instrumentation line of optical switch products continue to demonstrate the value of automated optical testing in high volume, quality-critical manufacturing environments. OpNext, a market leader in active optical components for the telecommunications, data communications, industrial and informational industries, needed to increase its manufacturing capabilities, to meet sharply increased customer demand for its products, and shrinking lead time requirements. Working through its partner JDSU, Polatis met the challenge in this high sensitivity test environment. The Polatis switch was part of an optical signal management solution delivered by JDSU.