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BREAKING NEWS
Tektronix Acquires Optametra, Inc.
Combination of Optametra and Tektronix creates best-in-class analysis and performance to address emerging coherent optical standards
Beaverton, OR, July 26, 2011 – Tektronix, Inc., a leading supplier of test, measurement, and monitoring products and solutions, today announced the acquisition of Optametra, LLC. The details of the transaction were not disclosed.
Founded in 2007, Optametra is focused on coherent test for 100G and beyond. Optametra launched its 40G Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzer in March 2009 and followed up with a 100G later that same year. The company is a pioneer in coherent test, and continues to lead with products and customer support in the R&D and manufacturing spaces. The Optametra Signal Analysis Suite offers the most relevant information display, most relevant modulation formats, and widest linewidth tolerance. .
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Optametra Innovations Video from OFC/NFOEC 2011
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Optametra Demonstrates New 3-D Signal Analysis Capabilities
at OFC/NFOEC 2011
March 8th, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin – (BUSINESS WIRE) Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, has added new 3-D analysis and visualization capabilities. This dramatically enhances the utility of coherent signal analysis, as constellations can now be viewed in three dimensions instead of two.
Optametra is showing live demonstrations at OFC/NFOEC 2011 of these newly added 3-D analysis and visualization capabilities in conjunction with real-time digitizers (oscilloscopes). "With Optametra's focus on coherent, we continue to provide industry-leading relevant signal analysis capabilities, now including 3-D constellation display", said Daniel van der Weide, Optametra's Vice President of Engineering.
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Optametra Demonstrates New 3-D Signal Analysis Capabilities
at OFC/NFOEC 2011
March 8th, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin – (BUSINESS WIRE) Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, has added new 3-D analysis and visualization capabilities. This dramatically enhances the utility of coherent signal analysis, as constellations can now be viewed in three dimensions instead of two.
Optametra is showing live demonstrations at OFC/NFOEC 2011 of these newly added 3-D analysis and visualization capabilities in conjunction with real-time digitizers (oscilloscopes). "With Optametra's focus on coherent, we continue to provide industry-leading relevant signal analysis capabilities, now including 3-D constellation display", said Daniel van der Weide, Optametra's Vice President of Engineering.
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Optametra Demonstrates Industry Leading Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers™ at OFC/NFOEC 2011
March 5th, 2011
Madison, Wisconsin – (BUSINESS WIRE) Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, will demonstrate its latest OM4106B Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers at OFC/NFOEC 2011, Los Angeles Convention Center, Booth 1316, March 8-10, 2011, highlighting the capabilities of this instrument for serial communications analysis in fiber at 100 Gb/s and beyond.
Leading features of the OM4106B include over 32 GHz bandwidth, frequency response equalized to a standard filter shape, industry-leading Tailor Made™ Signal Analysis Suite, the most relevant information displays, and the widest laser linewidth tolerance, all accelerating productivity in R&D and manufacturing. While the OM4106B has always offered the most relevant modulation formats, Optametra now includes offset-pol QPSK, ODB, and others. Furthermore, Optametra now offers a 23 GHz fully-upgradable version of its OM4106B to reduce start-up costs. Optametra products work with all real-time digitizers (oscilloscopes) and include comprehensive remote access and ATE capabilities for production.
At OFC/NFOEC 2011, Optametra is showing multiple live demonstrations of the OM4106 and its powerful capabilities with different real-time scopes. "Because we are dedicated to coherent, we accelerate the ability of our R&D and manufacturing customers to develop transmission systems at 100 G and beyond," said Rob Marsland, President of Optametra.
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Optametra Demos Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzer at ECOC 2010
September 18th, 2010
Verona, Wisconsin – (BUSINESS WIRE) Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, will demonstrate its latest OM4106B Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzer at ECOC 2010 with LeCroy, (booth number 434), highlighting the capabilities of this instrument for serial communications analysis in fiber at 100 Gb/s and beyond.
Leading features of the OM4106B include over 30 GHz bandwidth, frequency response equalized to a standard filter shape, industry-leading rapid setup, and purpose-built MATLAB software for the highest levels of productivity. The OM4106B offers specific tools such as Q vs. decision threshold, laser phase spectra, signal spectra, BER, Poincare sphere, CD compensation and EVM, as well as QAM and offset QPSK formats. Optametra products work with all real-time digitizers (oscilloscopes) and include comprehensive remote access and ATE capabilities for production.
“Together with our ability to run with the fastest real-time scopes, our rapid setup and purpose built software enable our customers to accelerate both their development and production programs,” said Daniel van der Weide, Vice President of Optametra.
Why is Coherent Lightwave Signal Analysis Needed?
Live on: September 13, 2010
10:00 AM PDT | 12:00 PM CDT | 1:00 PM EDT | 6:00 PM BST
 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analysis is needed for understanding and optimizing optical networks employing advanced modulation schemes to achieve transmission rates of 100G and beyond. This webcast covers the advantages of Coherent Lightwave Signal Analysis in the R&D environment, its utility in the qualification and production environment, types of filtering and compensation techniques, effects of bandwidth limitations, necessary equipment and its costs, the trade-offs between real-time and sampling instruments, future-proofing your investment, and the advantages of purpose-built solutions. Watch webinar >
Measuring Coherent Optical Modulation
Recorded on July 27, 2010
 In order to increase the capacity of existing fiber optic transmission systems, complex modulation schemes are being developed which maximize the use of the available bandwidth. These modulation schemes use the optical phase in addition to its amplitude to code information allowing for transmission speeds in the hundreds of Gb/s over a single optical wavelength. The most widely used form of coherent optical modulation is known as DP-QPSK (dual polarized quadrature phase shift keying) and has been demonstrated at speeds up to 224 Gb/s. Measuring this type of signal differs significantly from the more traditional methods used for OOK (on off keying) signals. Performance metrics such as extinction ratio and eye mask testing are replaced with constellation diagrams and bit error ratio. In addition, coherent optical signals utilize intradyne modulation which requires an optical local oscillator and digital signal processing to detect and measure. This one hour webinar will discuss optical intradyne transmission and coherent detection along with the key measurements for these systems compared to more traditional OOK systems. Equipment requirements will be discussed and a measurement example will be presented. Watch webinar >
Watch a video featuring Optametra founders at OFC/NFOEC 2010 in San Diego, demonstrating their coherent lightwave signal analyzers.
April 15, 2010
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Optametra Demonstrates New Analysis Capabilities Including 64 QAM for Beyond 100G Transmission
March 25, 2010
VERONA, Wis.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, has added new analysis capabilities to its line of software solutions. These include the ability to characterize signal distortions, fiber propagation impairments, and laser phase noise. Optametra has added laser-linewidth tolerant 16, 32, and 64 QAM demodulation formats, along with the ability to execute QAM easily in customer-defined subsets, and offset QPSK formats.
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Optametra to Exhibit at OFC/NFOEC
March 23-25, 2010
San Diego, California, USA
OFC/NFOEC is indisputably the world’s leading global conference for optical communications and networking professionals. Attend OFC/NFOEC and be part of the event that brings together the people, products, and information that drive optical communications and networking.
Optametra Joins Georgia Tech 100G Consortium
March 20, 2010
Verona, Wisconsin – (BUSINESS WIRE) Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, has joined the eleven member companies of the Georgia Tech 100G Consortium as a Supporting Member, providing its industry-leading OM4106B Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzer system. To date, more than $2.9 million in support has been designated for this facility by the consortium’s founding research members–ADVA Optical Networking, Ciena, OFS, and Verizon–and by other supporting members Centallax, Oclaro, Hitachi, IBM, Nistica, RSoft, and Picometrix.
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Optametra and LeCroy to Showcase Test Solution Capable of 224 Gb/s PM-QPSK at OFC/NFOEC Exposition
March 19, 2010
CHESTNUT RIDGE, NY – LeCroy Corporation, designer of the world’s fastest (30 GHz) real-time oscilloscope, and Optametra, a leading supplier of coherent lightwave signal analyzers, will showcase their combined test solution at the OFC/NFOEC Exposition, Booth 1406, San Diego from March 23 to 25. LeCroy’s WaveMaster 830Zi, a 30 GHz real-time oscilloscope, has already been used to measure 224 Gb/s capability using 56 Gb/s per tributary polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) signals. This is a significant step towards accelerating the availability of 200G transmission technology and beyond for ultra long haul Dense Waveform Division Multiplexing (DWDM) networks.
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Tektronix and Optametra Solve 100G Optical Measurement Challenges
March 16, 2010
BEAVERTON, Ore. – Tektronix, Inc., the world's leading manufacturer of oscilloscopes, today announced that the accurate, fast acquisition system of the Tektronix DPO72004B oscilloscope combined with OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers from Optametra deliver unprecedented ability to visualize and measure coherent polarization multiplexed quadrature phase shift keying (PM-QPSK) signals in realtime.
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Optametra, LLC Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers™ Now Available for 100G Physical Layer Test
September 19th, 2009
VERONA, Wisconsin—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Optametra announces the availability of its OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers with bit rates to 112 Gb/s (100G DP-QPSK). The higher data rate is also available as an upgrade to those who have already purchased the OM4105 and OM4106 40G analyzers, announced earlier this year at OFC/NFOEC 2009.
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Optametra, LLC Introduces Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers™ for 40/100G Physical Layer Test at OFC/NFOEC 2009
March 19th, 2009
VERONA, Wisconsin—(BUSINESS WIRE)—Optametra announces the first available solutions for testing real coherent transmission systems in real time. Optametra’s OM4105 and OM4106 Coherent Lightwave Signal Analyzers™ enable visualization and measurement of dual-polarized complex-modulated signals in fiber.
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Optametra wins IT Segment of WI Governors Business Plan Contest
June 9, 2008
Madison, Wis. — Fifty-four judges took part in a process that progressively narrowed a field of 250 entries to 51 semi-finalists, 23 finalists and four category winners in Advanced Manufacturing, Business Services, Information Technology and Life Sciences..
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