28 Gbd Serial Ethernet HSN Testing Service

Testing for speeds including:  25 Gigabit Ethernet,  50 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 200 Gigabit Ethernet  and 400 Gigabit Ethernet

Year-round validation of your Higher Speed Ethernet (HSN) cable or device's Conformance, Interoperability and Performance in a neutral, confidential, 3rd Party setting.

Contribute to a test-bed of the latest HSN technologies and gain-access to that testbed for your Interoperability testing needs.

This offering spans 1 lane of NRZ at 25Gbps, 1 lane of PAM4 at 50Gbps,  and all speeds enabled up to 400Gbps (eg: QSFP-DD using 8 lanes of PAM4 encoding)

Testing Services Include:

• NICs, Switches, Transceivers, Routers, and other devices.
• SFP28, QSFP28, SFP-DD, SFP56, QSFP56, QSFP-DD, and other 28Gbd modules  
• 29 IEEE 802.3 Standard Ports types:
  • Clause 110: 25GBASE-CR, 25GBASE-CR-S
  • Clause 111: 25GBASE-KR, 25GBASE-KR-S 
  • Clause 112: 25GBASE-SR
  • Clause 114: 25GBASE-LR, 25GBASE-ER
  • Clause 121: 200GBASE-DR4
  • Clause 122: 200GBASE-FR4, 200GBASE-LR4, 200GBASE-ER4, 400GBASE-FR8, 400GBASE-LR8, and 400GBASE-ER8
  • Clause 123: 400GBASE-SR16
  • Clause 136: 50GBASE-CR, 100GBASE-CR2, 200GBASE-CR4 
  • Clause 137: 50GBASE-KR, 100GBASE-KR2, 200GBASE-KR4
  • Clause 138: 50GBASE-SR, 100GBASE-SR2, 200GBASE-SR4, 400GBASE-SR8
  • Clause 139: 50GBASE-FR, 50GBASE-LR, and 50GBASE-ER
  • Clause 150: 400GBASE-SR4.2
  • Note: Testing for some port types may be limited
• Interoperability testing 
  • Cable/Module and Host interop with DACs, AOCs, AECs, ACCs, and more!
  • AN/LT Interop,  
  • FEC Interop
• Conformance testing
  • MAC and Flow Control conformance testing enabled by supporting T&M Partners
  • PMD Conformance Testing for 25Gb/s NRZ and PAM4 Serial Electrical Speeds
  • { in development } RS, PCS, AN/LT, conformance testing 

Our Customers

Cable and module manufacturers, Silicon vendors, Switch and Network Adapter OEMs are all welcome to work with us; contribute to, and test with, our interoperability test bed; and request conformance testing. 

Our Services

3rd-party neutral and confidential interoperability and conformance reports are provided to our customers. Members may schedule conformance and interoperability testing and work with our testing experts and developers. Members will also have access to our test beds that include devices from many manufacturers, providing a high level of confidence prior to deployment.

Periodic interoperability reports will be automatically provided to all member companies for their contributed cables, modules, and networking equipment provided to our test bed.

Any issues encountered during testing can be addressed via VPN secured remote access to your equipment.

Webinar: Auto Negotiation (ANEG) and Link Training (LT) Testing