56 Gbd Serial Ethernet HSN Testing Service

Testing for speeds including: 50 Gigabit Ethernet, 100 Gigabit Ethernet, 200 Gigabit Ethernet, 400 Gigabit Ethernet and 800 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 PAM4 at 100Gbps, and all lane/speeds enabled, up to 800 Gbps (QSFP112-DD using 8 lanes of PAM4 encoding)

Testing Services Include:

• NICs, Switches, Transceivers, Routers, and other devices.
• SFP112, QSFP112, SFP-DD112, OSFP, OSFP-XD, and other 56Gbd modules (note: 112Gbps = 56Gbd x2 (PAM4) )   
• 25 IEEE Standard Ports types (more in draft):
  • Clause 124: 400GBASE-DR4, (802.3df-2024){ 400GBASE-DR4-2, 800GBASE-DR8, and 800GBASE-DR8-2 }
  • Clause 140: 100GBASE-DR, 100GBASE-FR1, and the 100GBASE-LR1
  • Clause 151: 400GBASE-FR4 and 400GBASE-LR4-6 
  • Clause 162 : (802.3ck-2022){ 100GBASE-CR1, 200GBASE-CR2, 400GBASE-CR4 }, (802.3cf-2024){ 800GBASE-CR8 }
  • Clause 163: (802.3ck-2022){ 100GBASE-KR1, 200GBASE-KR2, 400GBASE-KR4 }, (802.3df-2024){ 800GBASE-KR8 }
  • Clause 167 (802.3db-2022): 100GBASE-VR1, 200GBASE-VR2, 400GBASE-VR4, 100GBASE-SR1, 200GBASE-SR2, & 400GBASE-SR4 }, (802.3df-2024){800GBASE-VR8, 800GBASE-SR8 }
  • Note: Testing for some port types may be limited
• Interoperability testing 
  • Cable/Module and Host interoperability with DACs, AOCs, AECs, ACCs, LPOs, and more!
  • AN/LT Interoperability,  
  • FEC Interoperability
• Conformance testing
  • MAC and Flow Control conformance testing enabled by supporting T&M Partners
  • { in development } RS, PCS, AN/LT conformance testing 
  • Contact us to discuss testing for 56Gbd PAM4 Serial Electrical Speeds

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.