Huge IXIA Ethernet test at N+I
In the never-ending battle between instrumentation companies to push the envelope of test capacity, IXIA seems to be setting the pole position for high-density, wire-speed 10Gbps Ethernet testing. In this impressive display of testing horsepower, Dean Lee leads us through the details of the firm’s 2.7 Trillion bit per second, 160 port 10 Gbps Ethernet test.
In this Networld+Interop trade show interview I visit with Ryan Woodings, founder and ‘Chief Geek’ at MetaGeek of Boise, Idaho. MetaGeek is an impressively bootstrapped wireless instrumentation startup founded by former Cypress Semiconductor employees in Boise Idaho. They have created a product line of innovative, impressive, low-cost, portable “micro spectrum analyzers” for use on the Wi-Fi and cellular ISM (Instrumentation, Scientific, and Medical) bands at 900MHz, 2.5 and 5GHz unlicensed Microwave spectrum.
We were in Las Vegas last week for the Interop Telecommunications and Software trade show. We’ll be posting a photo report and commentary, later in the week of May 26 as our content moves over from the old site. [click photos, left for full-screen detail image]
Steve visits with a Polycom product manager while being beamed via video conference from the show floor at the Mandalay Bay conference center, to New York City Tuesday morning April 29 2008.