New Ridge Technologies (NRT) develops and manufactures the most advanced Polarization Mode Dispersion (PMD) sources and PMD-stress evaluation tools on the market today. Their products were developed during years of testing, evaluating, qualifying and quantifying PMD tolerance of transmitters and receivers, at 10 and 40 G/s, for the world's premiere carriers and optical system vendors. NRT’s products uniquely enable our customers to quantitatively predict the PMD outage probability of optical transport systems due for any level of PMD in the network.

NRT’s flagship products are the 10G and 40G PMD Sources (PMDS), the NRT-10033A and the NRT-40133. As opposed to PMD Emulators that try to 'emulate' the PMD statistics and behavior of a fiber, NRT’s PMDSs remove the statistics and PMD variation from PMD measurement. Their PMDSs generate first-order PMD, second-order PMD, and higher orders, and can hold these states for hours and days. This enables long term BER testing and determination of the power penalty induced by PMD stress.

The value of their product suite is that it enables efficient quantitative and reproducible PMD tolerance testing. The data acquired from PMDS tolerance testing can be used to determine network and span design.

• Quantitative PMD performance comparison between different components, Tx/Rxs, sub-systems & systems
• Total Outage Probability (minutes/year) for a span due to PMD
• Reallocation of system margin to improve network performance
• Estimate relative benefit of lighting up different fiber paths

New Ridge Hardware Solutions

New Ridge Software & Evaluation Solutions

For additional technical information about New Ridge Technologies' products, please visit the Product Specs and Technical Library on the New Ridge website.

For further information and a quote, please contact Chris by email or on US cell: 978 930 1492.