Agilent Technologies has announced the expansion of its J-BERT N4903B high-performance serial BERT for 16x Fibre Channel transceiver testing. Design and test engineers in communications, storage and computing, and consumer industries can now accurately characterize and test interoperability of next-generation serial interfaces operating between 150 Mb/s and 14.2 Gb/s. Agilent will demonstrate the J-BERT and the new 14G option at ECOC 2009, Sept. ...

Agilent Technologies has announced the addition of five new integrated optical multichannel attenuators and power meters to its high-density 77xx-family. The instruments are designed for testing optical transceiver modules and their subcomponents and for optical network integration tests. Agilent will demonstrate this new class of high-density, faceless optical instruments at ECOC 2009 Vienna, Austria, booth 666, Sept. 21-23.

Agilent Technologies has announced it has added bit error ratio (BER) capabilities to its optical modulation analyzer. Agilent will demonstrate the new BER test feature on a polarization multiplexed signal at ECOC 2009 Vienna, Austria, booth 666, Sept. 21-23.

Agilent Technologies has announced the opening of its Digital Test Center at the company's headquarters. The center allows customers to learn about the technologies and challenges of digital test and conduct on-site testing of their devices to meet the digital interfacing standards of today and tomorrow.

Agilent and SerialTek today announced that Agilent has become the exclusive worldwide distribution channel for all SerialTek products. This expands Agilent's test solution portfolio for Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) and Serial ATA (SATA). The portfolio now includes SerialTek's line of BusXpert SAS/SATA protocol analyzers covering link speeds from 1.5 Gb/s to the new 6 Gb/s specifications.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced it will display its innovative line-up of ATE test systems, support and asset management at Autotestcon 2009. The show takes place Sept. 14-17 at the Disneyland Hotel Convention Center, in Anaheim, Calif. In addition to demonstrating test solutions in high-power signal generation, audio analysis, data conversion, signal processing and real-time temperature testing, Agilent will present six technical paper...

Agilent Technologies Inc. today announced the release of its IO Libraries Suite 15.5 software for using instruments from a test and measurement program. Enhancements include support for Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit and Microsoft Windows 7 (32-bit and 64-bit). The 15.5 update delivers cutting-edge OS flexibility for users of IO Libraries Suite in the environment of their choice. The Suite 15.5 release demonstrates Agilent's commitment to deliver...

Agilent has introduced a handheld network monitor that complements Agilent's proven drive test platform and significantly expedites wireless network verification. The tool enables test engineers to quickly determine whether a network is working, which base stations are transmitting, and the base-station configuration. It also allows users to take other operational measurements that do not require the laptop, phones and measurement receivers assoc...

Agilent has announced it will show its comprehensive set of 4G test solutions for LTE, WiMAX, WLAN, HSPA, femtocell and MIMO at 4G World, McCormick Place, Chicago, Ill., Sept. 16-17 in Room W-175B. The company will demonstrate a full complement of test solutions for R&D, design verification, manufacturing, protocol conformance and interoperability test, as well as network deployment and maintenance/service quality.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today expanded its commitment to open systems for chromatography data systems (CDS) by announcing a collaboration with Persistent Systems, a leader in software product development services, and by joining the DriverCentral.net instrument driver portal.

Agilent has announced that the China Academy of Telecommunication Research (CATR), a division of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology and a WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Laboratory (WFDCL), has successfully used Agilent's N6430A Series Mobile WiMAX Protocol Conformance Test system to complete the first test of Mobile WiMAX products in mainland China. The test was conducted in June.

Agilent has introduced the Medalist i3070 Series 5 in-circuit test (ICT) platform, marking 20 years since the company launched its award-winning 3070 and i3070 ICT systems. The Series 5 ICT system offers new analog measurement technology together with the industry's fastest 12 MHz hybrid pin card, giving electronic manufacturers 20 to 30 percent throughput improvement over the current i3070 at the same list prices. This enables contract manufactu...

Agilent Technologies has introduced a VME/VXS module that simultaneously provides wide input signal bandwidth and dynamic range. The SVM3500 is a quad-channel 12-bit digitizer allowing channel interleaving to provide sampling up to 2 GS/s. With more than 2 GHz analog bandwidth, the module is ideal for applications in radar, Electronic Warfare (EW) and Synthetic Instrumentation (SI).

Agilent Technologies has introduced 25-MHz and 100-MHz, high-voltage differential probes. The N2790A and N2791A high-voltage differential probes allow conventional earth-grounded Agilent oscilloscopes to be used for floating signal measurements of up to 1,400 V of differential voltage and 1,000 V of common-mode voltage. Thanks to its high bandwidth and excellent input-impedance characteristics, the probe can accurately measure up to 3.5 nsec of f...

Agilent Technologies has announced that Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory's Dolan DNA Learning Center (DNALC) has adopted the Agilent 2100 Bioanalyzer system to teach high school students and teachers how to analyze DNA. The Bioanalyzer uses miniaturized lab-on-a-chip technology to replace traditional slab gel electrophoresis techniques, greatly speeding up the process, improving consistency of results and reducing use of hazardous chemicals associat...

Agilent Technologies has announced that its Scanning Microwave Microscopy Mode (SMM Mode) for use with its 5420 and 5600 atomic force microscopes (AFM) has been named an R&D 100 Award winner. Recipients of these prestigious awards are selected by an independent judging panel and the editors of R&D Magazine in recognition of the 100 most technologically significant products introduced into the marketplace during the past year. Agilent SMM Mode is ...

Agilent Technologies Inc. and FuturePlus Systems Corp. today introduced a DDR3 1866 DIMM interposer test solution, which is comprised of the Agilent 16962A logic analyzer module and the FS2352 interposer for next-generation double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM buses. The new DDR3 1866 DIMM interposer probing solution is the ideal tool for designers performing DIMM validation, failure analysis, and bus functional-parametric validation in servers, supercom...

Agilent Technologies Inc. today reported revenues of $1.06 billion for the third fiscal quarter ended July 31, 2009, 27 percent below one year ago. Third quarter GAAP net loss was $19 million, or ($0.06) per diluted share. Last year's third quarter GAAP net income was $169 million, or $0.45 per share.

Agilent Technologies has introduced cdma200 perceptual evaluation of speech quality (PESQ) measurement functionality for its 8960 wireless communications test set. This capability helps wireless engineers enhance the end-user experience by providing an objective measurement of audio quality in digitally vocoded voice.

Agilent Technologies Inc. today introduced its new PCI Express(r) (PCIe) high-speed data acquisition card with on-board field programmable gate array (FPGA) for real-time data processing. This new platform provides higher sampling rates, faster measurement throughput and even more flexibility to OEMs and many test and measurement engineers, while maintaining precision and cost effectiveness.