The Digital Lightwave NIC Plus® Network Information Computer is the most compact and cost-effective diagnostic platform for next-generation communications networks on the market. The NIC Plus® provides a wide range of innovative test and measurement capabilities for both telecom and datacom applications.

With a flexible software/firmware-based architecture, the scalable NIC Plus combines in a single platform the multitude of traditional hardware-based test sets required to install, maintain, and monitor emerging networks. The NIC Plus is designed to grow as these networks grow, and as technologies evolve.

MSA 2020 (Multi-Service Analyzer) Module
The MSA 2020 is available with SONET/SDH testing from 51Mbps up to 155Mbps, 622Mbps, 2.5Gbps or 10Gbps. Ethernet testing options are available, which include 10/100/1000BaseT (dual ports), GigE (dual ports) and 10GigE LAN/WAN interfaces. Additional license-based Test Options available for the MSA 2020 include OTN testing at 2.6 and 10.7Gbps, Generic Framing Procedure (GFP), 10GigE WAN, 10GigE over OTN and ODU-1 to ODU-2 multiplexing with additional capabilities available soon. Test Options can be added at the time of initial purchase or at a future time with only a license key.

“With the MSA 2020 module, the NIC Platform takes another significant step into the future,” stated Tom Newhart, Director of Sales for the Americas. “This new module provides multiple capabilities in a single card with the flexibility to provide the features our customers need when they need them. When even more testing capabilities such as 40G and OSA are needed, the MSA 2020 can be combined with other NIC modules to provide a powerful combination in a single portable or rackmount instrument. The NIC is the industry’s best solution to obsolescence.”

The MSA 2020 is available in all NIC Platform products, including the compact and lightweight 2-slot portable chassis and 5-slot NIC Plus (portable) and NIC EP (rackmount). Combined with additional NIC modules including 40/43Gbps testing, OSA, PDH/T-Carrier and Jitter/Wander, the NIC can provide a custom all-in-one solution to testing today’s advanced optical networks.