• Industry’s most powerful trace capture: 100% capture at any line rate up to the maximum data rate of 8.5 Gb/s backed by the largest trace buffer in the industry (2 GB per SFP port).
• Finisar’s unbeaten and extensive experience with the Fibre Channel protocol makes the Xgig 8.5 FC Analyzer the industry standard. Finisar is committed to supporting updates to the Fibre Channel standard promptly and accurately. For example, the new scrambling feature and revised definition for ARB(FF) have been implemented according the most recent version of the standard.
• Finisar is the first company to deliver both 8.5 Gb/s FC BERT and Analyzer functionality on the same hardware platform, enabling early developers to complete a first-step test bench for 8G FC devices. In addition, the upcoming Load Tester, Jammer, and Generator releases will be based upon the same hardware blade. Xgig’s multifunction configuration significantly reduces capital equipment expenses while providing dramatic flexibility to users.
• Being a manufacturer of SFP, Finisar guarantees the availability of 8.5 Gb/s transceivers for early adopters.
• Xgig Expert has been updated to debug 8.5 Gb/s FC traces, providing the most powerful troubleshooting tools for the new protocol.

• Industry’s most powerful trace capture: 100% capturing at any line rate up to the maximum data rate of 8.5 Gb/s backed by the largest trace buffer in the industry with 2 GB per SFP port.
• Backwards Compatibility: the new 8.5 Gb/s FC mutlifunction blade has the same form factor as the previous 4.25 Gb/s FC blade and captures/analyzes 1.065, 2.125, and 4.25 Gb/s FC traffic as well.
• Scrambling: Support for scrambling in hardware for 1.065, 2.125, 4.25 and 8.5 Gb/s data rates. To simplify comparisons, scrambling can be easily turned on or off with a single click.
• SFP Support: Available in 2- and 4- SFP port blades, the 8G FC blade is also SFP+ plug-in ready. SPF+ is the MSA form factor for 8.5 Gb/s FC transceivers.
• Multiple Data Tapping Methods: Two data tapping methods provide options of nominal signal quality impact and data stream clean-up.
• Multi-functional: Each blade can be served as a protocol analyzer, Jammer, BERT, and other traffic generation products through simple software configuration, without changing hardware.
• Cascadable: Multiple Xgig systems can be cascaded together to group up to 64 time-synchronized ports for comprehensive system analysis and testing.

Performance Monitor

• Internal and external cross triggering
• Arm-sharing across all ports in a link
• Powerful trace filtering and searching
• Maximum number of time-synchronized channels
• Industry’s highest time stamp resolution
• Tx/Rx optical power reading
• Support for the most recent updates on the 8G FC standard from theT10 committee, such as ARB(ff ) decode and Expert supports.