29th May 2014 – Test equipment sourcing specialist Livingston has taken further steps to ensure that it has the market’s most expansive rental portfolio in order to respond fully the needs of its customer base. The company has just announced a supply chain agreement with leading oscilloscope manufacturer Teledyne Lecroy, which will make Livingston rental partner for its flagship high speed oscilloscope offering, as well as a broad selection of other key products.
Targeted specifically at cutting-edge telecom applications, such as 100G
Ethernet, Teledyne Lecroy’s LabMaster 10 Zi is a high performance multi-channel oscilloscope with dual pole coherent modulation. It is universally recognised as the highest speed real-time oscilloscope available, with a bandwidth that reaches 65GHz (4.9psec rise time) and a sampling rate of up to 160GSamples/s. Up to 1024Mpoints of analysis memory capacity can be integrated into it (depending on the model chosen). Each unit comes with a built-in 15.3-inch WXGA resolution widescreen colour display supporting touch screen control. Data can be passed from the oscilloscope to a connected PC at a blistering rate of 7. 325MBytes/sec using the unique serial interface bus that is featured.
It is possible via the LabMaster 10 Zi to carry out all manner of comprehensive analysis – examining modulation schemes, investigating high order harmonics and generally looking at better ways to transmit large quantities of data over next generation network infrastructure. Thanks to the innovative modular design it presents engineers with an extremely scalable solution, providing a simple upgrade path both in terms of the bandwidth supported and the total channel count. Each acquisition module has 4 channels which are capable of delivering 36GHz. Whereas other oscilloscope units when they are connected up together in an attempt to offer a larger number of channels are blighted by channel-to-channel skew issues arising, with this game-changing instrument it is possible to benefit from as many as 80 channels, since Teledyne Lecroy’s proprietary ChannelSync™ technology ensures exact synchronization of all channels (with <130fsrms jitter between them).
“The LabMaster 10 Zi represents a major breakthrough in contemporary oscilloscope functionality and sets new industry benchmarks. It is unlike anything else that is currently out there, pushing the performance envelope way beyond previous confines. It can be utilised in every phase of network development – from initial research right through to final implementation and even for on-going troubleshooting.” states Reinier Treur, Marketing Director of Livingston. “The cost of purchasing such a high value item of equipment may be outside the budget of a certain proportion of potential customers, however, so gaining access through alternative sourcing routes is critical. This new cooperation between Teledyne Lecroy and Livingston will bring a valuable extra dimension to the marketing of this product – allowing those who might otherwise not be able to afford to it to still profit from the exceptional attributes it possesses.” “All sorts of rental periods will be supported, from one week through to 3 years, to maximise flexibility,” he continues. “In addition very competitive rent-to-own packages will be offered. We see Teledyne Lecroy rapidly gaining market share in both the mid-range and high end oscilloscope categories. Therefore an increasing number of enquiries for its products will be expected.”
