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Multiple Application Platform

Still known by most as the JDSU MAP, the Viavi (formerly JDSU) Multiple Application Platform (also known by its nickname MAP-200) is an optical test and measurement platform optimized for cost-effective development and manufacturing of optical transmission network elements.  That is a mouthful.

Basically, today’s rapidly changing optical market requires investment in productivity-enhancing technologies and tools.   The ‘MAP’ is a scalable test platform and the right tool needed in even the most stringent environments.

Fiber Optic Center Viavi MAP

There is a fair amount of documentation out there to educate someone on the key benefits, applications and basic user product information. Some PDFs are on the Viavi website, some still cached on the JDSU pages and some on the technical partner sites like ours at Fiber Optic Center.

FOC thought it might be helpful to share some top tips that are not currently on the datasheets and documentation being googled. Our test and measurement experts explain, highlight and answer questions to these top points:

  • Do your production workers only have two hands?
    FOC can help - The Viavi (JDSU) Passive Component tester can input product serial numbers with a USB bar code reader and initiate measurement with the tap of an USB foot pedal.
  • Automated Length Measurement
    With no speed penalty, the PCT measures fiber length during IL/RL jumper measurements, but this facility can also be useful to see remaining length on a fiber reel.
  • Fast - The Passive Components Tester can measure the total insertion loss, fiber length and individual return loss at each end for a 12 fiber cable in less than 15 seconds.
  • Ultra Stable
    Launch power, RL backscatter and temperature monitoring enable compensation to ensure accurate and repeatable measurement, simply the best there is!
  • Port Mapping, with MPO and similar multi-port connectors using loose tube construction is becoming more common, assembly errors seem likely to increase. (I have built 5 MTP jumper and got 20% of them wrong). The Viavi (JDSU) Passive Component tester can map input to output port routing on a 48 channel connector in 2 seconds.
  • Very small footprint: A 4 wavelength, 12 channel Bi-Directional system takes up less than a foot width of bench space. A 12 channel Bi-Directional system with both SM and MM is less than 20 inches wide (19 inch rack sized)

Many of these come from the field. FOC has a staff of experienced production people who set up and install all of the equipment on site, provide and demonstrate a working termination process with high first pass yields, and optimized equipment layout. Often this on-site work is done at no cost to the customer, and follow-up support is available by email and phone, and sometimes in person.

Based on the previous-generation Multiple Application Platform (MAP), the MAP-200 builds on the differentiation of offering the broadest portfolio of modules in the densest and most configurable platform.

The MAP-200 is optimized for test applications in lab and manufacturing environments ranging from insertion loss testing to dispersion penalty testing.

Have specific questions about the MAP?  Send your technical questions to AskFOC@focenter.com and our test experts will respond ASAP.

About the Author
Kathleen Skelton Kathleen Skelton is FOC Director of Strategic Marketing and her expertise resides in business development, online strategy, market planning, digital best practices, SOP development, and content management. A graduate of Curry College, she holds degrees in Communications and Education, English and Psychology. Kathleen resides outside of Boston, MA with her family. Follow @KATHLEENSKELTON
About Fiber Optic Center, Inc.
Fiber Optic Center, Inc., (FOC), is an international leader in distributing fiber optic components, equipment and supplies and has been helping customers make the best cable assemblies in the world for over two decades. Several areas of specialization and expertise, in which they are the industry leader, make them the preferred choice for many of the world’s fiber professionals. In these key technology areas, FOC is "at least as technical as the manufacturer" about the products they sell. Striving to "make the business part easy," they offer outstanding and personal customer service, low or no minimum purchase order values, and from-stock delivery on industry-leading products and technology. FOC is the industry connection to the most innovative optical products, technologies and technical experts who integrate their manufacturing knowledge and vast experience into customers' worldwide operations. @FiberOpticCntr

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