# 660 Network Testers

> Tender notice from UK public-sector procurement sources.

## Key facts

- Public buyer: [Aston University](/buyers/aston-university/contract-awards)
- Tender value: £120,000
- Published: 24 June 2022
- Planned start: 30 August 2022
- Planned end: 29 August 2027
- Stage: open_tender
- Procurement category: goods
- Notice ID: afec6001-d23a-47b9-a330-27369fbbdce1-549056
- OCID: ocds-b5fd17-0b3b8abe-d118-475f-9199-5ea1184fadbf

## Description

The project is involved in designing and implementing research in Optical Communications on the basis that correct equipment is purchased\. This involves purchasing Network Testers and associated test systems for operation above the threshold of 200Gbit or above to enable pre-FEC and post-FEC BER measurements of advanced 200 Gbit/s and 400 Gbit/s long haul DCO transponders such as\. • 200G/100G CFP4-ACO Analog Coherent Optical Transceiver • 100G/200G Tunable CFP2-DCO Coherent Transceiver, up to 1000km • CFP2-DCO 100/200/300/400G Flex Coherent Transceiver • 400G CFP2-DCO Digital Coherent Optics Transceiver • 400G Digital Coherent Optics QSFP-DD ZRplus • QSFP-DD-400G-DCO-ZR • Coherent QSFP56-DD 400G

## Related contract awards

- [Data and Analytics](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-0b6f9b28-bd83-4aa6-ac53-57caf2fd7bf8): ASTON UNIVERSITY
- [Adobe ETLA](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-ca43f035-22f9-4eb6-af4d-4ee8ca728d4b): ASTON UNIVERSITY
- [TextTool & ReadWrite](/contracts/ocds-b5fd17-db5509df-6391-4548-9087-a0ef18969b72): ASTON UNIVERSITY

## Source

[View the original notice on Contracts Finder](https://www.contractsfinder.service.gov.uk/Notice/afec6001-d23a-47b9-a330-27369fbbdce1-549056)