Industry leading provider of optics testing and validation

New standards for high-speed ethernet and optical transport require increasingly stringent testing. For over 14 years, telecom and data centers worldwide have utilized Approved Networks' state-of-the-art lab to ensure full compliance of our optics within their environment to both extend the value of their network and improve its performance. Testing is and always will be the cornerstone of Approved Networks' success.

Approved Networks tests its optics at every major point along the production line, from auditing contract manufacturing facilities, to advanced functional, platform and network testing upon arrival to Approved Networks' US laboratories located along the coast of Southern California.

Transceiver Performance Testing

Each module shipped from Approved Networks undergoes a rigorous testing process prior to programming, including:

 

 • Compliance Verification for Distance

 • Wavelength

 • Traffic Density

 • Light

 

Environmental Test Facility

After being programmed for complete compatibility, modules are then tested in their intended switch/platform. Virtually every manufacturer is represented in Approved Networks' production test bed in California.

Due to our long-standing Telecom relationships, Approved Networks uses Aeroflex/Shenick for our network emulation testing platform. Aeroflex/Shenick is a fully virtualized test and measurement solution that can emulate and measure millions of unique application flows. The test provides comprehensive measurement and performance analysis on each application flow, easily and accurately locating and isolating problematic flows. Performance analysis of the optic in both real world or customer specific application flows are the only true way to guarantee design integrity and complete optical compliance.

* In today's third party market, testing is quite often the most confusing aspect when selecting a third party vendor. Everyone says they have a 100% tested third party optic. But truth be told, very few, if any online vendors actually test their product. They simply don't have the resources to do it. They buy cheap, un-tested optics from overseas brokers and reship them without so much as taking inventory of the serial numbers they ship to you. These practices have negatively affected the IT industry for decades, and in turn play a big part in Approved Networks' educational process with its customers. Approved Networks is committed to transparency between its test capabilities and your particular needs. Please call your Approved Networks rep for any questions regarding its testing capabilities.