Award-winning Solutions

2026 Lightwave Innovation Award

“A well-designed, useful product that supports both 112G and 224G interfaces up to 1.6 Tbps.”

“Teledyne LeCroy’s Z1608 Edun enables cable, transceiver, chip and switch manufacturers and data center operators to accelerate product development and validation of terabit Ethernet technologies. This allows users to validate performance across a wide range of Ethernet speeds (from 100GE to 1.6TE). This capability is crucial for meeting the growing bandwidth demands in AI, HPC, and cloud infrastructure. Supporting testing of both 112G and 224G PAM4 SerDes, it can also test optical transceivers and active and passive cables. Z1608 Edun can provide time-to-market for terabit-capable components like transceivers, cables, chips, switches, and NICs. The Z1608 is a quiet, compact tester, suitable for use on the desktop – a form factor important for lab-based development and QA environments. Requiring no new licenses to test Terabit Ethernet and making it easy for customers to integrate the new Z1608 Edun with their legacy Xena solutions – including automation and scripting features of Xena OpenAutomation (XOA), thereby reducing the overall cost of ownership.”

Learn more about Z1608 Edun.

2025 Lightwave Innovation Award

The Xena Ethernet Test Platform earned a Lightwave Innovation +BTR score of 4.0 at OFC2025. The Xena Ethernet Test Platform lets developers use the full resources of both Xena Ethernet traffic generators & E100 network emulator (via XOA) and SierraNet M1288 Protocol Analyzer via the Link Expert SW.

“Leveraging Teledyne LeCroy’s LinkExpert software, the Xena Ethernet Test Platform (XETP) lets developers of 112G SerDes PAM4 devices and services delve deep into the complexities of optimizing traffic at speeds up to 800 Gbps. Leveraging the unique “built-in” PHY of the Z800 Freya traffic generators, developers can quickly perform a range of tests faster and with greater control than the 2-3 other comparable solutions on the market, which all rely on 3rd party PHYs.”

To learn more, visit the main Xena product page.

2023 Lightwave Innovation Award #1

Xena’s Freya 800G Ethernet traffic generator received a 4.0 score from Lightwave Innovation in the category of Lab/Production Test Equipment in 2023.

Xena’s Freya Traffic Generator is one of the first to support 800Gbps Ethernet testing over 56G & 112G SerDes. A unique feature of the product is the proprietary implementation and control over all Physical (PHY) sublayers inside the FPGA rather than using a 3rd party PHY with a fixed feature set. This new implementation is called the “Xena PHY”.

The benefits of this unique feature are fast, flexible and highly granular access for testing specific features as well as the flexibility to add new features as standards and use cases evolve.

To learn more, visit the main Freya product page.