You ll find the answer at the end of the column. Goodies on the show floor Each year I like to wander the exhibit hall aisles and look for interesting new technology or products. The unique thing about the multicarrier generator is its unusually small size-just eight inches high. Both companies exhibited newly designed subscriber taps that have provisions for reverse equalization. Think of it as a way to have stepped attenuators built into the tap port.
Old habits are so hard to change.
Installation time is faster, and the sleeve can be temporarily removed, if necessary, for tough jobs. It s one of those things that makes you wonder why they didn t think of doing this before. As I wandered, I saw a piece of test equipment with a classic phase noise measurement display. Typical measurement speed is but a few seconds, making it possible to perform near-instantaneous adjustments on equipment or devices being tested. It should be in production by the time you read this.