Instruments Contend with Exploding Data Bandwidth

Whether you need to transmit and receive data over a few millimeters of PCB trace or across an ocean, you can choose from a variety of instruments and software to test how well your data-communications link is working. To address applications ranging from I2C to 400 GbE and beyond, vendors are debuting new instruments, upgrading existing ones, and introducing software enhancements to handle challenging data-communications measurement tasks.