Lecroy is the last of the three major high-per-formance-digital-scope manufacturers to introduce a real-time-sampling scope with a bandwidth greater than 10 GHz. However, LeCroy's announced bandwidth is somewhat less than the values its competitors, Agilent (www. agilent.com) and Tektronix (www.tektronix.com), have been trumpeting: 13 and 15 GHz, respectively. Nevertheless, LeCroy's director of product management, Mike Lauterbach, PhD, offers a persuasive story about why LeCroy's target audience―in this case, engineers working with high-bit-rate data streams―should look into his company's new products. He also addresses why a bandwidth of 11 GHz can often be more useful than a bandwidth more than one-third greater.
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