New: The Ideal Carrier-Grade Ethernet Tester For Saving Valuable Engineer Time on Site.

June 25, 2013 - PRLog -- New from IDEAL INDUSTRIES NETWORKS is the UniPRO MGig1 carrier-grade handheld Ethernet tester including the latest Y.1564 NetSAM multiple concurrent service test capability.

Designed for all engineers and subcontractors involved in carrier and metro Ethernet service turn-up, mobile Ethernet backhaul, microwave and wireless-link Ethernet setup. It’s also ideal for enterprise users who want to check up on supplier SLA (service level agreement) performance.

With its comprehensive NetSAM Y.1564 multiple concurrent service stream testing capability it is also ideal for setup testing and troubleshooting in a wide range of other applications including on-train/metro command, control and communications, trackside communications and signalling, electricity, gas and water distribution, petrochemical plants and rigs plus many other industrial Ethernet applications.

Launching the new rugged tester, which boasts IPv6 as well as IPv4 and the latest Y.1564 test program, Xing Ye, carrier-Ethernet product manager with IDEAL INDUSTRIES NETWORKS, said “most testers simply limit themselves to the prescribed tests, but by doing that they don’t help the field engineer to overcome the many hours of wasted and unproductive time on site sorting out network configuration and mis-patching issues.

“However, we have designed UniPRO MGig1 to be the engineer’s friend, adding in a suite of functions that go beyond the prescribed test and which can significantly speed up the traditional ‘trial and error’ troubleshooting of these pre-testing problems, meaning UniPRO MGig1 can save hours on site.”

For many years, technicians and engineers have had to use the rather long winded RFC 2544 for service turn-up and acceptance testing. However, RFC 2544 was devised for the lab-testing of isolated pieces of network equipment and can only test one parameter at a time, so it takes a long time and is not representative of today’s multi service-stream networks with often multiple VLANs and multiple QoS (Quality of Service) requirements all competing for limited bandwidth.

Ye continued, “the ITU Y.1564 test regime - implemented in the NetSAM software on UniPRO MGig1 - enables testing of up to eight services concurrently including colour-aware and non-colour-aware networks with Q-in-Q; VLANs nested up to eight-deep; and three levels of Label, Class, and TLL on MPLS networks.

“Layer 3 QoS tags, ToS and DSCP are also encompassed. It brings Ethernet testing forward by leaps and bounds into the 21st century and finally makes it representative of real network requirements and SLA’s.”

UniPRO MGig1 is available in copper-only or copper plus fibre formats and can perform

single ended testing, pass through testing and long distance loopback testing (in combination with its low cost companion the UniPRO SEL1 remote control active loop-back unit or a second UniPRO MGig1). For Bi-Directional testing two UniPRO MGig1s are used but the far end unit can be remote controlled removing the need for a second engineer.

UniPRO MGig1’s ‘Autotest’ button can be programmed to run a sequence of tests without further user intervention saving even more engineer time, by allowing the engineer to conduct other work without having to babysit the tester.

UniPRO MGig1 and its SEL1 companion will test copper Ethernet at 10Mb/s, 100MBb/s and 1Gb/s with the fibre enabled models also testing Gigabit Ethernet over a choice of 850nm multimode, 1310nm or 1550nm single mode fibres using interchangeable SFP modules.

The UniPRO MGig1 price starts from £1200.68, and UniPRO SEL1 is £632.61 (excl. local taxes). The UniPRO MGig1/SEL1 series of test instruments are available through a comprehensive distributor network. To read the full product brochure and find distributors visit:

http://www.idealindustries.co.uk/product/107/533/67960/.html

The UniPRO MGig1/SEL1 test capabilities include:

• Y.1564 NetSAM

• RFC 2544

• BERT (bit error ratio test)

• SLA-Tick single stream and multi service streams

• Separated target and service tests

• Top-ten bandwidth users

• Simultaneous IPv4 and IPv6

• PoE and PoE+ voltage and power check

• Hub-blink cable trace

• Copper cable check

• Optical receiver power

• Detect and warn on circuits with ISDN, PBX and unexpected voltages

• Additional network stress-test traffic generation on dual-port models

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