Tuesday, August 21, 2007

Fluke DTX-1800 cable analyser

The Fluke DTX-1800 Cable Analyzer provides a bandwidth 900 MHz that supports video distribution, Class F and 10 Gigabit Ethernet. Its transmissive LCD display with backlight makes for easy viewing. Its rotary knob makes learning easy and operation simple, keeping you in the know as to what test mode is selected. The USB port facilitates high-speed transfer of data.

This is tester that we've just bought to test the big 10-Gig ethernet project we're doing - see a previous post here.

Testing for ten gigs over copper isn't yet ratified so we use a slightly ad-hoc method;
10 Gig testing should be performed to ISO11801 ClassEA Channel (not permanent link) testing using PiMF 600 patch cables. Tyco recommend using a set of 2M patch leads for 500 tests and keeping them referenced to the tested ports.
On the DTX setup it will be ISO ClassEa Ch 25N1255. This is the latest draft standard for 10G cabling system performance. There is currently no permanent link standard to work to as the permanent link requires component performance parameters which have not been defined yet.

I'll post an example XML-export in the next couple of days.

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