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News Release from: Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering | Subject: AXS-200/620 ADSL2+ triple-play test set
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 28 September 2007
ADSL2+ test set assesses service quality
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering's AXS-200/620 ADSL2+ triple-play test set provides a combination of DSL and Ethernet features which allow for testing in any residential triple-play environment.
Exfo Electro-Optical Engineering has released the AXS-200/620 ADSL2+ triple-play test set for the installation and troubleshooting of ADSL1/2/2+ and 10/100Mbit/s Ethernet-based triple-play services The AXS-200/620 has been designed for assessing the quality-of-service (QoS) of IP-based voice (VoIP) and video (IPTV) services
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 14 Dec 2007 at 8.00am (UK)
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This solution provides a combination of DSL and Ethernet features which allow for testing in any residential triple-play environment.
The test module is housed inside the multi-service and multi-medium AXS-200 SharpTester platform, a modular handheld unit for the access network market that can easily be configured for copper/DSL/triple-play, Ethernet or optical testing applications using a common Windows-CE graphical user interface.
The AXS-200/620 incorporates an ADSL2+ golden modem for upstream and downstream service verification of the DSL link.
Similarly, it provides dual Ethernet interfaces for full WAN - LAN analysis of IP services, allowing IP-layer connectivity testing such as IP PING, FTP/HTTP downloading and traceroute measurements.
The AXS-200/620 also offers enhanced IPTV test capabilities including media delivery index (MDI), program clock reference jitter, stream-rate metrics, bandwidth utilisation and IP metrics on multiple MPEG-2 or MPEG-4 media streams.
In addition, critical VoIP metrics can be monitored to ensure quality IP-based voice services.
Finally, Exfo's ADSL2+ triple-play test set provides auto-test routines with pass/fail analysis for all test modes to quickly validate that the service falls within acceptable limits.
In the event that advanced troubleshooting is required, the AXS-200/620 supports a multi-layer histogram window that will visually indicate when errors are occurring and whether these errors are related to the physical layer/DSL layer, ATM layer or IP layer.
Etienne Gagnon, Exfo's Vice-President of Product Management and Marketing said "With consumer-based multimedia applications fueling the growth of triple-play access networks, the AXS-200/620, combined with AXS-200 SharpTester platform, will allow network service providers to efficiently meet their installation and troubleshooting test requirements".
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