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News Release from: Wadsworth Electronics | Subject: Fluke DSP-4300
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2002
Digital cable analyser improves
reliability
Available now from Wadsworth Electronics, the Fluke DSP-4300 is a digital cable analyser for test and certification of Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6 and Fibre-optic cabling.
Available now from Wadsworth Electronics, the Fluke DSP-4300 is a digital cable analyser for test and certification of Cat 5, Cat 5e, Cat 6 and Fibre-optic cabling The DSP-4300 features enhanced Cat 6 channel adapters and a proprietary new permanent link interface adapter that reduces false failure rates and improves repeatability of results
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 15 May 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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The tester exceeds Level III accuracy requirements for measurements on Cat 5, Cat 5e and Cat 6 cables.
As the newest member of the advanced Fluke 4000 family of cable analysers, the DSP-4300 already supports permanent link testing according to the latest TIA/EIA-568-B proposal.
It is built on an extendable digital platform ensuring compliance with further new standards as they are approved.
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Onboard 16Mbyte memory stores up to 300 tests, sufficient for a full day's worth of testing.
A removable memory card is also included.
The DSP-4300's novel permanent link interface adapter (PLIA) eliminates false failures that frequently result from poor link interface adapters.
Adapter cords are known to be susceptible to wear and tear during use, contributing to return loss that can result in false failures.
These add unnecessary and expensive hours of troubleshooting and repeat testing.
The PLIA cost effectively eliminates this major source of false failures.
The standard DSP-4300 package also includes a Cat 6 channel adapter and a channel/traffic adapter, enabling Cat 6 channel limits to be tested with DSP accuracy.
Cabling faults are automatically diagnosed, giving the exact location in feet or meters.
The Cat 6/5e channel/traffic adapter supports traffic monitoring for basic network diagnosis and troubleshooting, a capability unique to the DSP-4300.
It also allows monitoring of network traffic for 10Base-T and 100Base-TX Ethernet, as well as detecting and measuring impulse noise.
In addition, the adapter helps to identify hub port connections and determines which standards are supported by those connections.
TIA-606A compliant cable IDs can also be downloaded to the DSP-4300, while advanced cable test management software packages allow test results to be quickly organised, edited, viewed, printed and saved.
Results can also be easily archived, for example by job site, customer or campus building and test results can be merged into an existing database and then sorted, searched and organised by any number of data fields or parameters.
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