Network & Enterprise Test, Including the former Test-Um Product Line

JDSU Network and Enterprise Test tools are designed for the requirements of customers who install, manage and maintain premises, enterprise, and broadband access networks. These task-ready, or single-task, test instruments are easy-to-use and allow technicians to Know the Network.

These task-ready test tools from JDSU include the Test-Um line of enterprise network and home wiring test instruments, acquired by the company in April 2006, as well as those addressing the broadband access network test requirements of telecommunications and cable service providers.

There are six core essentials of wire and cable management: cable inventory management, cable & wire tracing, physical cable & wire testing, multi-function testing, active network testing and speed certification. Let’s take a closer look at three of these essentials.

Cable and wire tracing
You may be faced with tracing the cable to a specific jack or find it behind a wall. Different tone generators and probes are available for different cable scenarios. The Turbo-Tone™ tone generator, (MCM # 72-6962, JDSU/Test-Um # TG200), sends a strong tone that can even be used to identify cable behind drywall. Choose a tone tracer/probe to find the signal from the tone generator. The Resi-Tracer™, (MCM # 72-7890, JDSU/Test-Um # TT300), offers a coil sensor to help trace even terminated active coax. If you already have an analog probe in your tool kit, you can use it with any tone generator.

Multi-function testing
If you work on coax, network and telco cable, you will want to have a testing solution that gives you capabilities to test this wiring for voice, data and video. A proven product is the Tri-Porter™ premises wiring tester for VDV, (MCM # 72-8215, JDSU/Test-Um # IVT600). This product performs the work of six independent testing tools: a butt-in telephone test set, a network tester, a tone generator, a cable tester/verifier, a tone detector and a coax mapper. Since complex cabling scenarios in multi-dwelling units frequently have coax splitters, the Tri-Porter is ideal because it allows you to test through these splitters on powered-up systems. You can also perform port discovery-ISDN, POTS, Token Ring, Ethernet, among others. Higher-level capability in the product allows negotiation at 100 Mbit with DHCP or manual addressing, and will ping IP addresses. Not sure where the cable run goes? Use the Tri-Porter to do a hub flash to find the connected end at the hub in a structured cabling scenario.

Speed Certification
You may also need to test the speed and performance capabilities of cable runs. The Validator-NT™ Ethernet Speed Certifier, (MCM # 72-8190, JDSU/Test-Um # NT955), is a tool for Ethernet network installers who need complete physical layer testing, speed certification and reporting. It is also an essential tester for IT professionals who must troubleshoot an existing Ethernet network. The Validator-NT has all the testing and certifying capabilities of the basic Validator, (MCM # 72-7880, JDSU/Test-Um # NT950), but can also conduct active network tests that are designed to identify network devices such as hubs, switches, NICs, and routers on the network and verify connectivity (manual IP or via DHCP) to the Internet by pinging up to seven different IP addresses simultaneously. In addition, a set of eight wiremap remotes is also available as a part of this product group.