Cable tester certified for up to 750 MHz
September 2002
Enclosures, Cabling & Connectors
Ideal Industries, one of the world's largest manufacturers and suppliers of quality tools, connectors, and testing products for the electrical and data communications markets, is now offering the Lantek 7, the world's first cable tester fully compliant with the emerging Category 7/ISO F standards. Ideal Industries says that this is the industry's only tester capable of certifying up to 750 MHz. The company also announced the introduction of the Lantek 6, a fully compliant Category 6/ISO E cable tester with a frequency range up to 350 MHz. The company says that both new testers offer the industry's most advanced fibre options.
During the past year, Ideal invested significant resources to engineer and bring to market two new testers to complement the company's extensive line of testing and certification products and tools. The Lantek 6 and Lantek 7 testers are designed to speed network installation and troubleshooting, also offering greater accuracy in both fibre and copper environments.
To complement the two Lantek testers, Ideal will introduce a variety of fibre accessories. These include signal loss, length, and delay measurement kits for both singlemode (SM) and multimode (MM) fibre, talkset that allows the ability to talk over fibre, and an advanced troubleshooting option that will trace fibre runs and report magnitude and distance to events. Ideal's new fibre accessories also allow installers to generate and store detailed reports.
Both new testers share several industry-leading enhancements, including:
* High definition 1/4 VGA colour display for easy interpretation of results.
* Full function PCMCIA slot for compact flash storage allows virtually unlimited test storage and future optional enhancements - in addition to the internal memory that stores up to 6 000 tests.
* USB port allows tests to be quickly and directly uploaded to the PC.
* Advanced user interface, including context sensitive help, for improved productivity.
* Lantek Reporter PC software supports graphs for report customisation.
* Remote unit can initiate auto tests for improved productivity in one-person operations.
* Remote unit has two-line black and white display supplying test progress and results.
Another innovation included in both testers is a unique link adapter scheme, which offers numerous benefits to the user. Because there are no bulky adapters extending from the unit, it is user-friendly and compact. All the adapters fit securely inside the case. This distinguishing feature also significantly reduces the unit's lifetime cost of ownership because users can replace patch cords, should they ever wear out, rather than the entire link assembly.
Spescom MeasureGraph's Network Systems is the southern African distributor of Ideal products.
Hilton Preston, Spescom MeasureGraph's Network Systems
011 266 1753
[email protected]
www.spescom.com
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