On 12/16/2019 10:01 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote:
On 12/16/19 6:26 PM, Adam Moffett wrote:
The one I can print out a report from and hand to the customer's IT
guy and say, "See? This connections works perfectly. Check your own
stuff."
Both a certifier and a qualifier can do that, but one is far more
expensive than the other and the level of detail differs. I have a
Fluke CableIQ qualifier that I use on a regular basis. Every time I
get a complaint about a cable I test it and give them a PDF report. If
it fails I'll fix it, if it passes I still give them the option to
rerun the cable but they pay for the work.
To be honest I'm not clear on the difference between the terms
"certifier" and a "qualifier". What led me down this rabbit hole is a
customer with a stringent jitter requirement. I have to test that on
the Ethernet layer, so I'm not looking for something to test a cable but
an Ethernet path. The IDEAL UniPro MGig1 Pro should do what I need.
You pop an SFP module into each unit and put them on either end of the
Ethernet path. You configure one as a "slave" which then listens for
messages from the "master" which drives the configuration of the test.
All the MGig's do RFC2544, but the "Pro" also does ITU Y.1564. It's
looking like ~$6500 for the pair of MGig's, and that's not crazy. The
problem is life doesn't end with gigabit Ethernet, and I'm looking for
something similar to the IDEAL MGig that does 10Gbps. My first hit was
EXFO at $20,000.
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