Testing communications transmission links

The performance of all networks, however sophisticated, is ultimately dependent on the quality and reliability of the underlying communications links. Deregulation of the telecoms industry and ongoing technological change have increased the need for effective transmission and compatibility/conformance testing.

The Phoenix range meets the industry's need for installation, set-up and maintenance testing - of established technologies such as ISDN and SDH/PDH - and newer technologies such as ADSL2+, NGN and EoS - and new applications such as Voice-over-IP and IPTV. Follow the links on the left for an overview and the product name links within the page for more detailed information on our major products.

       Hand-held field testers up to 10GigE

Phoenix sell and support hand-held testers for a wide range of technologies and speeds - from 50bps to 10Gbps!

10/100/GigE Ethernet & Fibre Channel

The SunSet MTT has become a de-facto standard with many carriers for link testing and RFC2544 throughput testing of end-to-end links. The -28, -29, -30 and -50 (Dash 28, 29, 30 and 50) modules test 10/100 and Gigabit Metropolitan Ethernet links and Fibre Channel Storage Area Network (SAN) links. MTT stands for Modular Test Toolkit and the MTT is highly versatile with plug-in interfaces for a wide variety of network topologies. For example, an engineer may use the same MTT for both OTDR optical testing and higher layer ethernet testing on the same call out. >>more

10/100 and GigE Metro ethernet

SunLite GigE combines 10/100 and GigE testing in a lightweight rugged unit that fits in the palm of a hand, runs cool without a fan, and has a long battery life. SunLite GigE can run RFC2544 tests and verify end-to-end transport of differentiated Ethernet and triple-play services, transmitting and analyzing eight independent streams. Easy definition and sharing of test profiles and an excellent user interface makes the SunLite GigE equally suitable for both skilled engineers and less experienced technicians, particularly those with limited exposure to Ethernet and IP testing. >>more

10/100/GigE and 10GigE ethernet links

SunSet XTT-5000 delivers the industry's most compact and powerful 10 Gigabit Ethernet multifunction tester for the installation and maintenance of carrier-grade Ethernet and lP services. The XTT-5000 can perform simultaneous and independent tests at full line rate over its three test ports for 10/100M, Gigabit and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, featuring advanced traffic generation up to Layer 4 including stacked VLAN (Q-in-Q) and MPLS. The unit weighs just 2.5Kg, measures just 24cm by 18cm by 6cm, and field replaceable battery packs provide an unbeatable 2 hours operational testing of one 10GigE and two GigE ports simultaneously. >>more

SDH

The SunSet SDH and 10G offer 2.048 Mbps right up to 10G testing, along with all the service verification tools you need: ATM, GSM voice and TRAU, A-bis, GPRS over A-bis,V5.1/V5.2,and SS7. Also included are 1.544 Mbps service verification protocols such as GR-303 and SS7. >>more

The -38 (Dash 38) module for SunSet MTT is also available for SDH testing up to STM4. >>more

xDSL (ADSL, ADSL2+, HDSL, VDSL etc)

The SunSet MTT is the world's first field xDSL test instruments with plug-in DSL modems and independent Power Spectral Density measurements. Variants of the MTT are suitable for line pre-qualification, installation testing and higher level troubleshooting. MTT modules are available for ADSL, SDSL, HDSL, SHDSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+ and VDSL. >>more

2Mbps E1 and ISDN

The SunSet E20C is an extremely versatile test set - a single unit handling a wide range of linespeeds, protocols and physical interfaces from 50 bps to 2.048 Mbps, including transmission/BERT, SS7, CAS, ISDN, Datacom. >>more

The SunLite E1 is the world's smallest full-featured handheld 2.048 Mbps transmission test set. >>more

2Mbps E1 BERT testing is also provided by the -27 (Dash 27) modules for the modular SunSet MTT. >>more

The Aethra D2500 is a versatile basic and primary rate ISDN tester capable of fulfilling needs in service turnup and maintenance, testing both lines and equipment. Used either stand-alone or with a PC and the Windows-based software, the D2500 provides error-rate analysis and rapid verification of the status of basic and primary channels. The D2500 also provides powerful D-channel signaling and protocol analysis capable of decoding EURO ISDN, DASS2, DPNSS QSIG, 1TR6 and X.25 over ISDN. >>more

Fibre Optic

The Phoenix Datacom optical test range includes mini-OTDR's, fibre break locators, power meters and other test equipment. >>more

A micro-OTDR plug in module -35 (Dash 35) and optical tool testkit are also available for the modular SunSet MTT. >>more

CATV

The well-established Sunrise Broadband (incorporating Avantron, Calan and Hukk) range of cable modem testers and spectrum analysers for CATV covers every aspect of installing and maintaining CATV broadband and cable modem networks. (Sunrise Broadband was formed from Avantron, Calan and Hukk some years ago) >>more

High Performance Transmission Test Sets up to 40G

Ethernet

Sunrise Telecom's STT(Scaleable Test Toolkit) has been adopted by many carriers as their standard transmission tester for Gigabit and 10Gig Ethernet backbones. The STT Metro Module is packed with features for the installation, maintenance, and verification of packet-based metropolitan and transport networks. By combining thorough, accurate statistics with versatile traffic generation options on multiple ports, the STT Metro is ideal for turning up and troubleshooting complex, multi-layered voice, video, and data services. >>more

NGN SDH

Sunrise Telecom's STT(Scaleable Test Toolkit) has also been adopted by many carriers as their standard transmission tester for 21st Century Networks(21CN) based on NGN SDH. >>more

The STT Optical Network Expert (ONE) Module is a powerful and versatile test module for the STT for testing emerging technologies such as OTN (ITU-T G.709) and next-generation SDH/SONET, as well as traditional SDH/SONET, offering service providers a complete solution for today's metro and core networks. By integrating OTN and EoS (VCAT, GFP, and LCAS) testing into a single, compact unit, the STT ONE module is extremely cost effective because it eliminates the need for multiple instruments. >>more

The STT 40G Module provides a flexible test and measurement solution for high speed transport networks such as 40G SDH/SONET (STM-256/OC-768) and 43G OTN (OTU3). With payload structure down to VC12, VC11, VT1.5, and VT2. >>more

Optical

The Phoenix Datacom optical test range provides a wide range of optical test equipment, including OTDR, CD and PMD measurement, and DWDM and CWDM OSA analysis. >>more

The range includes STT DWDM and Fibre Analysis Modules from Sunrise Telecom   >>more  
and very high resolution OTDR from Sunrise Luciol. >>more

Data, signalling and QoS Analysers

Triple Play protocol analysers for Data, VOIP and IPTV

The Agilent Network Analyzer family provides expert protocol analysis from physical to application layer of the stack with an extensive range of physical interfaces for LAN, WAN, ATM and VoIP. >>more

Part of the family, the Agilent Triple Play Analyzer (TPA) provides the most complete monitoring and troubleshooting tool for installing and and troubleshooting IPTV, VoD, VoIP and data applications. In particular, a single instrument provides integrated analysis of the total traffic - voice, data and video - and their interaction together. (This is an important breakthrough as many test tools look at a single aspect of Triple Play, eg video or VoIP quality, without considering the effect of one application on another.) >>more

Telephony and signaling analysers

Accanto's NeTracker is particularly strong for telephony applications and offers an integrated tool to fully verify, monitor, and troubleshoot the signaling and services deployed over PCM, ATM, and LAN networks. The supported architectures include: IMS, NGN, MEGACO/MGCP and mixed (SS7/NGN/IP). NeTracker is also used by service providers and operators during the network planning, and implementation phases thanks to the Call Detail Record generation, intrusive and non-intrusive QoS measurements, network statistics and correlation of messages between different protocols and interfaces. >>more

The Agilent Signaling Analyzer is used by major 3G mobile telephone operators and phone manufacturers - providing installation testing and troubleshooting of 3G systems including traffic analysis and call trace of multi media message services. >>more

The Agilent Voice Quality Tester provides objective testing of voice to PAMS, PSQM and PESQM standards. Agilent VQT is available in a variety of form factors to meet the needs of installation and maintenance testing, troubleshooting in the field, and in-service quality monitoring. >>more

Traffic Generators

Multi-layer realistic traffic generation

Xena Networks offer extremely high density and lowest power consumption per test port, helping developers and providers of ethernet products and services face the challenge of GigE, 10G, 40G and 100G ethernet. Two chassis product series are available supporting a complete suite of copper and optical Gigabit Ethernet and 10-Gigabit Ethernet modules. The 10-GigE interfaces include optical XFP, SFP+, and copper CX4. The GigE interfaces include copper 10/100/1000M Ethernet and optical 100/1000M Ethernet. >>more

BreakingPoint Systems range provides very high performance layer 2 to layer 7 testing of content-aware devices and services. A particular strength of the range is the ability to generate a blended mix of good and bad traffic with simultaneous security attacks. More than 60 application protocols, 3,600 live security attacks and 80 evasion techniques are included as standard with weekly updates. BreakingPoint Syatems are ideally suited to testing the performance and functionality of security devices and other content-aware devices under realistic and worst case attack scenarios. The BreakingPoint architecture also provides the accurate high performance needed for 10Gig testing at the application layer - a single appliance having the ability to generate and maintain up to 15 million simultaneous TCP sessions, 1.5 million new TCP sessions per second, 20 gigabits per second of Layer 4-7 traffic and 80 Gigabits per second of Layer 2-3 traffic. >>more

Network Simulators

IP Network simulators

Packetstorm Network Emulator systems provide a "network in a box" which can be used stand-alone or in-circuit with a real network to allow consistent and worst-case testing of networked applications. The Packetstorm system simulates a complete packet-based network with multiple elements in the traffic path (LAN, Router, modem, WAN link etc), each of which can be set with specific parameters for impairments, modifiers and traffic conditioning. Advanced features include:- emulation of Routing & Bridging, Diff Serv with traffic conditioning, ToS emulation, IP monitoring, packet counters and timers, Tcl scripting language, network capture & replay, packet modifiers, multiple LAN, WAN nd ATM network interfaces, network queues, and remote control. >>more

Link simulators

The Vocality Simulator is a high performance simulator of synchronous satellite or leased line links, with complete control of delay, data rates, error conditions and test facilities. The Vocality Simulator works at the bitstream level, allowing realistic and worst-case testing of applications and transmissions over a wide range of simulated communications links. >>more

Arca WAN link simulators allow cost-effective testing of networked applications across topologies such as ISDN and Frame Relay, the simulator providing all the interfaces and behaviours of the relevant network without the cost of using real networks. >>more

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