User's Manual

Chapter 1 Introduction
Features and capabilities
T-BERD/MTS 5800 Getting Started Manual
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Features and capabilities
Features and capabilities of the T-BERD ⁄ MTS 5800 include
the following (assuming your instrument is optioned and
configured to support the features):
– Electrical interface support — Ability to test circuits from a
variety of electrical interfaces (DS1, E1 BNC, E1 RJ-48,
E3, DS3, STS-1, E4, and STM-1e).
– SONET/SDH interface support — Ability to test circuits
from a variety of SONET and SDH interfaces (OC-3/
STM-1 through OC-192/STM-64 interfaces).
– Ethernet interface support — Ability to test circuits from a
variety of Ethernet interfaces (10/100/1000 Mbps Elec-
trical through 100M and1 GigE optical circuits), and
10 GigE LAN and WAN optical circuits at 850 nm,
1310 nm, and 1550 nm.
– Intuitive user interface — User interface facilitates quick
test configuration and execution, and easy interpretation
of test results.
– Detailed test results — You can use the entire screen to
observe test results, or you can collapse and expand
certain test results for which a variety of measurements
are made (such as current, average, minimum, or peak
throughput measurements). You can also suppress
graphical result collection if you intend to run resource
intensive applications. For Dual Term or Dual Through
applications, you can observe test results for both ports
simultaneously.
– Automatic traffic transmission —You can optionally set up
Ethernet, IP, and TCP/UDP test applications to generate
and transmit traffic automatically whenever you turn the
laser on (for optical applications).
– VT-100 terminal emulation — If your instrument is
optioned to do so, you can use it to emulate a VT-100
terminal, and then connect it to a network element via a
serial interface to gather information about the element.