Agilent / HP / Keysight 37719A

The Agilent 37719A OmniBER 719 communications performance analyzer offers a single box field portable multi-rate SONET tester up to 2.5 Gb/s (STM-16/OC-48).

The Agilent 37719A OmniBER 719 analyzer is ideally suited to installation, maintenance, commissioning, system verification and manufacture of SONET transport networks and network equipment.

POS and ATM devices can also be tested up to 2.5 Gb/s by simply adding the appropriate payload mapping options. The latest enhancements to the Agilent 37719A OmniBER 719 analyzer include a choice of instrument variants for multi-rate testing. This new choice allows buying the SONET test configuration that is needed today and upgrade in the future as the testing needs move to higher rates.

The 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer is not only rugged and portable, its easy-to-use Smartsetup and Smart Tests simplify and speed up the installation and maintenance of SONET networks.

The 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer automatically displays all of the 48 J1 identifiers in an OC-48 signal, or 16 in an STM-16 signal. With the signal structure now identified it’s a simple process, using the cursor control keys, to select a channel of interest and to explore right down into the payload.

The front panel Smart Test key offers a simple shortcut to the extensive capabilities of the 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer. The Smart Tests are grouped together in functional blocks so there is no need to be an instrument expert to get tests up and running quickly.

The color VGA display on the 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer operates in single- or multi-window mode. In multi-window mode, four windows are diplayed allowing simultaneous viewing of transmitter settings, receiver settings, graphical results and text results summary. A VGA output is provided on the front panel for connection to VGA projector for training purposes.

The 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer measures the length of the error burst associated with a protection switch. Unlike the old method of correlating bit errors with time, the unique implementation in the analyzer is accurate to 50 µs with a resolution of 1 micro s.

The 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer helps to speed up the SONET ring testing and ensure that the advantages of the SONET ring configuration will be delivered when problems arise on the live network.

The three different thru modes of operation available in 33719A OmniBER 719 are Transparent, AU-n/STS Payload overwrite, and TU-n/VT payload overwrite.

The 33719A OmniBER 719 analyzer provides concatenated payload testing at all levels of a SONET signal. As well as providing concatenated payloads at the line rate.

The UIDs that are shipped with OmniBER 719 analyzer provide a suite of graphical function panels which make programming the analyzer easy and fast. There is no need to know about SCPI commands as they are generated automatically by setting switches on a graphical function panel.