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Another dated page, with apologees! - Paul KTL can test for compatibility to G.703 for the following interfaces : 64kbps 2.048Mbps (E1) 1.544Mbps (T1) 34.368Mbps (E3) 155.020Mbps (STM-1 electrical) 155.020Mbps (STM-1 optical single mode) to ITU-T G.957, G.707, G.825 KTL is a telecoms test house with main base in Hull, UK, and other facilities at: Ottawa, Canada Littlejohn, near Dallas, USA Arnhem, Netherlands Contact [ John Kidger ] at their Hull office for more information look at the web site - From: [ Kevin Eckersall ], Senior Telecoms Engineer, KTL, Hull, England. From: a xDSL thread (I) have attached my list of DSL test vendors. If anyone wants (me) to add to the list, just send (email) -- (I) can re-post. You can hear more about DSL testing at (my) presentation at [ www.dslcon.com ]DSLcon in Dallas, TX on April 12, 1999. There (was) also a testing breakout session. Hope this is helpful. Product comments are my opinions only. Always open to suggestions. [ PETER MACAULAY] - DSL Training.
DSL Test Equipment Vendors
Spirent Communications (formerly Hekimian Laboratories, Inc. (Rockville, MD), I believe) "TestDSL" module for REACT 2001 CO based test equipment spectral analysis of copper loop IEEE 743 filters loop characterization of crosstalk script shows GO/NO_GO test for ADSL, IDSL testing suggest possible interference and repair remote support via Telnet very complete local loop testing very easy to user operator interface would be excellent for SLA (service level agreements) Consultronics, Inc. (Concord, ON) CoBRA-CQ Longitudinal Balance Load Coil Detection Noise and Impulse Noise as per IEEE-743 filters 256 tone DMT loss test per ANSI T1.413 issue 2 frequency response TDR Turnstone, Inc. (Mountain View, CA) Copper Cross Connect test head spectrum analysis of local loop CO based testing [ www.ttc.com ] TTC, Inc. (Germantown, MD) Model "TTC T-BERD 1000 ADSL ANALYZER" ANSI T1.413 issue 2 tester portable with LCD display University of New Hampshire DSL product testing [ www.genrad.com ]GenRad, Inc (Westford, MA) GENEVA Test and Measurement System testing of both ATU-R and ATU-C Fluke Networks - (Formerly Fluke Instruments, Inc. (Everette, WA)) "xDSL OneTouch" Ethernet based tester shows link speed using TCP/IP watch for a DSP-4000 based product Edgcumbe Instruments Ltd (Lanarkshire, Scotland) Model "E2710" TDR Cable Fault Locator EPL Ltd (Wiltshire, UK) "X-600-4M" ADSL Artificial Line ANSI T1.413 and ETSI ETR 328 line simulator Agilent Technology - (formally Digital Technology, Inc. (Bedford, MA)) PC-based Analyzer measures line attenuation, noise margins Bits per Channel (for DMT) Capture, Decode and Display traffic Traffic Generation Tcl/Tk scripting language support [www.atl.co.uk ] Atlantech Technologies (Columbus, OH) AccessVision family of monitoring [www.netcomsystems.com] NetCom Systems, Inc (Chatsworth, CA) "SmartBits" system based Class-of-Service based analysis QoS performance analysis Out-of-sequence packet tracking and analysis latency variation on a per packet basis Tektronics, Inc. (Beaverton, OR) hand held TDR, DMM Sunrise Telecom, Inc. (San Jose, CA) "SunSet xDSL" handheld tester HDSL, ADSL TDR on-screen display Nitech, Inc. (Old Bridge, NJ) Model "2000 ADSL Test Set" portable with Windows GUI interface TDR testing ATM ping test supports Alcatel DMT chipset ATU-R emulation ANSI T1.413 timed tests uses test scripts shows bit loading per tone CLIC CLIC have the CCR-1B which will provide DSL line testing up to 1.2MHz and test lines for load coils etc. Price starts at $3595 US for this test set. Dial option and RS-232 option also available. Bell Atlantic, Bell Canada and Expertech are just some of their major clients. You can use Alcatel's CT evaluation board to generate a tone for testing the Speedstream 4000 ADSL USB modem Bell Altantic's Rockville MD DSL integration and testing lab
This page was really really dated with most of the links broken. I may get round to updating it one year! Sorry! Cabletron FlowPoint Corporation : a wholly owned subsidiary of Cabletron Systems and a leader in DSL customer premises equipment Leading technology suppliers include : ECI, DeTeWe, Orckit and Siemens, Alcatel... AccessLan Communications are a supplier of carrier-class, multi-service DSL solutions Your local (UK) Alcatel contact: Peter Radley, Alcatel 9 Clifford Street, London W1X 1RB, UNITED KINGDOM Tel: 44.171.534.31.00 Fax: 44.171.534.31.99 Vertical Networks TollBridge Technologies GVN Technologies Netlink The High-Speed Digital Networking Experts