Trilithic officials recently featured their MetroNet 5000 Ethernet and IP Test Set, describing it as “a true handheld test set with dual-10GbE capability.”

It comes with dual 10GbE Ports for In-line monitoring and testing, rugged, lightweight design designed particularly for field use, a powerful packet and frame filtering, port traffic flooding, what company officials describe as “sophisticated reporting and graphing” and line-rate packet capture and analysis.

Metro Ethernet Networks “play an increasingly critical role in linking core fiber transport networks with access infrastructures, they continue to integrate new technologies, such as 10GbE,” company officials say, noting that as a result, “cable, telecom and wireless service providers need flexible testing tools that deliver both test capabilities and true field portability.”

And if you’re looking for monitoring functions to isolate and solve problems in the network core, edge, NOC (News - Alert) and data center, the new MetroNet 5000 series would be your thing too. Company officials say they’re designed fit or construction, customer turn-up and maintenance applications, where each model offers numerous built-in tests for complete Ethernet, IP and LAN testing in one small, lightweight handheld.

The product also has dual 10GbE interfaces, allowing you to do in-line monitoring and testing for faster problem resolution.

Port traffic flooding is another issue the MetroNet 5000 is equipped to handle, as company officials explain: “The user has the flexibility to flood port traffic for stress testing of network equipment like routers and switches, simulate distributed denial of service attacks and other intrusions, and design or mark packet content to emulate viruses and other security breaches.”

Earlier this year TMC (News - Alert) reported that if you’re looking for communication test equipment such as a portable analyzer capable of analyzing cable and CATV, as well as performing transmission and signal quality tests for analog and digital HSD and VoIP services, you should check out Trilithic’s 860 DSPi.

It’s a fairly popular communication test equipment product these days, offering a versatile option for business needs. It lets you use a single instrument for “all the critical transmission and signal quality tests you need to install and maintain analog, digital, HSD and VoIP services,” company officials say, “without the pauses and boot-up delays of other field analyzers.”

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