[65575] in North American Network Operators' Group
DS-3 test equipment
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Rick Ernst)
Tue Dec 2 16:37:51 2003
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2003 13:37:18 -0800 (PST)
From: Rick Ernst <erond@legendz.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I've searched the archives and find some hits on DS-1 test gear, but I'm
looking for opinions/experience with DS-3 test gear.
We've started bringing up more DS-3 circuits, both directly to customers and
also for Frame/ATM/DSL aggregation. Telco used to do all provisioning and
testing for us, but we are looking to be able to more troubleshooting
in-house.
Any recommended gear for basic functional testing (clock, loop, insert
patterns and errors)? It would be nice if the test gear could do T-1 testing, too.
I'm seeing a fair number of hits on eBay for TTC/Acterna gear, but I don't
know what I'm looking at/for. I've done BERT testing many lifetimes ago, but
don't have any current knowledge/experience.
Thanks,
Rick
