Optical And Packet Integrated Platform For Test And Measurement

GL Communications Inc., announced its TDM, Optical and Packet Integrated platform for Test and Measurement referred to as mTOP™ platform. The VQuad™ solution supports Wireless as well as 2-Wire and 4-wire analog calls using same hardware. User can perform simultaneous Voice, Video, Data, Fax, and Time Delay Measurements from a single VQuad™ mTOP test solution – greatly reducing the licensing costs per device. Almost all of T1 E1 and T3 E3 Testers can be accommodated into rack-based units. Multiple rack units can be stacked together for greater scalability.

High Density PacketExpert™ of 12/24 GigE ports form factor solution are used for testing multi-port switches, routers and networks end-to-end. Each of the 12/24 GigE port supports auto‐negotiation and flow control. The chassis comprises of both electrical and optical (fiber) interfaces. The Electrical ports can operate up to 10/100/1000 Mbps line rates in Full Duplex mode, while Optical ports can operate up to 1000 Mbps line rate in Full Duplex mode. A single PacketExpert™ mTOP™ test solution with stacked rack units greatly reduces the licensing costs per device.”

Important VQuad™ mTOP™ Solution features

Support up to 12 simultaneous and independent ports
Configure Dual UTA HD devices as Analog FXO, Analog 4-wire (Headset), Bluetooth (Mobile phone), Mobile Radio with PTT, or Phone Handset (RJ22)
Provides full Automation using VQuad™ scripting and Remote operation using CLI and API
Supports Call metrics such as Call Failure, Call Drop, and Call ID
Supports Audio analysis including VQT POLQA, Delay Measurements, Signal/Noise Level, RMS Power, Frequency Response, Audio Dropout Analysis
Dual UTA HD supports NB, WB and SWB audio
Mobile Testing supports any mobile phone as well as all networks (including VoLTE and 5G)
All Results/Events sent to Central Database and accessed via WebViewer™

Important mTOP™ T3 T1 E3 E1 Testers features

Analysis/Emulation of T3 (44.736 Mbps) and E3 (34.368 Mbps)
Analysis/Emulation of ATM, PPP, HDLC, and Frame Relay signalling
Record / Playback of entire T3 or E3
Monitoring & generating alarms, and error insertion
Analysis of all 28 T1s (1.544 Mbps each) per T3 port, or 16 E1s (2.048 Mbps each) per E3 port in Channelized mode
Analysis of Fractional T1s and E1s, N x T1s or N x E1s
Analysis of any combination of DS0s (64 kbps each) within the T1s or E1s ( for example, each T3 port has 28 x 24 = 670 DS0s for T1 or 21 x 32 = 672 DS0s for E1) with additional applications, such as record-only, one can even record traffic at DS0 levels
Support for all T1 E1 “basic applications” and “special applications”
Monitor the T1 E1 line conditions such as frame errors, violations, alarms, frequency, power level, and clock (or frame/bit) slips
Comprehensive Analysis / Emulation of Voice, Data, Fax, Protocol, Analog, and Digital signals, including Echo and Voice Quality testing

Important mTOP™ Ethernet Tester features

High density Ethernet Ports with 12 or 24 ports. Stack multiple HD-PacketExpert™ unit to handle large number of ports
Selective-Port Loopback and Wire speed BER Testing
Wire-speed BERT, RFC 2544, Loopback, and WAN Link Emulation
Layer 1, Framed Ethernet (Layer 2), Stacked MPLS (Layer 2.5), IP (Layer 3), and UDP Layer 4)
User selectable Electrical and/or Optical interface for Port2 and Port3 allows mixed technology testing
Generate and capture Ethernet traffic on Electrical (up to 10/100/1000 Mbps) and Optical (1 Gbps) interfaces
All interfaces can run simultaneously and independently
Detailed frame statistics in tabular format for all the ports
Command Line Interfaces – Console based CLI, Client-Server based CLI, WCS ( Windows Client/Server), or via TCL or Python clients using MAPS™ CLI Server, allowing remote control
Real-time results are presented per port and all-port basis in both tabular as well as graphical formats
Consolidated detailed test result reports for all the ports on all the devices in PDF and CSV file formats