HP 37717C

OmniBER 717 communications performance analyzer offers a one box, field portable multi-rate tester to 622Mb/s for installation, maintenance, and commissioning of today's hybrid PDH/SDH/SONET and ATM transport networks and network equipment.

OmniBER 717 can be configured as a dual standard SONET/SDH analyzer for BER and jitter tests which makes it the ideal tool for testing network equipment in a manufacturing environment. The dual SONET/SDH capability along with comprehensive remote control of the instruments rich feature set means that production lines can be rapidly reconfigured to test either SONET or SDH. Training costs and program development times are reduced as there is only one easy-to-use interface to learn.

The Universal Instrument Driver (UID) software which is shipped as standard with OmniBER 717 greatly reduces test software development time. UID's simplify programming since detailed knowledge of SCPI is not required - programming OmniBER can be easily done from a graphical programming environment such as VEE or LabVIEW.

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Optical 1310nm and 1550nm interfaces at 51Mb/s( STM-0/OC-1), 155Mb/s (STM-1/OC-3) and 622Mb/s(STM-4/OC-12) are supported, as well as electrical interfaces at all the commonly used telecom rates. PDH interfaces from 704kb/s to 140Mb/s (E4) and DSn interfaces at 1.5Mb/s (DS1) and 45Mb/s (DS3) are supported. The measurement capability is configured using a modular architecture, allowing flexible configurations and full upgradeability, thus protecting your investment in test equipment.

The instrument can be configured to include DSn, PDH, SONET, SDH, ATM and jitter. Alternatively it can be configured to have any one of these technologies with or without jitter generation and measurement.

Use OmniBER 717 to perform non-intrusive monitoring of live traffic or test network protection switching mechanisms, perform out-of-service BER measurements or fully test ATM physical and cell layers and B.ISDN protocol stack layers. Functionally test PDH/DSn/SDH/SONET multiplexors, regenerative repeaters, digital cross connects, etc., as well as ATM switches, routers and rate converters.

Stress network elements by performing frequency offset, auto-jitter tolerance, auto-jitter transfer and output jitter measurements to ITU-T recommendations. Important parametric tests such as protection switch times, frequency, delay and power measurement are also supported.

Features:

SONET

• AU-3 and AU4 mapping rates for international gateway testing
• DSn/PDH drop/insert (from/to SONET/SDH)
• Thru-data mode (transparent, overhead, overwrite and tributary add/drop)
• Frequency and optical power measurements
• ITU-T G.826 and M.2100/M.2110 and M2120 analysis

SDH

• 140 Mb/s, DS3, 34 Mb/s, 2 Mb/s, DS1 and VC-4, VC-3, TU-3, TU-2, TU-12 bulk-filled payloads
• Pointer sequence generation and pointer analysis
• PDH drop/insert (from/to SDH signal)
• Thru-data mode (transparent, overhead overwrite and AU/TU tributary add-drop)

• SDH jitter generation/analysis to ITU-T G.825/G.958 and O.171.
• Frequency and optical power measurement
• Protection switch times and delay time measurement
• ITU-T G.826 and M.2100/M.2110 and M.2120 analysis.

	Specifications

SONET
 

Frame formats:

OC-12c, OC-12, OC-3c, OC-3; OC-1, STS-3c, STS-3, STS-1, DS3, DS1 to Bellcore GR.253-CORE.

Payloads:

DS3, E3, E1, DS1 and STS-3c, STS-1, VT-6, VT-2, bulk filled to Bellcore GR.253-CORE.

Drop/Insert:

DS1, E1 to/from SONET signal
 

Clock Sources
 

Intenal:

Accuracy ±4.5 ppm

Offset:

Range ±999 ppm

External:

64 kb/s MIS, 1.544 Mb/s BITS, 2 Mb/s MTS signal
 

Connectors
 

Optical:

Customer exvhangeable range of adaptors (FC/PC, DIN47526, ST, Biconic, NEC D4, SC, HMS-10/HP)

Electrical:

155 Mb/s (CMI), 52 Mb/s (B325)
 

Error addition
and detection:
 

AIAL frame, B1, B2, REI-L, B3, REI-P,VT BIP, REI-V, payload bit errors.
 

Alarm generation
and detection:

LOS,LOF,SEF, AIS-L, RD1-L, AIS-P, RDI-P, LOP-P, Path unequipped, AIS-V,ROI-V, LOP-V, UT unequipped, Loss of VT superframe.
 

Pointer Sequences:

Generation and analysis to ITU-T G.783 and GR.253 plus APS time measurement.
 

SDH
 

Frame formats:

STM-4, STM-1 to ITU-T G.707, STM-0 to ITU-R F.750.

Payloads:

ITU-T G.707 (140 Mb/s, DS3, 34 Mb/s, 2 Mb/s, DS1 and C-4, C-3, C-2, C-12 bulk-filled)

Drop/insert:

140 Mb/s, 34 Mb/s and 2 Mb/s to/from SDH signal.

Clock sources
 

Internal:

Accuracy ±4.5 ppm.

Offset:

Range ±999 ppm.

External:

2 Mb/s / 2 MHz MTS signal, received STM-4, STM-1 and STM-0 signal.

Connectors
 

Optical:

Customer exchangeable range of adaptors (FC/PC, DIN47526, ST, Biconic, NECD4, SC, HMS-10/HP).

Electrical:

BNC or small Siemens on all transmit/receive and drop/insert ports except STM-1/STM-4 NRZ which is SMA.

Interfaces
 

Optical:

622Mb/s, 155 Mb/s (1310nm and 1550 nm).

Electrical:
 

155 Mb/s (CMI), 52 Mb/s (B3ZS), STM-1/STM-4 NRZ (ECL).

Error addition
and detection:
 

A1A2 frame, B1, B2, MS-FEBE, HP B3, HP FEBE, HP IEC, LP B3/BIP-2, LP FEBE, payload bit errors.

Alarm generation
and detection:
 

LOS, LOF, OOF, MS AIS, MS FERF, HP AIS, HP FERF, HP LOP, HP unequipped, LP AIS, LP FERF, LP LOP, LP unequipped, H4 LOM.

Pointer sequences:

Generation and analysis to ITU-T G.783.

Protection switching:

MSP linear messages to ITU-T G.783 and MSP ring architecture to ITU-T G.841 plus protection switch time measurement.

DSn
 

FrameFormats

DS3: C-Bit parity as per ANSI T1.107 - 1990 M23 as per ANSI T1.107-1995 DS1: SF (D4), ESF as per ANSI T1.403-1989, TR-TSY.000499 and ITU-T Rec. G.704, SLC-96 E3: As per ITU-T G.751 E1: As per ITU-T G.704

Payloads

Framed, unframed or structured (full mux-demux) with 64 kb/s, 56 kb/s, n x 64 kb/s, nx 56 kb/s, timeslot testing.

Clock sources
 

Internal:

Accuracy; ±0.5 ppm for DS3, E3 and E1; ±0.7 ppm for DS1

Offset:

Range ±100 ppm

External:

Clock recovered by receiver (loop timed)

Connectors
 

Electrical:

Unbalanced DS3 - BNC Balanced DS1 - WECO bantam Unbalanced E3 - BNC Balanced E1 - WECO bantam Unbalanced E1 - BNC DS1 add/drop - WECO bantam E1add/drop - BNC

Interfaces
 

Electrical:
 

DS3 (B325), E3 (HDB3), DS1 (AMI or B825), E1 (AMI or HDB3).

Error addition
and detection
 

Code. Frame, CRC, Parity, FEBE, REBE, Payload.

Alarm generation
and detection

LOS, AIS, LOF, RAI

Frame formats:

140 Mb/s to ITU-T G.754, 34 Mb/s to ITU-T G.751, 8 Mb/s to ITU-T G.742 and 2 Mb/s to ITU-T G.704 (Std and CRC4).
 

Payloads:

Framed, unframed or structured (full mux-demux) with 64 kb/s and n x 64kb/s timeslot testing.
 

Drop/Insert:

2 Mb/s to/from 8 Mb/s, 34 Mb/s or 140 Mb/s signal.

Clock sources
 

Internal:

Accuracy ±4.5 ppm.

Offset:

Range ±100 ppm.

External:

Received 2 Mb/s signal, external 2 Mb/s / 2 MHz MTS signal on jitter generator module, external clock input on PDH binary interface module.

Connectors
 

Electrical:

BNC or small Siemens on all transmit/receive and drop/insert ports.

Interfaces
 

Electrical:

140 Mb/s (CMI), 34 Mb/s (HDB3), 8 Mb/s (HDB3/AMI), 2 Mb/s (HDB3/AMI).
 

Error addition
and detection:

Code, frame, CRC4, REBE and payload bit errors.
 
 

Alarm generation
and detection:

LOS, AIS, LOF, RAI, RMFAI, CASMFL.

Jitter
 

Jitter can be added to and measured on PDH, SDH and ATM signal structures.
 

Rates:

STM-4o, STM-1o, STM-1e, 140 Mb/s, 34 Mb/s, 8 Mb/s and 2 Mb/s.
 

Jitter and wander generation:

Automatc jitter tolerance to ITU-T G.958 and G.823 with jitter and wander tolerance to ITU-T G.825. Jitter frequency range: 0.1 Hz to 5 MHz Jitter amplitude range: up to 200 UI Wander frequency range: 10uHz to 0.125 Hz Wander amplitude range: up to 14 400 UI Jitter tolerance pass masks: ITU-T G.958 type A and B, ITU-T G.823 low Q and high Q.
 

Jitter measurement:

Peak-to-peak and rms output jitter and pointer jitter measurements with internal 12 kHz HP plus HP1, HP2 and LP filters to ITU-T O.171.
 

Jitter transfer:

Automatic jitter transfer with narrow bandwidth selective filtering to ITU-T G.823 and G.958.
 

Jitter transfer
pass masks:
 

ITU-T G.958 type A and B, ITU-T G.823 low Q and High Q.
 

Wander:

Measurement 2 Mb/s wander measurement with time interval error, estmated frame slips, bit slips and implied frequency offset results.
 

ATM
 

Frame formats:

DS1: ESF to ANSI T1.403 - 1989, Bellcore TR-TSY-000499 and ITU-T G.704. DS3: C-Bit parity to ANSI T1.105 - 1991 and TR-TSY-000253.
 

Foregrounnd
VC payload:

Cross cell PRBS (2^15 - 1, 2^23 - 1 to ITU-T 0.151). Single cell PRBS (2^9 - 1). User defined byte repeated to fill cell payload (48 bytes). Test cell (to draft ITU-T O.191).
 

Error add
and detection:

E1: FAS, BPV/code, CRC-4, REBE, E3: BPV/code, BIP, STM-1/OC-3c: As per SDH Single HEC or double HEC Payload errors
 

Alarm generation
and :

Physical layer DS1: LOS, LOF, AIS, RAI. DS3: LOS, LOF, AIS, RAI, FEAC. DS3: PLCP:RAI. E1: LOF, AIS, RAI. E3: LOF, AIS, FERF. OC-3c/STM-1: Asper SDH section
 

ATM layer:

VP-FERF/VP-ROI,VP-AIS, VC-FERF/VC-ROI, VC-AIS (all end-to-end) Continuity check: VP-CC, VC-CC
 

Additional ATM layer alarms detected:

Loss of cell sync, selected cell not received, congestion experienced, test cell loss, payload pattern loss, PM-OAM loss.