Troubleshooting or just maintaining a network can be time consuming and costly. Using Fluke Linkrunner Pro combined with Fluke Etherscope is an easy and non-expensive way to not only trouble shoot frontline IT problems and in-depth LAN analysis but also determine the quality of a LAN with RFC2544 tests which include latency, loss and BERT throughput.
Individually the Linkrunner can:
- link test at 10/100/Gig — identify device capabilities and confirm actual connected speed/duplex status;
- detect, verify availability, voltage level, and pairs of Power over Ethernet per IEEE 802.3af specifications;
- identify nearest switch address, slot and port with Cisco, Extreme and IEEE Link Layer Discovery Protocols;
- test cable wiremap including test wiremap and length; detect miswires, shorts, split pairs or opens; measure distance to faults with TDR.
The Etherscope can:
- Gigabit and Wireless LAN troubleshooting;
- 10/100/Gig twisted pair and fibre-optic LAN analysis;
- 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN analysis, with draft 802.11n AP discovery;
- measure Ethernet performance with RFC 2544 and advanced tests.
Together the Linkrunner and the Etherscope can test for:
- RFC2544
- QoS
- BERT
- Jitter