Cat 5 Cable

Network cable testing is an area that requires a lot of perfection and specialization. As a network tester you may face a lot of tricky situations like a broken wire, faults and other cable related issues. A network design may be very complex. Its management may include several issues like how to avoid electrical interference, cable length, network speed or issues related to network architecture. These issues are to be handled using cable testers. Let us discuss these issues in details.

Speed Of Network

To know at the speed at which the network is working is important and can be of great help. Link testing is a testing technique used to know the exact speed of a network. If the speed of your network is in Gigabytes, your standards demand that your cable should be a CAT 5e.

Mapping Of Wires

You should always check that pin 1 at one end is connected to pin 1 at the other end, failing which the connection may get short circuited. A continuity test is required to check these loopholes. Some tone generators are used to identify the cable or trace the signals.

Connectivity

The connectivity of one machine to the other is tested through ping tests.

Faults In Cables

Sometimes the older cables are left unchecked while establishing new cables because it is thought that they are going to work in the same way as they used to work earlier. But actually it is very difficult to find the fault. These faults could be traced by checking the wire pairs.

Length Of The Cable

The longer cable length results into reduced signals or no signals at all. So the cable length should be checked while establishing a new network. Make sure that the attenuation increases with the speed of the network.

Voltage

A high voltage or some electrical noises may cause network problems. It therefore becomes a necessity to keep a check on network voltage.

Validator-NT NT955

It tests the network speed as well as the cabling. It has a unique feature of collecting or gathering information through downloads to manage the network. It also side by side changes or upgrades the existing information with the new one. Some of the features of Validator-NT NT955 are : * Create the reports related to the task, * Network documentation, * Testing to TIA 568/570 standards, * Testing of phone or security cables.