Test and Measurement: Fluke Networks integrates Brother printing for installers

Fluke Networks and Brother Mobile Solutions are integrating their technologies to help installers make labeling and tracking of cable simpler with on-site printing of cable and ID identifier labels. The labels are based on data generated during the network design and installation process in Fluke’s LinkWare Live platform, so that data only needs to be entered once in order to be used for both network purposes and to produce the labels via Brother LabelLink.
Fluke said it plans to pursue other types of technology integrations that make sense with its platform.
“The relationship with Brother is a model for the type of technology integration partners Fluke Networks is working to identify,” Eric Conley, VP and GM of Fluke Networks, said in a statement. “There are other companies who have applications and services that make sense to integrate with Fluke Networks’ technology that will ultimately benefit our customers’ businesses and the jobs they do.”
In other test news this week:
• Spirent Communications launched the latest iteration of its Landslide network emulation solution that supports testing at massive scale. The new Landslide C100-Mw test platform for the mobile core, Wi-Fi, IMS and diameter networks triples the emulation scale and doubles the connect rates from Spirent’s previous platforms, the company said. The new test platform was recently used by Nokia in an evaluation of its virtualized mobile gateway, supporting the emulation of 60 million user experiences and 120 million bearers on a single blade server.
Koosh Mohajeri, director of consulting and solutions engineering at Nokia, said that the new test platform “enabled us to generate a real-world mix of consumer and [‘internet of things’], control, and data-plane traffic to demonstrate Nokia’s outstanding performance, scalability and readiness for market.”
Spirent also expanded its offerings for testing positioning and navigation with its new Spirent GSS6450 Radio Frequency record and playback system. The company said its RPS for capturing real-world RF environments for replay in the lab is the smallest 16-bit system available, weighing in at less than four and a half pounds, and providing detailed RF environment capture of interference, space weather impacts on the Global Navigation Satellite System signal and atmospheric impacts. It’s small enough to be used in vehicles or on foot, Spirent added.
• Keysight Technologies made the latest release of its Benchvue PC-based software for test, with enhanced capabilities for test automation of basic sequences without traditional instrument programming.
 • Mohr Test and Measurement launched a new, portable time-domain reflectometer cable tester that can characterize microwave/radio frequency performance of cables and connectors. The CT100B TDR Cable Analyzer provides high-resolution characterization of TDR impedence waveforms, and can make frequency domain S-parameter measurements such as cable loss/insertion loss and return loss.
• Verkotan will be using Anite’s Propsim F32 channel emulator for multiple-input, multiple-output over-the-air testing at its laboratory in Finland.
• Accedian Networks helped Brazilian operator TIM achieve Metro Ethernet Forum 2.0 certification for the service provider’s national carrier Ethernet services. TIM received that certification earlier this month; Accedian contributed professional services and network assurance technology toward the certification effort as well as training the operator’s engineers to become certified in carrier Ethernet.
• Ixia won Network World Asia’s award for network test and measurement.