Fiber Testing Equipment

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1. Fiber Testing Equipment
Fiber optics cabling has become the primary medium of data transfer in the present datacom networks.
The fiber optics has become the predominant media types in backbone within the buildings, mission
critical data transfer, and long distances for the campus networks. This is due to the advantaged high
speed and bandwidth (Lotuscope, 2019). This has quested for better cleaning and inspection to ensure
that proper message of light is delivered. Types of testing tools are as tabulated below giving the tool
name, description, manufacturer and market price
Name Description Manufacturer Price in $
OTDR Acronym for Optical Time Domain
Reflectometer. This equipment is used for
certifying the performance of fiber optic
links and detection of any problem
existing with fiber link.
King Fisher Fiber 958.53
Fiberoptic 501.9
Source and power meter This equipment is used to measure the
power in the optical signal.
King Fisher Fiber 72.59
Fiberoptic 75.21
2. Types of equipment NICs
NIC cards performs a significant role in the functioning of a computer system. The interconnection
comes through the Network Interface Card (Forouzan & Fegan, 2015). Below table compares different
types of NICs, their features, manufacturers and prices
NIC Type Features Manufacturers Price($)
Wireless This is a wireless controller which connects to radio-
based networked computer system. It uses the
antenna to communicate through microwave
radiation.
D-Link 98
Gigabit Ethernet This type of NIC supports gig over the existing cable.it
supports the PCI Express architecture, has a full
duplex flow control. Is IEEE 802.3x standard
D-Link 49
Fiber Optic It uses 32/64 bit PCI bus interface card. Uses remote
wake on LAN technology
D-Link 316
Gig Ethernet is primarily carried on fiber optic. This NIC is fed in by the existing with 100 and 10mps
cards. Gig Ethernet is at the backbone level. The 10 gig whose standard as IEEE 802.3a is a
telecommunication technology which offers data speeds up to 10 billion. Servers use an embedded 4x1
GbE NIC which has capability of teaming and high speed (Dodd, 2012).
3. IP Configuration of computers
Below table gives the documentation of computers used.
PC
No
IP Information

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PC
1
PC
2