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SDA-5500
The JDSU / Acterna SDA-5000 Series of Stealth Digital Analyzers provides a
lightweight, weather resistant, rugged, and affordable single instrument with
the versatility to test the latest digital services as well as the ideal device
for maintaining the analog spectrum. The SDA Series provides seamless forward
and return path testing as well as advanced digital testing. A host of
invaluable extra options such as QAM analysis and PathTrak Field View are
available, enabling the SDA Series to be customized for both the cable operators
network technology level and budget.
Features:
- Offers unmatched measurement performance for digital video, data, and
traditional analog services in a single instrument
- Increases the efficiency of service calls and reduces troubleshooting time
- Ensures HFC network integrity with the Acterna non-interfering forward and
reverse sweep system compatible with todays digital signals
- Enables easy preparation of networks for interactive services with a 5 MHz
to 1000 MHz, fast, sensitive spectrum analyzer
- Delivers comprehensive testing of forward and reverse digital services
including optional QAM analysis
- Ensures full in-service proof-of-performance with automated tests
- Rugged, weather-resistant, and lightweight
SDA-5000 Installed Options:
The SDA-5000 is used for HFC network testing and
deployment of digital video, data, and traditional analog services. It is part
of a system sweep solution. The SDA-5000 is a small, lightweight hand-held field
CATV Sweep Analyzer for diagnosing and eliminating problems quickly in CATV
system equipment. Ideal for aligning amplifiers, testing performance of both
forward and reverse path networks, finding and fixing sources of reverse path
ingress, measuring signal quality, and fulfilling FCC and CENELEC
proof-of-performance requirements.
Highlights:
- Qualifies the network for today's high-growth subscriber services.
- Reduces technician time for the most labor intensive maintenance and
troubleshooting.
- Advanced QAM analysis for 64, 128, and 256 QAM (optional).
- Spectrum display from 5 to 1,000 MHz with cable modem analysis (Zero Span
mode).
- Totally non-interfering sweep, specifically for 64, 128, and 256 QAM
digital channels.
Applications:
- Non-interfering, continuously referenced sweep.
- Cable modem analysis using Zero Span mode.
- Full in-service, proof-of-performance analyzer.
- QAM View option provides complete analysis of digital TV and forward cable
modem signals.
- Find ingress fast with Field View option. Cable technicians working in the
field can see the reverse path at the headend.
Key
Features:
- Forward and reverse sweep in one handheld instrument.
- QAM View includes BER, MER, and constellation.
- Equalizer stress and microreflections.
- QAM ingress (noise-under-carrier).
- New graphical test point compensation for easier setup
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