Snap-on BK5500 Video Inspection Scope
The BK5500 video inspection scope from Snap-on is a time-saving inspection tool which is ideal for engine, A/C, under dash, suspension and transmission work.
Sumitomo Type-66 TuffCat Mass Fusion Splicer
The Type-66 TuffCat mass fusion splicer features the industry’s first Dual-Automatic-Splice Protection Sleeve Heater System – Sumitomo’s exclusive patent-pending system. The dual heater system’s simultaneous operation helps to eliminate squandered time waiting for a single heater system to complete its cycle. Instead, the streamlined splicing process reduces the bottle neck of “heater wait time” by 88%, improving mass splicing efficiency and productivity in the field by 70%.
Sumitomo Type-39 FastCat Fusion Splicer
The Sumitomo Type-39 FastCat Core Alignment fusion splicer is the industry’s first splicer to feature a Dual-Automatic Heater System featuring Auto Start Heater and Auto Start Splice functions – making the FastCat the fastest splicer available today.
Sumitomo TomCat Type-25e Handheld Fusion Splicer
The new Type-25e TomCat fusion splicer from Sumitomo incorporates all the features, functions and proven reliability of the Type-25 family – the industry’s most popular handheld splicers for FTTx and restoration applications – but with a great many enhancements. The TomCats feature improved optical technology utilizing your choice of an economical single camera system or an industry standard dual camera splice loss estimation system. The improved optical technology, combined with a quicker splice protection sleeve heater, allows the unit to deliver a typical splice time in less that 11 seconds for SMF or MMF.
Snap-on BK6000 Digital Image Capturing Borescope
The BK6000 Digital Image Capturing Borescope from Snap-on offers unlimited uses for inspecting hard-to-see places. With the digital borescope, professional technicians can easily diagnose problems more accurately and quickly, avoiding unnecessary disassembly, and saving valuable time and effort.
Sumitomo Introduces Dual-Heater V-Groove Fusion Splicer
December 15, 2010 – Sumitomo Electric Lightwave has announced the availability of the first fixed V-groove Sumitomo fusion splicer with a dual heating system. The built-in dual heating system of the Type-46 TomCat plus fusion splicer improves splicing efficiency and productivity by 70%, Sumitomo Electric Lightwave asserts. The splicer’s electronic design, which accommodates a built-in [...]
EXFO Launches Handheld FOT-5200 CWDM Channel Analyzer
November 9, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has launched the FOT-5200 CWDM Channel Analyzer, a new test and measurement instrument for CWDM networks. EXFO touts the FOT-5200 as the fastest and smallest tester on the market for the installation, maintenance, and repair of any CWDM network. The FOT-5200 is being targeted at least in part at [...]
JDSU Names New President Of Communications Test & Measurement Business Segment
October 19, 2010 – JDSU (NASDAQ: JDSU) (TSX: JDU) has named David Heard as president of its communications test and measurement business segment. Heard succeeds Dave Holly, who in late August was named to lead the company’s emerging markets business. JDSU’s communications test and measurement business segment provides a range of test equipment and services [...]
EXFO Introduces MaxTester DSL Handheld FTTX Tester
October 7, 2010 – EXFO Inc. has launched the MaxTester DSL, a handheld FTTX tester designed to enable field technicians to quickly and easily turn up xDSL services. The MaxTester DSL supports ADSL, ADSL2, ADSL2+, and VDSL2. Combining DSL, Ethernet, and IP layer testing into one handheld unit, the MaxTester DSL enables service providers to [...]
LeCroy Launches SPARQ Signal Integrity Network Analyzers
October 4, 2010 – LeCroy Corp. has launched a new class of instrument, the SPARQ series of Signal Integrity Network Analyzers. The SPARQ measures 40-GHz S-parameters on up to four ports with single button press operation at a small fraction of the cost of traditional methods such as vector network analyzers, LeCroy asserts. The SPARQ [...]