Fluke Linkrunner Pro

Troubleshooting or just maintaining a network can be time consuming and costly. Fluke Linkrunner Pro combined with Fluke Etherscope is an easy and non-expensive way to not only troubleshoot front-line IT problems and in-depth LAN analysis but also determine the quality of a LAN with RFC2544 tests which include latency, loss and BERT throughput.

The linkrunner will test at 10/100/G - identify device capabilities and confirm actual connected speed/duplex status; detect, verify availability, voltage level and pairs of Power-over-Ethernet per IEEE 802.3af specifications; identify nearest switch address, slot and port with Cisco, Extreme and IEEE Link Layer Discovery protocols; test cable wiremap including test wiremap and length; detect miswires, shorts, split pairs or opens; measure distance to faults with TDR.

Etherscope tests include: gigabit and wireless LAN troubleshooting; 10/100/G twisted pair and fibre-optic LAN analysis; 802.11a/b/g wireless LAN analysis, with draft 802.11n AP discovery; measure of ethernet performance with RFC 2544 and advanced tests.

Together they can test for RFC2544, QoS, BERT and jitter.