Performance evaluation of a handheld network analyzer for testing of balanced twisted-pair copper cabling

Author

Yu Song Meng ; Patel, Arvind C. ; Yueyan Shan ; Pandya, Harshang N. ; Youbo Wang

Author_Institution

Nat. Metrol. Centre, Agency for Sci., Technol. & Res. (A*STAR), Singapore, Singapore

fYear

2014

fDate

24-29 Aug. 2014

Firstpage

348

Lastpage

349

Abstract

Performance evaluation of a handheld network analyzer (field tester) for certifying balanced twisted-pair copper cabling is carried out in this paper. Some key parameters such as return loss, near-end cross-talk, and insertion loss for cabling have been investigated, in order to comply with the newly proposed IEC-61935 standard. Accuracy of the field tester is then compared with a four-port vector network analyzer (with fixtures) in laboratory. Good agreements have been observed which demonstrate its measurement capability up to 2 GHz.

Keywords

IEC standards; crosstalk; measurement standards; network analysers; twisted pair cables; IEC-61935 standard; balanced twisted-pair copper cabling; field tester; four-port vector network analyzer; handheld network analyzer; insertion loss; near-end cross-talk; performance evaluation; return loss; Communication cables; Copper; Fixtures; Loss measurement; Optical fiber cables; Standards; Testing; Electromagnetic coupling; measurement technique; standard; twisted-pair cabling;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Precision Electromagnetic Measurements (CPEM 2014), 2014 Conference on

Conference_Location

Rio de Janeiro

ISSN

0589-1485

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-5205-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CPEM.2014.6898402

Filename

6898402