Agilent Technologies 622Vu Advisor, User Manual

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Chapter 2
Introduction
622Vu Advisor is a full bandwidth, Asynchronous Transfer Mode analysis and
management system. It’s designed for use by network managers, technicians,
and development engineers involved with all aspects of ATM technology. 622Vu
Advisor lets you monitor, analyze, and manage the physical interface to each
ATM device, as well as the traffic passing through each port.
This manual uses the terms port and channel interchangeably when channel
refers to the actual physical connector on the Agilent Advisor system.
CAUTION: 622Vu Advisor is very powerful! It allows extensive analysis of
any problem that might occur during ATM transmissions. Because of this,
622Vu Advisor lets you transmit anything; it assumes that any bad or broken data
introduced into cells or packets is being introduced intentionally. (From the
analysis standpoint, a corrupted cell may be what you want.) It’s important, then,
that you fully understand all the implications of 622Vu Advisor’s operation.
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