EXFO FTB-8100 Series, User Manual

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SONET Tabs
170
FTB-8100 Series Transport Blazer
Section TX (SONET)
For Manual method:
³
Amount
: Select the amount of manual error to be generated. Choices
are 1 through 50 . The default setting is 1 .
³
Send
button: Press
Send
to manually generate error(s) according to
the Error Type and the Amount of Errors selected.
For
Rate
method:
³
Rate : Select the injection rate for the selected error. The rate must be
within the minimum and maximum values specified.
³
Continuous : Generates the selected error to its theoretical maximum
rate when the
Continuous
check box is selected. The
Continuous
check box is cleared by default.
³
On/Off
button: The On/Off button is used to activate/deactivate the
selected error at the rate specified or at its theoretical maximum rate
when the
Continuous
check box is selected. This setting is disabled
(Off) by default.
Alarm Generation
Allows Continuous alarm generation method.
³
Type
LOF (Loss Of Frame): Generates non-valid framing bytes (A1 and A2).
SEF
(Severely Errored Framing): Generates four consecutive errored
framing patterns.
³
On/Off
button: The On/Off button is used to activate/deactivate the
selected alarm. This setting is disabled (Off) by default. Exceptionally
for continuous SEF alarm, the On/Off button turns Off once the SEF
alarm has been sent.