One – box approvals solution

 

Hermon Labs, Israel manufactures compliance testing solutions according to world’s major telecom standards. It includes access standards, terminal equipments, telecom equipments, digital switches etc. TCA 8200 Telecom Conformance Analyzer comes with test suites ready for testing according to the supported standards. The complete test can be performed in fully automatic manner and documentation required by the standards and agencies with minimal time period.

 

TCA 8200 is a total range of standard requirements for access equipment including analog PSTN, telephones, xDSL,VoIP,  E1,ISDN PRI and ITU-T tests. It can be deployed to perform in-house Compliance testing , Pre-compliance testing , Development testing, Production testing.

 

In the past, approval of terminal equipment meant using a test lab with expert test engineers and tens of non-automated or semi-automated expensive test instruments and setups. Such process usually took weeks. With TCA 8200 you can complete the tests and the documentation required by the standards and agencies in a matter of hours without a need for in-depth knowledge of the standards. Having an in-house compliance testing solution from early design stages can significantly reduce time-to-market. Test labs can benefit also from the ability to provide fast and cost-effective testing services for a broad range of the inter-faces and standards covered by the instrument, its expandability and its extensive management features.

 

TCA 8200 comes with test suites ready for testing according to the supported standards. The tests can be performed in a fully automatic manner one by one or in a sequence. No user interaction is required except for setting of the equipment under test in response to prompts appearing on the screen. Any user-defined commands or built-in AT commands can be used for automatic remote control of the equipment over RS-232 or TCP/IP Ethernet. Such functionality together with the capability to define custom tests and test sequences is especially useful for production testing. Reports in MS Word format with test results and all the information required for a test project are generated automatically. Deciding what standard’s tests are applicable for a particular product can be sometimes a complicated task. Predefined and user-defined criteria for selection of the required tests simplify this task. The tests are automatically selected by answering Yes/ No questions about the functionality supported by the product. The tests can also be selected manually. A test can be automatically repeated with different (or the same) sets of test parameters and limits.

 

Test results are displayed continuously on graphs and table, together with current test status and verdict, key test parameters, user prompts, current test point and measured values. Time and frequency domain measurements with minimum, maximum and average statistics are provided.

 

Besides fully automated testing capability, TCA 8200 provides on-the- fly control of test parameters, “manual” tuning and stepping, which is important for development and debugging testing. Test execution can be paused/resumed, automatically swept or manually stepped through multiple test ranges. Also a test can be run once or continuously, at multiple test points or at a single test point.