GL Enhances T1 E1 Analyzer Products and Software
October 15, 2012. GL Communications Inc. has announced the release of its Version 6.22 enhanced T1 E1 Analyzer Software and Hardware. The suite of products addresses any traffic over T1 E1 lines, including voice, fax, modem, signaling, mobile, IP, VoIP, and ATM.
Vijay Kulkarni, CEO of the company, explained that GL's Datacom Emulator/Analyzer is an optional board available with GL's tProbe T1 E1 Analyzer USB unit. It is designed for service installation, verification, and maintenance of data-communications and telecommunications equipment. The Datacom Emulator/Analyzer supports V.24, V.35, V.36, X.21, RS-449, RS-485, EIA-530, and EIA-530A interfaces. It can be configured as DTE or DCE to test Channel Service Units (CSUs) and Data Service Units (DSUs) used in point-to-point and multi-point applications.
The FXO port on tProbe allows simulation of a two-wire FXO device such as a telephone or a fax machine. This feature allows users to capture and analyze data from a two-wire telephone line, as well as to generate and transmit analog voice or data onto that two-wire line. Similarly, the FXS port on tProbe emulates a two-wire FXS service such as a telephone wall jack. This feature allows users to interface with an FXO device such as a telephone. Server commands allow users to provide standard FXS features such as monitoring for the off-hook line, sending ring signals, and providing dial tone.
The company's Client Server Based Fax Simulator module uses simple commands to transmit and receive the faxes over timeslots of T1 E1 lines. It supports almost all FAX standards, including V.17, V.27, V.29, V.33, and V.34.
GL's CAS (Channel Associated Signaling) Analyzer supports monitoring and decoding of CAS signaling events over T1 E1 networks. Supported CAS signaling types include MFC-R2 and R1. The real-time analysis is used to capture data on one or multiple T1 E1 lines on specified timeslot simultaneously during transmission. Users can record all or filtered traffic into a trace file. The recorded trace file can then be analyzed offline and exported to an ASCII file or printed.
The MAPS, a multipurpose protocol emulation platform, can now be configured as server application, to enable remote control of the application through multiple command-line based clients. Supported clients include C++, TCL, and Python.
The MAPS TCL Client Interface (MAPS Client IFC) application includes a MapsClientIfc.dll file, a packaged library that enables communication with the MAPS Server from a TCL environment. The advantage of such communication enables user to control MAPS by sending commands and receiving responses in a scripting language already familiar with many users, Kulkarni concluded.