Ethernet cable tester

Ideal Industries Networks Division has introduced the IENet PRO Industrial Ethernet Cable Tester that empowers network professionals to instantly verify the integrity of twopair and four-pair Industrial Ethernet cables, and to ensure proper terminations by detecting opens, shorts, miswires, reversals and split pairs in fractions of a second.

With integrated RJ-45 (UTP/STP) and shielded M12 coax interfaces and Profinet formatted results, the IENet PRO handheld tester is designed specifically for this cable type.

Tony Kumeta, general manager, says that as Industrial Ethernet spreads across the network infrastructures of manufacturing and processing plants, the risk of downtime due to cabling faults grows.

IENet PRO features ergonomic design. A button push selects between voice, 2 and 4 pair data, or video, with minimum user interaction.

The device will also measure cable length and indicate correct wiremap to T568A/B standards for shielded and unshielded cabling. It warns of voltages on cables, blink network hubs for visual cable tracing, and has four tones to simplify fault isolation.