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.