OTDR_TraceView

Anritsu TraceView 4.0 - README DOCUMENT TraceView is software designed to exhibit a subset of the functionality found in Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR software. This software is for evaluation use only and is not supported by Anritsu Instrument Company. For more information about Anritsu software products, please contact your local sales representative. INSTALLING SOFTWARE on WINDOWS NT 4.0+ / 2000 / XP TraceView comes as a zip-compressed file. Unzipping this file into a directory reveals the SETUP.EXE program. You may browse to this file location and launch this file by double clicking or use the RUN dialog box in the START MENU. It is important that SETUP.EXE is run to install the software. The installation software will verify the existence of necessary files, without these files TraceView will not run properly. PROGRAM HELP AND LANGUAGE SELECTION After installation, TraceView will attempt to use the current computer language for program dialogs and help. However, if TraceView does not support the current computer language then English is used. Use the following procedure to change language: 1. Run TraceView. 2. From the program menu bar, select FILE>PREFERENCES. 3. From the Preferences dialog box, select the Language page. 4. Select the desired Program and Help languages from the drop-down lists and click OK. 5. Exit and rerun TraceView to use the selected language. GETTING STARTED TraceView uses the concept of a TRACE LIST to organize trace files. A TRACE LIST allows the user to group and organize trace files in a user customized manner. You may wish to group trace files from a certain date, or from a specific cable. The TRACE LIST concept allows this to happen. When starting TraceView the user must decide whether to open an existing TRACE LIST or create a new TRACE LIST. When the program is launched these options are available as toolbar icons or selections in the FILE drop-down list. CREATING A NEW TRACE LIST Click the NEW icon on the toolbar or select FILE>NEW. The pop-up window that appears allows the user to select a new TRACE LIST or HEADER TEMPLATE. Note that the HEADER TEMPLATE feature is grayed out, meaning that it is available only in fully functional Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR software. Click the TRACE LIST button in the NEW window. Now the program will initiate a new document and allow the user to add trace files to the new TRACE LIST. ADDING TRACE FILES TO A NEW TRACE LIST Click the ADD icon on the toolbar or select TRACE>ADD. A dialog box will appear (Add Traces to Trace List) allowing the user to browse to the location of the desired trace files. Select one or more traces to view and click OPEN. The selected trace files will now be added to the TRACE LIST. The program depicts these trace files as entries in the TRACE LIST window on the left side of the program window. VIEWING TRACES To view a trace from an open TRACE LIST, select the desired trace and click the DISPLAY icon on the toolbar or select TRACE>DISPLAY (CTRL+D) or simply double-click the trace filename. TraceView will allow users to display and overlay up to two traces at a time. Once the desired traces are displayed in the graph window, control over window elements such as scroll bars, cursors, etc. is available to the user. HELP SCREENS Application help is available by selecting HELP>HELP TOPICS from the main menu. A Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR help file is launched to guide the user. Note: The help associated with this program (TraceView) is greater in scope than the program permits. This means that the program will offer guidance on features unavailable to the user of this program. The user can gain a greater understanding of the scope of the Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR software suite by exploring the HELP TOPICS in this fashion. USER'S AND QUICK REFERENCE GUIDES A user's guide and quick reference guide are included in this zip file. These documents are for the complete Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR product and are included with TraceView to provide the user with documentation about basic program features. TraceView exists as a subset of the functionality of Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR, therefore the manual and quick reference guide will describe features unavailable to a user of TraceView. TraceView differs from Anritsu NetWorks/OTDR in that TraceView only supports: . Recall and overlay up to two traces(CMA 5000,CMA4000/8800/40, TD-3000, PK7500, 383, Bellcore GR-196, Telcordia SR-4731, TD-1000, TD-2000, TD-9980, TD-9960, TD-9950). . Support standard and custom headers. . Trace List file defines the traces to be processed. . Print Current View - header, trace, and analysis results. . Graph up to 2 traces with 4 view modes : Display from Origin, A Cursor, B Cursor, and Anywhere. . Graph features include axes, legend, A/B cursor, zoom, scroll, shift, stack, LSA cursors, and event symbols. . User control over parameter preferences such as distance units. . Full manual measurements using dual cursors, for loss modes of Splice, Two-point, Two-point Attenuation Corrected, Two-point LSA, dB/Km, dB/Km LSA, ORL from Origin or ORL A-to-B. . Display and edit trace parameters, headers, and events. . View and print CMA 5000 and CMA4000 Power Meter files. . On-line help. TraceView is a viewing program with limited functionality and does not allow modified traces or power meter readings to be saved. SAMPLE TRACES The trace files 5ITGNAO.001-6 and 5NAOITG.001-6, included with the TraceView program, are actual traces of 6 fibers on a cable and may be used to exercise the various features of TraceView. The approximate splice points, in km, for the cable is as follows : ITG to NAO NAO to ITG ---------- ---------- 6.88 79.82 14.45 72.12 26.73 59.96 33.02 53.61 45.26 41.31 57.15 29.46 61.58 24.99 63.76 22.82 70.30 16.36 80.42 6.19 end-> 86.59 86.56