What is a Firebird?

[eweruk]

Now I know that there is a bird called a Firebird and a car called a Firebird but I am in the Networking forum so.....what is it?

To help, this is the info leading to the question:

"If you could connect up the csu/dsu to the T1, and connect it to the Firebird via the V.35 cable and power it up, it should come up just fine."

This is the first time dealing with this so I am trying to get as much info as possible.

Thx in advance!!

[eweruk]

Looks like I found out the answer to my question.

It is Fireberd 6000 Comm Analyzer that I need,
http://www.acterna.com/products/fireberd6000/

[knucklebusted]

There are also t-birds. The likes of AT&T and the LECs usually bring this type of equipment out to our place to find line problems, such as slips and framing errors.

[Graham]

The Fireberd 6000 is a very powerfull tester for telecom testing. It is used to test the circuits prior to customer use, or when a fault occurs. It has "pods" to allow it to be used at just about any speed on any circuit (we have different standards here so I wont use lables).
e.g.

US---------UK (europe)
56k--------64k
1.54Mb/s--2.048Mb/s (T1---E1)
I have used the 1500 often, but the 6000 only occasionally.

PS It may not be true any more, but about ten years ago the 6000 was the only tester we had that had a good enough clock to substitute for the network clock.

G

[eweruk]

I have been checking these out and man are they expensive! I had no idea what a T-Bird or FireBerd was before. Having experience with these units is a great asset to have.

BTW, I found one in a box at work so I will be trying to fugure it out.