Versatile package covers all aspects of datacentre installation & ongoing maintenance
9th May 2016 – A new Datacentre Tool Box from Livingston India has been introduced to equip data centre engineering teams and their subcontractors with the varied instrumentation support that they need to complete installation, upgrades and routine maintenance projects in a single package. It provides a customisable rental package of instruments and equipment for electrical power test, thermal imaging, cabling and optical transmission test – all to the latest standards. The tool box can be delivered to any site world-wide, ready-calibrated and fully tested for immediate use.
The new toolbox is aimed at modern data centres that need to provide their customers with high availability to exacting performance standards. Here, high-quality testing is critical across a broad range of technologies.
Rental packages like the Datacentre Toolbox offer engineers access to a broad array of instrumentation, with advanced functionality, high performance and delivering absolute accuracy. The Livingston toolbox provides customers with all the different items of equipment needed. It presents ample scope to mix and match an extensive range of options direct from stock. The rental approach offers maximum flexibility in that Items can be returned when no longer required or swapped for other models if different test parameters have to be addressed.
The Livingston Datacentre Tool Box encompasses the following elements:
- Electrical energy loggers including the Fluke 1735; instruments to measure electrical power disturbance over time, for example the Dranetz HDPQ Power XPlorer; and high-end, realtime power quality analysers like the Tektronix PA4000.
- Infrared imaging systems such as Fluke Thermovision and Keysight TrueIRcameras help to identify cooling issues or systems and cabling at risk of overheating. These instruments can, for example, diagnose out-of-balance three-phase systems that draw excessive power on the zero line.
- Cable testing for both copper and fiber installation and renewal is enabled through devices like the Fluke DSX-5000 or the Viavi Certifier 40G.
- A choice of easy-to-use return loss testers or more sophisticated optical time-domain reflectometers for single-mode or multimode fibre. Fluke Certifibers or the Viavi SmartOTDR fall in the first category, whilst the Viavi MTS-2000, Exfo MAX-720 and Fluke OptiFiber cater for the higher-end requirements. All instruments can be supplied with fibre inspection probes to make sure connectors are clean.
- The Fluke MultiFiber Pro offers an easy to use loss-test set for systems using multifibre push-on (MPO) connectors, diagnosing bad connections, sharp bends and the like.
- Available instrumentation for the growing range of transmission protocols used in data centres – from SDH (1 and 10 Gbps Ethernet), through Fiber Channel from 1 to 16 Gbps and the latest 100 Gbps Ethernet systems – includes Exfo FTB-880 andFTB-8830, Viavi MTS-5822 and new CSAM – 100Gig Ethernet testers.
- Custom toolbox functions can be augmented to facilitate additional functions such as electrical safety and earth resistance test, cable location, and vibration testing to avoid mechanical damage.
By using rental to source test equipment for every project, the correct and most efficient instrument can be used without making compromises. Data Centre Toolbox users additionally benefit from Livingston’s global logistics and service operations (as part of the Microlease Group).
