IntelliTone Breakthrough Digital Signaling Technology
Only IntelliTone Toners and Probes bring the performance breakthrough of digital signal technology to common problems that come up in installing, maintaining, changing and troubleshooting your network.
Locate Cables Quickly and Easily
Fluke Networks Engineering has applied decades of cable testing expertise to the science of locating copper cables. The result is what we call IntelliTone technology—a smart digital signal-toning and signal-interpreting process that rapidly and precisely zeroes in on even the most elusive cables.
With IntelliTone digital technology, analog hassles are history. IntelliTone Toners and Probes succeeds in all of the situations where analog technology fails—such as locating cable in a bundle despite signal bleed from cable to cable. Differentiating the tone from noise or a false signal. And finding a signal due to active network terminations.
Simply attach the IntelliTone Toner to a cable and set the sensing mode on the IntelliTone Probe. IntelliTone technology energizes cable conductors with a smart, sychronized digital signal. Multiple tone types occur in the signal that help you to:
- LOCATE a cable from a distance using maximum radiation
- ISOLATE a cable from a bundle using a balanced signal with minimum radiation
- VALIDATE cable conductor continuity with an automated signal that steps through each conductor
The IntelliTone Probe's signal selection thumbwheel lets you choose which tone type to use. Controlled LED signal indicators and audio tones simplify signal interpretation and take the guesswork out of cable location, reducing even the toughest locating problems into a few minutes' work.
The IntelliTone Toner and Probe also does the work of multiple testers—integrating the essential diagnostic and troubleshooting features to validate cable conductor continuity, identify service, and troubleshoot as needed. It would take two to four other testers to locate and test the diverse array of cabling types that IntelliTone handles
Locate and isolate the most elusive cable or wire
Locate Hidden Cables from a Distance
One of the toughest, most time-consuming parts of locating a cable has been in tracing its path through walls, ceilings or wiring closets. The IntelliTone smart digital signal features a LOCATE tone that provides maximum radiation, allowing you to quickly locate hidden and hard-to-find cabling from a distance.
Isolate the Right Cable—Fast
Cabling installations have become increasingly complex, which has made cabling increasingly difficult to locate with analog technology. Cables from individual wall jacks or devices are often brought together and run in bundles to a central area or panel. When cables are run together for even short lengths, a signal from one can bleed over to another. Twisted pair cabling is the toughest cabling to isolate with analog audio toners and probes. One cable might carry the original signal; another cable might carry the signal as a result of bleed. Isolating cables with analog tools requires guesswork, training, time for repeated testing—and even the best efforts often result in mistakes.
The IntelliTone Toner uses the unique properties of twisted pair cabling to create a balanced signal that minimizes the effect of signal bleed. The smart digital signal processing in the IntelliTone Probe clearly identifies this signal with audio and LED visual indicators, allowing you to rapidly isolate the correct cable from a bundle or on a patch panel. IntelliTone eliminates hours of cable confusion—and you can count on getting it right the first time.
Overcome Noise—and Save Hours of Time
Fluorescent lights, machinery, computer monitors and electrical wiring all produce noise that slows down cable location or makes it impossible with standard analog audio toners and probes. Together, the IntelliTone Toner's synchronized digital signal and the IntelliTone Probe's controlled signal identification technology reject noise and false signals to clearly identify cable location. This advanced capability alone can save you hours every week on cable location projects.
Validate Conductor Continuity with Cablemap
Eliminate callbacks during cabling moves, adds and changes with the powerful diagnostic capabilities of IntelliTone. The IntelliTone 200 Probe features a CABLEMAP capability that identifies common cable miswires in twisted pair cabling. IntelliTone technology automates the testing of each conductor for end-to-end continuity; LED lights and tones clearly indicate miswires such as opens, shorts or reversed pairs.
Tone on Live Networks Quickly and Safely
Modern network devices use aggressive termination schemes for cables connected to their ports. While this termination reduces noise and crosstalk in the cable, it can also absorb an analog toner signal, making the connected cable impossible to detect with an analog audio probe. The result is that locating an unlabeled network can take hours with analog technology. Unlike analog signals, the IntelliTone™ digital signal stays strong despite common mode termination. And the IntelliTone™ Toner automates toning individual cable conductors, making it quick, efficient and safe to locate cables on active networks.
Identify and Troubleshoot Cable Services
Identify and diagnose POTS with multi-line Telco detect, polarity and ring indication
Continuity – Once you've located a cable, the next step is to validate cable conductor continuity. IntelliTone 100 and 200 Series Toners make it easy—with cable conductor continuity testing that eliminates the need for a separate diagnostic tool.
Service - Is the RJ45 jack a datacom jack, a phone jack—or a dead jack? IntelliTone 200 Toners take the guesswork out of hunting for an active jack, or a jack with the right service. LEDs clearly identify common services found on today's networks, including telecom and datacom services and 10/100/1Gb Ethernet links.
Telecom Troubleshooting - Check telecom services with Line 1 continuity and polarity testing on the IntelliTone 100 and 200 Toners. The IntelliTone 200 Toner adds Line 2 troubleshooting. Confirm telecom circuits with the built-in talk battery capability.
Identify and Troubleshoot Ethernet Networks
Perform moves, adds and changes with powerful diagnostic capabilities of the IntelliTone 200 Toner & Probe
Toning - IntelliTone makes it easy to quickly locate the cable in the equipment closet when performing moves, adds and changes. Unconnected cable can be quickly isolated in the presence of bleed. Cables connected to network equipment can be quickly located without disconnecting the service.
Cablemap - The IntelliTone 200 Probe features a CABLEMAP capability that identifies common cable miswires in twisted pair cabling. Complete per-pin verification of TIA568 wiring identifies the exact wire that is open, shorted or miswired. LED lights and distinctive tones clearly indicate miswires. The built-in Cablemap feature eliminates the need to carry separate tools or returning to the far-end to replace the toner with a mapper. The IntelliTone 200 Kit is the all-in-one tool to locate and map Category 5 cabling even when plugged into a switch, and verify link service after moves, adds and changes.
Verify Ethernet Service - Is the link pulse correct, reversed due to a swap cable of uplink port, or MDIX capable? Identify active Ethernet services present at the office wallplate. LED lights clearly indicate the presence of normal, reversed or MDIX Ethernet link connectivity.
Product Capabilities
- Get advanced SuperVision for locating cable hidden in floors, ceilings, walls and in bundles. Our new IntelliTone Toner and Probe Kits are guaranteed to find the cables others can't. Or your money back.
- Every day, cabling installers and network technicians deal with the shortcomings of cable location tools that are based on 40-year-old analog technology. Even though analog tools mis-identify cable and fail to pick up signals in the most common workplace situations, they've been the only choice out there. Until now.
- The IntelliTone Toner and Probe Series from Fluke Networks gives you a digital signal locating technology that's as advanced as the systems you work with. IntelliTone is a breakthrough solution—and the only solution—that locates and isolates even the most elusive, hidden or bundled voice, data and video cables quickly and reliably, even on active networks. With dramatic gains in speed, precision and productivity that make analog tools obsolete.