The Viavi SMARTID-PLUS-1PC-TELCO SmartID Plus Probe is a powerful home coax network troubleshooting tool for testing not only continuity, but also highlighting reflections, sweep response testing and ingress analysis.

The OneExpert (sold separately) is the user interface for SmartID Plus, which is used to troubleshoot coaxial network issues, along with either a SmartID probe (sold separately), or set of Active IDs (sold separately). With a SmartID probe, the tech can do a detailed point to point analysis, and with the ActiveIDs continuity can be quickly verified to outlets throughout the home.

The combination of SmartID Plus and a SmartID (sold separately) provides users with additional detail about the specific coax path under test. With the SmartID Plus connected close to the premises point of entry, the SmartID is then connected at a CPE location, or other location to be tested to obtain details, including:

Continuity checking through passive and active coax devices

Length of network path between test points

Frequency response point-to-point including loss calculations up to 1.6 GHz, for troubleshooting voice, video, data, and MoCA services

Reveals reflections between each location and provides distances to those reflections

Excessive ingress analysis at both ends

The combination of SmartID Plus and ActiveIDs (sold separately) makes identifying specific coax runs easy and tells users if the cable ends are connected or not. SmartID Plus is connected close to the premises point of entry and ActiveIDs are connected at each location where a CPE device, like a set top box or cable modem, would be located. The ActiveIDs are labeled from 1 to 8 so techs can remember where each ActiveID is connected and allow them to quickly determine if any ActiveID is not found. If an ActiveID is not discovered, then the coax is either not connected or has greater than 15dB of attenuation or signal loss between the SmartID Plus and the ActiveID. If the ActiveID is displayed, then there is continuity between it and the SmartID Plus in the coax network.