Agilent Technologies HSSI WanProbe J3916A - Manual (Page 25)

Introduction
Probe Overview
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Probe Overview
This section provides some general information on the Agilent J3916A HSSI
WanProbe.
NOTE The HSSI WanProbe repeats the received signal. There is a few milliseconds
interruption to network traffic if the probe loses power.
System Overview
A typical probe distributed monitoring system consists of the following:
z One or more WanProbes
z One or more NetMetrix management stations, using NetMetrix
Figure 1-2 on page 6 shows a WanProbe system example.