While Penn State’s Testing and Surveillance Center, or TASC, has received provisional Clinical Laboratory Improvement Amendments (CLIA) certification to process the more accurate polymerase chain reaction, or PCR, COVID-19 tests, many third-party vendors use the less accurate rapid tests. Even if an individual receives a negative test result while in isolation, they still must stay in isolation for the minimum of 10 days, in compliance with CDC guidance. Trying to test out of isolation only wastes testing resources, disrupts the contact tracing process and distorts overall test numbers that local and state officials rely on to make informed decisions in mitigating the pandemic, as all COVID-19 test results are reported to the Pennsylvania Department of Health. People who contract COVID-19 - regardless of whether they have or have not received a vaccine - can experience symptoms anytime within the 10-day timeframe and may transmit the virus to others. Individuals in isolation are strongly urged not to attempt to take another COVID-19 test or multiple tests in order to end their isolation early. Symptomatic individuals have to stay in isolation until they have experienced no fever for at least 24 hours without the use of fever-reducing medication, and after symptoms have improved. They cannot leave isolation for a minimum of 10 days and may have to isolate longer if they are symptomatic. Individuals who are in isolation are COVID-19 positive. Employees in quarantine can contact Occupational Medicine for consultation. Penn State’s contact tracing team will work directly with students in quarantine to discuss test out options. Under CDC quarantine guidelines, individuals who are placed in quarantine - generally people who believe they may have come into contact with someone who has COVID-19 or have been identified as a close contact through contact tracing - may be able to test out if they are not experiencing COVID-19 symptoms after five to seven days in quarantine. The notion of testing out of isolation may be confused with testing out of quarantine. Individuals who have been placed in isolation cannot test out of isolation.
ETHERNET TESTING OUT OF ORDER PORTABLE
Additionally, functions such as service disruption time (SDT), round trip delay (RTD) and OTN overhead analysis are readily available making the MAX-800 Series the most versatile portable tester in the industry.When an individual tests positive for COVID-19, CDC guidelines dictate those people must isolate for at least 10 days beginning with the first day of symptoms or the day of test if individual is asymptomatic. Engineers and technicians can evaluate SLAs based on bit error rate (BER). This solution offers test functions that range from bit-error-rate (BER) measurements, service disruption time (SDT) to advanced characterization.ĮXFO has an extensive suite of features for testing optical transport network (OTN) deployments and many of them are also available on the MAX-800 Series.
ETHERNET TESTING OUT OF ORDER FULL
With the large, installed base of legacy DSn/PDH and SONET/SDH circuits in access and metro Ethernet networks, testing, troubleshooting and maintenance have become daily tasks.Ĭovering all DSn/PDH and SONET/SDH interfaces, our ultra-portable MAX-800 handheld tester for DSn/PDH and full legacy SONET/SDH is ideally suited to field service deployment, in addition to installation, commissioning and maintenance of access and metro Ethernet networks. DSn/PDH, SONET/SDH and OTN testingĮXFO is a recognized leader in network testers and telecom solutions. EtherSAM is comprised of two phases, the service configuration test and the service performance test. This suite also enables complete validation of all SLA parameters within a single test to ensure optimized quality of service.
Aligned with the requirements of today's Ethernet services, the EtherSAM test methodology drastically speeds up deployment and eliminates repeat testing by offering full visibility into all service-level agreement (SLA) metrics, immediately and accurately. Transport network testing up to 100G including optical SONET/SDH and OTNĮtherSAM: the standard in Ethernet testingĮXFO's EtherSAM test suite-based on the ITU-T Y.1564 Ethernet service activation methodology-provides comprehensive field testing for mobile backhaul and commercial services.Optional 4 x 100GE EtherBERT Layer 2 testing.Independent dual-port testing up to 100GE.Transport network testing up to 100G: optical SONET/SDH and OTN.Transport network testing up to 10G: DSn/PDH, ISDN, SONET/SDH and optical transport network (OTN).Optional IPv6, MPLS, Through mode and dual-port testing.Ethernet testing including RFC 2544, EtherSAM ITU-T Y.1564, EtherBERT, traffic generation and monitoring (multistream) and Smart Loopback.Additional details are available on the product spec sheet. The MAX-800 Series offers five different models, each with the features listed below.