Electro Rent Europe now has created a brand new Cost of Ownership whitepaper and calculator which show you how to save money!

Cost of Ownership definition according to the Business Dictionary: “Estimate of all direct and indirect costs associated with an asset or acquisition over its entire life cycle”

Whenever test equipment is provisioned a Cost of Ownership calculation should be undertaken. In most of the cases the calculation is used to decide between alter­native test strategies and alternative equipment suppliers.

However, Cost of Ownership analysis is also impor­tant when considering the acquisition alternatives available and this usually involves a comparison between the rental, lease or purchase of equipment.

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26Gb/s BERTScope available from Electro Rent tests latest generation of serial interfaces

Tektronix BERTScope BSA Series

The latest generation of serial interfaces such as USB 3.0, PCI Express 3.0, SATA, Fibre Channel, Thunderbolt, HDMI, DisplayPort and others implement much higher multi-Gb/s transmission rates. High speed Bit Error Rate (BER) testing is essential to ensure that products designed to these new standards meet their rigorous specifications and perform to expectations. The Tektronix BSA260CPG performs BER testing at up to 26Gb/s sufficient to meet the demands of all third generation serial interface standards and more. » Read more

Electro Rent Europe now offers spread payments up to 24 months at 0% interest on the entire TekSelect equipment program. By offering spread payments at 0% interest you can buy more instruments and stretch your budget over multiple years.

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100 Gigabit Ethernet presents fundamental challenges to network operators and equipment manufacturers

The emergence of 100 Gbps communications is a direct result of the explosion in high bandwidth services such as Video-on-Demand and mobile connectivity.  Today network service providers must deliver high speed communications to their residential, mobile and enterprise customers in a timely and cost-effective manner.  To the network operators and equipment manufacturers the move to every increasing speed creates major challenges in the development and deployment of the next generation networks. Companies with these problems in similar industries have developed a proven method of acquiring the tools they need to do their job and lower their risk of failure: rent and other flexible financing options.

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Third-party distributors now handle more than just low-end test instruments.

Tam Harbert, Contributing Editor — Test & Measurement World, 11/1/2011 12:04:00 AM

Prominent manufacturers of test equipment, who have historically sold directly to their customers, have begun exploring new sales channels and are now offering a wider variety of products through distributors, franchisees, and online stores. And what may be even more surprising is that their use of these new channels is not limited to low-end instruments. In fact, manufacturers are working more closely than ever with distributors to coordinate both sales efforts and technical support.

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Electro Rent Europe took part in a research that explored which forums electronics engineers use. You can find details of the study here.

The research found that engineers use a wide variety of forums, particularly those relating to microcontrollers, processors and software development. We also found that the investment Farnell has put into element14 has generated a significant return as it is the most popular social media platform owned by a distributor.