The 9581 SST is the hub of the Guardian System II for return path maintenance, providing installation, reverse sweep and ingress spectrum information to field technicians using Trilithic?s field units. When used in a Guardian System II, the 9581 SST shares spectrum information with the monitoring facility and the field units, speeding up problem identification and shortening repair times. The 9581 SST monitors the return band, generates SNMP traps, and relays monitored data to NOCs and designated network engineers. Extremely flexible, each SST supports up to twelve distribution technicians and a virtually unlimited number of installers. It can provide live spectrum information and recent historical data to as many as eight independent monitoring sites, each using its own SNMP trap criteria. Traps sent to each of these sites can be configured for different ingress severity alarm limits and persistence.