The ISN S8 can be used to measure the conducted voltage emissions of telecommunication and data processing equipment. It is designed to measure shielded cables with up to 4 wire pairs. It is based on IEC/CISPR 22 and the related national standards. The special circuitry and design is described in CISPR 22, CISPR 32 Annex G.11 and EN 55022 Annex D figure D.11 respectively. The ISN must provide sufficient decoupling from the equipment under test (EuT) to the auxiliary equipment (AE) which could be a communication device or a kind of load. The measured conducted voltage is coupled out to the BNC connector on top of the ISN S8. An EMI receiver or spectrum analyzer is most commonly used for a measuring instrument.
The ISN S8 can also be used in the other direction to inject conducted radio frequency disturbance into the shield of communication wires. This method is described in IEC/EN 61000-4-6. If the ISN S8 is used for injection it is also referred to as coupling decoupling network (CDN).
The ISN S8 is capable to provide 1000 MBit/s (Gigabit-Ethernet, 1000BASE-T). A cable of the suitable cable category is built in and is wired according to TIA-568A/B.