The Bane of the Unnecessary Truck Roll
I received this email from a retired field technician who is also a POTS and…
Browsing: DSL/G.Fast/Vectoring
Fault Locating the Copper Infrastructure for Bandwidth With the Advent of IoT
The ongoing expectation of extended, reliable and quality bandwidth has always been a maintenance challenge…
Bandwidth Demand
I received an email from Todd who is the Plant Operations Manager of a fine…
The unknowns that make fault locating in sections of buried telephone plant difficult.
Most bad sections of buried copper plant are a slam dunk to fix, especially when…
Electric Fence Interference
I received a question from a field technician about electric fence interference. He shared that…
A Hitch in the IoT
In 2019 I see the IoT expanding at an alarming rate, and I project that…
Using the earth-gradient test set when fault locating in buried plant
Around 1976, a fine gentleman by the name of Tom Lathrop, then with Bell Labs,…
Troubleshooting the Copper Network
When Test Sets Do Not Perform to Expectations — Field technicians have a multitude of…
Repair of Your Wounded Copper Infrastructure
In an earlier column we discussed the proactive process of finding single pair faults in…
High Voltage Transmission Lines Over a CO/Hut
I recently received an email from Aaron, a manager of an independent telephone company, discussing…