Support From the ICEP Engineer
Field technicians are constantly involved with, and are responsible for, unwanted noise on customer circuits,…
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How to Save a Section of Cable and a Customer
A cable pair from the central office or remote to the customer costs some hundreds…
Resistance Bridge Fault Locating
or the fallacy of single-pair hookups — Over my many years in the business, I…
Letters From Readers
May 8, 2019 Power Influence and Balance — While I always find Don McCarty’s articles…
Don’t give up on the tough cases of power influence and circuit noise
My colleague Russ Gundrum and I helped Sam, a fiercely dedicated manager, solve a problem…
Those Special Cables
Troubleshooting low count cables and drops with today’s test equipment — I received an email…
The Bane of the Unnecessary Truck Roll
I received this email from a retired field technician who is also a POTS and…
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…