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    • Copper Testing & Assurance

    The educational content of this category relates to copper testing and assurance issues for Telecom/Communications Service Providers' (CSPs) mobile and fixed networks.  Best practices and guidance are targeted to telecom providers, contractors and others aligned with the ICT industry.

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    Anritsu White Paper feature, Verifying Traffic Throughput
    5G/6G & Fixed Wireless Access/Mobile Evolution

    Verifying Traffic Throughput of Point-to-Point Wireless Links

    March 5, 2021
    Importance of Testing Point-to-Point Microwave Links IP traffic throughput testing can provide confidence in link performance beyond the equipment’s built-in signal strength and...
    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    Repair of Your Wounded Copper Infrastructure

    Oct. 1, 2018
    In an earlier column we discussed the proactive process of finding single pair faults in the copper infrastructure rather than moving the customer to another cable pair to restore...
    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    High Voltage Transmission Lines Over a CO/Hut

    Sept. 1, 2018
    I recently received an email from Aaron, a manager of an independent telephone company, discussing the effect of high voltage lines on telephone equipment. He stated that a power...
    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    Moisture Diffusion in Underground Pulp Cable Networks

    Aug. 1, 2018
    During a phone call, a cable maintenance supervisor from a large metropolitan area described a cable maintenance problem he had been recently encountering when qualifying pulp...

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    Interference Gone Green

    Feb. 1, 2020
    Interference From Solar and Wind Power on Copper Cable Facilities — As Green Energy power generation becomes more prevalent, interference (metallic noise) has become an ever-increasing...
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    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    Finding Cable Trouble With a Multi-Function Test Set

    May 1, 2018
    We constantly hear in the field that a test set is not performing its advertised task. “My resistance bridge missed that trouble by 75 feet.” “This open meter measured short [...
    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    Even Badly Neglected Copper Has Life Left!

    April 1, 2018
    The following opening paragraphs are contributed by Chuck Blume, someone who’s been in the industry for a very long time, starting as a cable repairman and moving into selling...
    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    Unwanted Noise on Cable Pairs

    March 1, 2018
    A field technician called me to help him with a noise complaint that affected the customer’s POTS circuit and the Internet. The customer and the technician could hear the noise...
    ISE Columnist Don McCarty, OSP Expert
    Network Reliability/Testing & Assurance/Cybersecurity/Safety

    Testing Copper Infrastructure

    Feb. 1, 2018
    Every time someone says copper is dead, it isn’t and there is often a resurgence as new technology increases copper bandwidth and reliability. One day, which is still in the [...