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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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 [...