TDR and FDR identification of bad splices in telephone cables

Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 838-841

  Dodds, David E ^a   Shafique, Muhammad ^b   Celaya, Bernardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b SED Systems Inc   (Canada)

^c Consultronics Ltd ^*  (Canada)

Author keywords

DSL testing; Reflectometry; TDR; Telephone lines

Indexed keywords

DSL; FAST FOURIER TRANSFORMS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; INTERSYMBOL INTERFERENCE; REFLECTOMETERS;

DIGITAL TRANSMISSION; FREQUENCY DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (FDR); SIGNAL LOSS; SPLICE DISCONTINUITY;

TELECOMMUNICATION CABLES;

EID: 39049107116     PISSN: 08407789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CCECE.2006.277760     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (5)

1. Bernardo Celaya and David E. Dodds, 2004 "Single-ended DSL Line Tester", Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 2-5, Niagara Falls, Canada, Vol. 4, pp. 2155-2158
2. David E. Dodds and Bernardo Celaya, 2005 "Locating Water Ingress in Telephone Cables using Frequency Domain Reflectometry", Proceedings of IEEE Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering, May 1-4, Saskatoon, Canada, pp. 0098-0101.
3. USA Patent #5,747,742, Edward D. Nelson, "Protective Wrapping for Spliced Cable Connectors", May 5, 1998.
4. US Department of Agriculture, Rural Electrification Administration, Bulletin #1751H-501 " Fundamentals of ISDN", Section 3.9 Sealing Current, Available online: www.usda.gov/rus/telecom/publications/pdf_files/ 1751h.501.pdf
5. TelScout TS100 Application Notes, 3 Mar 2005, Available online: www.tempo.textrun.com/archive/ds_ts100app.pdf