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From: natkin@DEGAS.BERKELEY.EDU (Michael Natkin)
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Subject: Re: Submission for mod.telecom
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Date: Tue, 17-Mar-87 19:07:30 EST
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In article <8703130415.AA22972@seismo.CSS.GOV> larry@kitty.UUCP writes:
>	Maintaining proper tip/ring polarity on all outside cables is very
>important to the telephone company, since various kinds of test equipment
>and procedures used from the central office can pinpoint the precise location
>of a cable fault; an important assumption for many of these fault-locating
>procedures is that the outside cables always have tip/ring correspondence.
>
><>  Larry Lippman @ Recognition Research Corp., Clarence, New York

I've always wanted to know how the locating of cable faults works -
i have some hypotheses, but maybe you would care to edify myself and 
other readers on this subject?


michael natkin
natkin@degas.berkeley.edu