1. Module 4 Cable Testing

2. Objectives

3. Waves

4. Sine Waves and Square Waves

5. Sine Waves and Square Waves

6. Exponents and Logarithms

7. Decibels

8. Viewing Signals in Time and Frequency

9. Viewing Signals in Time and Frequency

10. Analog and Digital Signals in Time and Frequency

11. Noise in Time and Frequency

12. Bandwidth

13. Signaling over Copper and Fiber

14. Signaling over Copper and Fiber

15. Signaling over Copper and Fiber

16. Signaling over Copper and Fiber

17. Attenuation and Insertion Loss on Copper Media

18. Sources of Noise on Copper Media

19. Types of Crosstalk
Near-end crosstalk (NEXT)

20. Types of Crosstalk
Far-end crosstalk (FEXT)

21. Power sum near-end crosstalk (PSNEXT)
Types of Crosstalk
Power sum near-end crosstalk (PSNEXT)

22. Cable Testing Standards

23. Cable Testing Standards

24. Cable Testing Standards

25. Crosstalk

26. Time-based Parameters

27. Testing Optical Fiber

28. Testing Optical Fiber

29. New Standard
On June 20, 2002, the Category 6 (or Cat 6) addition to the TIA-568 standard was published.
This new standard specifies the original set of performance parameters that need to be tested for Ethernet cabling as well as the passing scores for each of these tests.
A quality cable tester is the Fluke DSP-LIA013 Channel/Traffic Adapter for Cat5e.

30. Summary