Tools
Diagonal cable cutters
What are diags or dykes?
Provides visibility when working near a road or other dangerous area.
What is a reflective safety vest?
It protects from ingress, egress, and prevents theft.
What is a terminator?
embedded multimedia terminal adapter
What is eMTA?
Point of termination at a customer or business premise. The hand-off to the customer.
What is the Demarc or Demarcation Point?
The size wrench that fits a standard F-connector
What is a 7/16 wrench?
It provides a warning to those near or behind a vehicle or piece of motorized equipment.
What is a backup alarm?
The level a digital signal deviates from its ideal state and given as a ratio.
What is MER (modulation error ratio)?
When the tip and ring are connected backwards.
What is reverse polarity?
It is commonly called a splice barrel.
What is an F81?
Enables one to apply a terminator to a tap or splitter.
What is a terminator tool?
These are approved ladder carry techniques.
What are shoulder, vertical, and D-ring?
This device connects the ground wire to the electrical service ground.
What is a split bolt?
This tool is used to terminate wires at a 66 or 110 block.
What is a punch down tool?
The term used to refer to signals too high for the amplifier circuit.
What is overdrive?
It prepares a trunk or feeder cable for a connector.
What is a coring tool?
Can measure analog and digital signal levels at specific frequencies, signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), check channel quality, and perform Docsis tests.
What is a signal level meter?
The steel cable that counters the tension applied to a pole by the strand and cable and is connected to an anchor.
What is a down guide or guy wire?
The first 5 colors of telephone wires.
What are blue, orange, green, brown, and slate?
Can be remembered by the mnemonic "Bell operators give bad service"
They invented the Internet for the Department of Defense in 1969.
Who is ARPANET? (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network)
Used to find faults and distance to faults in a section of cable.
What is a TDR (time domain reflectometer)?
Device used to find leaks in a cable system.
What is a CLI meter or leakage meter?
Unmodulated signal that has not been put on a carrier.
What is baseband?
The two main parts of a telephone.
What are transmitter and receiver?
The term used for loss of signal over cable.
What is attenuation?