Copper Installation, Termination and Testing
How copper cabling is installed and certified, followed through Cobalt Line Systems' Austin crews on a 348-cable office floor: installation planning and submittals, pathways and supports, pulling within tension and bend radius limits, telecommunications room dressing, cable preparation, T568A and T568B jacks, patch panels, cords and modular plug terminated links, verification and certification testing, troubleshooting with time-domain diagnostics, and a capstone handover with records and a manufacturer's warranty.
LVT-130 12 lessons · 3 h 53 min ▶ Video lessons coming soon
Offered by HSM University · Low Voltage Systems
This is the American version of this course. See the Canadian version.
What you'll learn
- Prepare an installation plan for a copper cabling project, including submittals, a cable order, labels, a schedule and a quality plan
- Inspect and prepare pathways and install non-continuous supports, tray, sleeves and boxes so that cable can be pulled and supported correctly
- Pull four-pair cable within its tension and bend radius limits, using hook-and-loop bundling and measured service loops
- Dress cables in a telecommunications room onto ladder rack, cable bars and managers sized for their fill, and keep airflow and access clear
- Prepare cable ends that preserve pair twist and spacing, within TIA-568.2 and manufacturer untwist and strip limits
- Terminate Category 6A jacks and outlets to the T568A or T568B scheme and finish faceplates and consolidation points
- Terminate punch-down and modular patch panels to a logical port map with identifiers that match the records
- Select and check modular plugs, patch cords and field-terminated plugs, including cord loss budgets and modular plug terminated links
- Use verification testers to find opens, shorts, reversed, crossed and split pairs, and calculate length from NVP
- Set up a certification tester and certify permanent links, channels and MPTLs, interpreting margins and PASS* and FAIL* results
- Troubleshoot NEXT, return loss, wiremap and length failures with time-domain diagnostics, and find systematic causes
- Install, certify and hand over a complete floor, including result cross-checks, records and a manufacturer's warranty submission
Course content
12 lessons · 3 h 53 min total · final exam
- 1 Planning a copper installation 21 min · quiz
- 2 Pathway prep and supporting cable 19 min · quiz
- 3 Pulling cable: tension, bend radius and bundling 19 min · quiz
- 4 Cable management in telecommunications rooms 19 min · quiz
- 5 Preparing cable and maintaining twists 20 min · quiz
- 6 Terminating jacks and outlets (T568A and T568B) 20 min · quiz
- 7 Terminating patch panels and racks 19 min · quiz
- 8 Modular plugs, patch cords and field-terminated plugs 19 min · quiz
- 9 Wiremap, continuity and verification testing 19 min · quiz
- 10 Certification testing of permanent links and channels 20 min · quiz
- 11 Troubleshooting failures: NEXT, return loss and length 19 min · quiz
- 12 Capstone: installing and certifying a floor 19 min · quiz
- E Final exam 20 questions
Requirements
Recommended background. You can start any course at any time.
Description
How copper cabling is installed and certified, followed through Cobalt Line Systems' Austin crews on a 348-cable office floor: installation planning and submittals, pathways and supports, pulling within tension and bend radius limits, telecommunications room dressing, cable preparation, T568A and T568B jacks, patch panels, cords and modular plug terminated links, verification and certification testing, troubleshooting with time-domain diagnostics, and a capstone handover with records and a manufacturer's warranty.