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What is cable
documentation?
Cable documentation is a printed record of a Sample Cable’s unique signature, the
adapters used to test it, and the test parameters used to test it. It also contains a
complete list of the interconnections in the cable, and any notes necessary to help you
build the cable.
Why prepare cable
documentation?
When you prepare complete documentation, you prepare a standard set of information
from which future cables will be built. The 1000M can help you prepare documenta-
tion by learning a Sample Cable. Once the cable has been learned, you can either tran-
scribe it by hand onto a documentation form (see page 57), or print it out if you have
a printer connected to your analyzer.
Once the cable has been completely documented and stored in memory, you won’t
need to keep an array of “known good” cables handy for comparison. If the signature
prompted by the analyzer after each test matches the signature in the cable’s docu-
mentation, you can be sure the cable is correctly built according to your specifica-
tions.
You can store Sample Cable information in the analyzer’s memory. When you
retrieve that information from memory, you program the analyzer just as if you’d
learned a real Sample Cable. The analyzer will prompt the Sample Cable’s alphanu-
meric signature, and which connector adapters to install. See page 22 for information
on how to store a Sample Cable in memory, and page 27 for information on how to
retrieve a cable from memory.
How to interpret cable
documentation
The documentation your 1000M produces contains all the information you will need
to precisely duplicate test setups. This example shows a typical wirelist with the cable
signature, adapter signatures, and the list of interconnections.
A.
This example shows a cable with the cable signature BBF038. This signature must
match those prompted in the display when you are preparing to test cables.
B
. This blank area is left so you can write in the cable’s part number.
C.
These are the connector adapter signatures. In this example, the signature for the
CABLE SIGNATURE: BBF038 CABLE PART NO.:__________________
J1 ADAPTER SIGNATURE: 03FAC1 CONNECTOR DESCRIPTION:________
J2 ADAPTER SIGNATURE: F5B4E0 CONNECTOR DESCRIPTION:_______
CABLE DESCRIPTION:______________________________________________
NO. COMMON CONNECTIONS
1 J1-01 J2-01
2 J1-02 J2-03
3 J1-03 J2-02
4 J1-04 J2-04 J2-20
A
B
D
C
E
F
SIGNATURE 1000M CABLE DOCUMENTATION
Section 9: Cable
Documentation
and Signatures