Patent ID: 9621262
Date: 2017-04-11
CPC Classifications: H04B

Claim:
1. A cabling system that provides continuous transport of data as well as testing, said system comprising: a cable including two data transmission channels; a plurality of transceivers, including first and second transceivers at respective opposite ends of said cable connected to said data transmission channels, at least one of said plurality of transceivers functionally capable of both a data transmission mode and a test or audit mode; said at least one of said plurality of transceivers operable to periodically alternate between a first operational mode characterized by data transmission on one of said data transmission channels and testing or auditing the other of said data transmission channels, and a second operational mode characterized by data transmission on the other of said data transmission channels and testing or auditing the one of said data transmission channels; whereby at all times at least one of said data transmission channels is available for data transmission; and wherein at least one of said plurality of transceivers is selectively placed at a pre-arranged point on the network to permit testing data transmission and communications between multiple pairs of said plurality of transceivers throughout the network.