Patent ID: 6466649
Filing Date: 2002-10-15
Classification: H04B,H04M

Abstract:
A method of automatically identifying the position of each of at least one energy reflection location along a telecommunication wireline comprising the steps of:(a) generating a plurality of waveforms having respectively different frequencies; (b) sequentially coupling each of the respectively different frequency waveforms generated in step (a), one at the time, to a first location of said telecommunication wireline; (c) for each of said plurality of respectively different frequency waveforms sequentially coupled to said telecommunication wireline in step (b), measuring a variation in signal level at said first location of said telecommunication wireline; and (d) performing frequency domain reflectometry (FDR) processing of variations in signal level as measured in step (c) for each of said plurality of respectively different frequency waveforms to determine the distance between said first location and said position of said at least one energy reflection location along said telecommunication wireline, and compensating said variation in signal level measured in step (c) for loss through said telecommunication wireline.