New wire was installed in these buildings during initial building construction or renovation. Due to time constraints, several other buildings will be wired after cutover. Within a few years, the buildings below will also have new wire. Until then, the existing wire in these buildings will be connected to the new telephone switch through new outside plant cable. At last count, Teknon had terminated over 5000 PIC's in Purdue's buildings.
Termination refers to the connection of wire to something, such as a piece of equipment.
Dual 4-pair Siamese cables are generally connected to PIC's. Telephone Services publishes this newsletter twice monthly. We want to thank Frank Arihood, Jim Cahoon, Stu Dye, Barb Jones, Tom Ketterer, Jeff Schwab, and Laddie Foster for information used in this newsletter.