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. GTE has completed 95 percent of their splicing of outside copper cable. They will begin splicing fiber optic cable around the first of October. At last count, Teknon had terminated over 6000 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, Stu Dye, Tom Ketterer, Jeff Schwab, and Laddie Foster for information used in this newsletter.