Patent ID: 7076056

Claim:
A method of installing a first cable in a communications system, said first cable being a central office cable and including a plurality of different cable wire pairs, the method comprising: coupling a first end of a first cable including a plurality of different cable wire pairs to a bridge tap moderator including a plurality of electrically isolated termination networks, a different one of said electrically isolated termination networks being mounted across each of a plurality of pairs of bridge tap moderator terminals; coupling at a tap point a second end of the first cable to a second end of a second cable; disconnecting a first end of the second cable from a communications device to which it was coupled at the time said step of coupling a second end of the first cable to a second end of a second cable was performed; disconnecting the first end of the first cable from the bridge tap moderator; coupling the first end of the second cable including a plurality of different cable wire pairs to said bridge tap moderator; coupling the first end of the first cable to a communications device; disconnecting the second end of the second cable from said first cable; and disconnecting the first end of the second cable from said bridge tap moderator after disconnecting the second end of the second cable from said first cable.