Patent ID: 8073136

Claim:
A method of determining the amount of alien crosstalk on a jack, the method comprising the steps of: providing a victim jack including a first victim conductive pair; providing a disturber jack adjacent to the victim jack, the disturber jack including a first disturber conductive pair and a second disturber conductive pair; providing a network analyzer including a transmitter coupled to the first and second disturber conductive pairs and a receiver coupled to the first victim conductive pair; transmitting a test signal to the first disturber conductive pair through the network analyzer and measuring the alien crosstalk induced on the first victim conductive pair by the first disturber conductive pair; transmitting a test signal to the second disturber conductive pair through the network analyzer and measuring the alien crosstalk induced on the first victim conductive pair by the second disturber conductive pair; and aggregating the measurements to determine a sum alien crosstalk on the first victim conductive pair.