Monitoring equipment for cables

An apparatus comprising a pod, the pod comprising:

• a magnetic core configurable around and inductively couplable to a cable having an electrically conductive portion;
• one or more coils inductively couplable to the magnetic core;
• and
• a controller connected to the one or more coils, wherein:
• the pod is configured to transmit one or more outgoing electrical signals on the conductive portion of the cable by the controller electrically energizing a transmitter coil of the one or more coils such that outgoing magnetic energy is induced in the magnetic core such that the one or more outgoing electrical signals are induced in the conductive portion of the cable;
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• the pod is configured to repeat one or more incoming electrical signals on the conductive portion of the cable by the one or more incoming electrical signals inducing incoming magnetic energy in the magnetic core such that incoming electrical energy is induced in a receiver coil of the one or more coils, wherein the controller responds to the incoming electrical energy by electrically energizing the transmitter coil such that outgoing magnetic energy is induced in the magnetic core such that the one or more incoming electrical signals are inductively repeated in the conductive portion of the cable.