Alien crosstalk suppression with enhanced patch cord
AssigneePanduit Corp.
InventorsRonald Nordin, David Hawkins, Michael Doorhy, Jack Tison, Andrew Stroede, Masud Bolouri-Saransar, Scott Hartman
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Abstract
Systems and methods for decreasing alien crosstalk use enhanced patch cords for introducing additional attenuation. The enhanced patch cords are preferably shielded to reduce alien crosstalk down their lengths and also attenuate signals passing therethrough to a greater extent than standard communication patch cords. The interaction of two enhanced patch cords results in two suppression steps for alien crosstalk and only one suppression step for intended signal passing through a communication cable.
Claims3
A system for reducing alien crosstalk in a communication network comprising:
- a first communication cable connected via a first enhanced patch cord to a first network device, said first enhanced patch cord being an attenuating patch cord adapted to attenuate signals propagating through said enhanced patch cord to a greater degree than the attenuation in said first communication cable;
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- a second communication cable connected via a second enhanced patch cord to a second network device, said second enhanced patch cord being an attenuating patch cord adapted to attenuate signals propagating through said enhanced patch cord to a greater degree than the attenuation in said second communication cable.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.