How to Terminate a 25 Pair 1A Distribution Connector - The TSOC™ Minute (ep. 17)

[@jimdandy9671]

Carried a Bix termination tool in my kit for more than 30 years, don't think it was ever used.

[@brianjohnston9822]

I still have mine after being retired for almost 20 years. Still use it occasionally. I even still have my 66 block termination tool. I also remember the wire wrap and soldering method. Like some said, do we still even support BIX since Nortel fell. I still see it being used in older installations, it is not cost effective to switch out existing cable plants.

[@helmanfrow]

BIX is a great system. I'm installing it in my home reno. Obscure though it may be, the modules and frames are still readily available where I live (north Toronto suburbs). I find 110 to be klunky. I'd use Krone but it's hard to get here.

[@James_Knott]

I have both BIX and 110 punches in mine. While the 110 gets used regularly, thanks to Ethernet cables and Keystone connectors, it's been many years since I've punched a BIX strip and I've only worked with a 110 strip once. It's also been many, many years since I worked on solder or wire wrap blocks.

[@helmanfrow]

The voiceover + script + music together are surreal and kinda creepy. 😂

[@williebrown4266]

Cat3 ?

[@James_Knott]

BIX was commonly used for CAT3, but according to Wikipedia, it's rated for CAT5e. However, I don't know that I'd use it for Gb Ethernet.

[@James_Knott]

You really don't have to cut the wires where scored. The excess wire will be cut off when you punch down the wires. Also, leave enough slack, so that the strip can be pulled out of the frame, after the wires have been punched down. I like to punch twice, to ensure a solid connection and a full cut of the wire & insulation.

[@codybartell7166]

does the 25 pair cable with the colored ribbons in it have a particular name

[@lohphat]

Who uses BIX (vs 110 or Krone) anymore now that Nortel is dead?

[@barrymorrisss]

Every office in town!!

[@James_Knott]

BIX is still commonly used. The line was bought by Belden, IIRC. However, with the trend to IP & Ethernet, it's not used as much.

[@brianjohnston9822]

Messy work, I have terminated a lot of cable in my years, I guess standards have changed over the years. The outer insulation should have been trimmed neatly with lineman scissors. We typically would separate the wires by colour code all the way back to the outer insulation giving it a neater lay down. We have come a long way since the days of lacing cables and wires down with waxed lacing cord.

[@fubarsnafu4994]

Your talking many years ago. We're you on the frame?

[@brianjohnston9822]

@@fubarsnafu4994 every where, internal plants exterior installations, user consumer end point. And plant supervisor. I watch a local lineman install a new phone line in my apartment building, the wire closet was a rats nest of wires. Old wires never get pulled, the new concept, get, in, install, test, and get out and head to the new job. Not like the old days.

[@fubarsnafu4994]

@@brianjohnston9822 dropped and terminated a ton of cable over the years. 100 pair was common but 1500 over head multicore. Usually 1500pr + 4 or 6 fiber and a few cat5 in the jacket for good measure.. If I would have used gel chicklets or 3m snap locks. Flat out would have been looking for a job. Overhead and direct burials are a process. Long and tedious but necessary. As I watched. I was thinking a step ahead of them and they pulled out the chicklets. I was like No no no nooooo! That entire phone switch has a loud annoyance of a Hummmmmmmmmmmmmmm. Thats never gonna be fixed. ✌

[@helmanfrow]

@@fubarsnafu4994 By chicklets do you mean 3M Scotchlok connectors? Why would you have been fired for splicing a cable? What would you use instead? Why would they induce hum?

[@fubarsnafu4994]

@@helmanfrow chiklets are the white n blue gel filled crimps for telecom low volt

[@garryrobertson6724]

What this video doesn't show you is to leave a loop behind the strip or you will have all kinds of difficulty add other strips later...especially after adding jumpers.

[@fubarsnafu4994]

I still have at least 20 good pair of scissor.

[@Falco45able]

81’s when I was a faultsman jointer ! Some people will know what I mean😉🇬🇧

[@robertkat]

Not done any more, fiber rules.

[@James_Knott]

There's still a lot of copper going in. A few months ago, I was working in one of the offices of my ISP/cable/cell company and I was working with both CAT5 and fibre.

[@barrymorrisss]

This video reminds me of the Bell phone system guides. Written by engineers, and not all that clear.

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