I work for a small private college located in Toronto, Canada. I teach Networking there and so got delegated to put in the network at our new campus. The location of the new campus was previously occupied by a bank, who used the Nordx/CDT IBDN system for their LAN & telecom. Wanting to have a "professional" network, as well as leveraging the existing infrastructure, I decided to do all 210+ LAN drops using the Nordx/CDT. In hindsight, I realize that I probably would have been better off to just use patch panels but no longer have that luxury. Everything seemed to go fine after hours upon hours of punching down, but now that I am doing end-to-end testing, I have approximately 25-30% of my LAN drops not working, which is a big problem. Using a LAN Cable tester, I find that with each of the problem ports there is one to two pins not showing up--even after punching them back down a second (and third time). I have been searching the web and can't find much, if any, documentation on how to properly troubleshoot this system so that I can identify, isolate, and resolve the issues. Considering that there are five points of contact from end-to-end, I am not able to readily determine which contact is giving me the problem. I have a place here in Toronto where I could rent an expensive test tool but am not sure which tool I would need (ie: Fluke Omniscanner 2, Agilent WireScope, etc). The college have classes scheduled and need the rooms/network to be fully functional, so I am running out of time. Any recommendations for how to approach the troubleshooting, what tools would best help in this situation, and/or pointing me to any documentation would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance!
Best regards,
Greg
Gregory Seaborn
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