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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 23, 2006
Filed:
Jul. 30, 2003
Tom Bostoen, Brugge St. Andries, BE;
Thierry Pollet, Mechelen, BE;
Patrick Jan Maria Boets, Heffen, BE;
Leonard Pierre Van Biesen, Aalst, BE;
Tom Bostoen, Brugge St. Andries, BE;
Thierry Pollet, Mechelen, BE;
Patrick Jan Maria Boets, Heffen, BE;
Leonard Pierre Van Biesen, Aalst, BE;
Alcatel, Paris, FR;
Abstract
In the course of a reflectometry-based qualification procedure of a local loop, which connects customer premises to a central office of a telecommunication network, and in the event of being unable to identify the loop termination associated with the customer premises, a second reflectometry measurement of the local loop is carried out with a different impedance load at the customer premises. Next, the two reflectograms are compared with each other in the time domain in order to delineate among all the reflections those at the customer premises and to determine therefrom the position of the customer premises in the local loop.