AT&T 518-600-016 manual Wiring the System

Adding Jacks to the Jack Field

Connecting the Outside Lines to the Jack Field

●Cable termination tool. You need this tool to strip some of the jacket from the raw end of the 25-pair cable. If the connecting block on the 4-line adapter does not have two caps that automatically punch down wires when the cap is snapped onto the block, you also need a tool for punching down the wires. Some cable termination tools can do both.

●Green labels. These labels come with the installation kit for the apparatus boxes.

Follow these steps to acid jacks to the jack field:

1 Position the apparatus box so that the door with the handle is on the right and attach it to the top box in the rightmost column of boxes already in the jack field by meshing the tongues and grooves.

2 Use appropriate screws to attach the apparatus box to the mounting surface supporting the jack field.

3 Pull the two plastic caps off the connector on the adapter, and set the caps aside. You’ll need the caps again in step 4 of the next procedure.

4 Snap the 4-line adapter into the apparatus box so that the jacks on the adapter face to the right. If you have more than four outside lines, remove the two plastic caps from the second adapter and snap it into the box in the same way.

To connect outside lines to a jack field, follow these steps:

1 Attach the connector on the 25-pair cable to the 50-pin connector at the network interface.

2 Using the blade on the cable termination tool, slit the

jacket at the free end of the 25-pair cable, and cut away as much of the jacket as necessary to allow the individual twisted pairs of colored wires to reach the adapter(s) in the jack field.

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