Q: Is there a video on how to lace and tie knots when installing cables?

Virgil Lyke

World Wide Technology Inc.

St. Louis

A: OK, I am stumped. The last time I saw a "how-to" on cable lacing, I was in the U.S. Army Signal Corps training at Fort Monmouth, NJ, in 1975, and we were using Federal Information Processing Standards documents as reference material. Has anyone seen a video on cable lacing?

Donna Ballast is a communications analyst at the University of Texas at Austin and a BICSI registered communications distribution designer (RCDD). Questions can be sent to her at Cabling Installation & Maintenance or at PO Drawer 7580, the University of Texas, Austin, TX 78713; tel: (512) 471-0112, fax: (512) 471-8883, e-mail: [email protected].