5 Essential Tools that Every Telecom Engineer should have on their bag

Being a Telecom Engineer and executing the task is itself a difficult job. Telecom Engineer should always be smart, diligent, sharp, active and problem solving beyond every new faces of problems. 

We should troubleshoot problems no matter what the problems is. 

I have listed top five tools that will help every Site or Telecom Engineer to solve majority of problems. 

1) RJ45 CAT5 Network LAN Crimper Tools, LAN Cable, LAN Tester and CAT-5 connectors:

Lan Crimper along with few(5-10m) LAN cable is very necessary. Few pieces of around 20 connectors will add a life in our task. We can now easily make new LAN cable and use it where we need. 

 We can now even check the existing lan cable faulty with our LAN tester and we can easily replace the existing LAN cable. We can use also use the same LAN cable for interfacing and commissioning new devices as required. So it has been a essential tools that we should not forget under any circumstance.

2) Screw Driver Set: Screw driver is general and multipurpose tools that every technicians and engineer should carry along with them. It accomplished different works.

 It can be used to open the different cards of BBU, RRU and even different Transmission Equipment's like CX, OSN, CISCO, Alcatel,etc. If you find it more bulgy and heavy, never miss the two set tools +/- in big and small size in your bag.

3. Tie Cutter with few Black and White cable tie: To clamp the cable in proper order, we need cable tie. Routing with proper tie makes the site and cables good looking.

Tools is simple but has great use while routing, fixing new and old cables in proper places. Generally Black tie is used at outdoor and white tie is used at indoor. 

4. Multimeter: No matter what new devices and equipment, whom with we play: 

Multimeter has its own remark in the Telecom Engineering. Most common, most versatile and most needed devices that every telecom engineer must posses. Power failure, short circuit, continuity test, current measurement, voltage measurement, resistance measurement,etc are done by multimeter. It has been a major tool for troubleshooting telecom equipment and devices.

5. Labels: Labels are need to show where the cable has been gone and where it ends. In BTS we can see large number of cables routed here and there. If we don't label the cables properly we may incorrectly plugged in and out of other cables and may risk in "site down". " Imagine- If it was a Hub site, then the whole city or region may go silent". The result is worse and even scary. So for proper labeling at both end, we must have either printed or hand written label. So we should always carry blank label in our bag so we can used it for temporary in case needed. 

We can see the labeling done at Fiber Cable , and thus we can easily know where it has been routed. 

I have listed major 5 tools above. Let me know other tools in the comment section below which I have not listed.