I worked on 2 3600 pair paper cables recently.
The paper is much worse than the high pair count.
We labelled 100 pair super groups 1-36 with marking tape that said group 1, 2 3... 36.
Then we labelled 25 pair groups within those groups 1-4 with colored zip ties, blue orange green brown.
Some of the counts were filed within the super group! That was fun. Somewhere before our splice someone didnt keep the 25 pair groups straight and spliced the 100 pairs wild. This made pair tagging more annoying later.
Our new cables were pic. We did the far end and brought it to the paper already half tapped in. We saved time by sending our own tone through using the half tap.
So we put the new 25 preteriminated plastic 25 pair in our splicing head with a fresh module on top, then we would send tone out on the paper, just grabbing whatever pair in our group was on top. Then we would find the tone in our head, snip the paper and transfer it in.
We were getting 100 pairs done per 8 hour day, which was more like 4 hours of splicing.
