A method and an associated system for monitoring and instantly identifying
faults in a data communication cable are disclosed. A fault monitoring
program learns a reference data traffic pattern communicated through the
data communication cable by reading inputs from a sensor. The reference
data traffic pattern is stored and is used for determining normalcy of
data traffic through the data communication cable. The fault monitoring
program monitors for a fault in a data traffic, and, if a fault is
detected, activates a fault indicator sending out fault signals to notify
users of the fault. If the fault is not recovered within a predefined
recovery period, the fault monitoring program deactivates the fault
indicator and shuts down a power source for later use of the data
communication cable.