Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing manual

Chapter 9: Meridian Link/CCR interface cabling 187

Backplane cable rerouting for the NT8D11 CE/PE Module backplane

In the standard seven-cable configuration for the NT8D11 CE/PE backplane (Figure 49), cables from connector ports D, G, and L are not used. Those cables are used in the ten-cable fully expanded configuration.

Figure 49

NT8D11 backplane cable designations (standard configuration)

Peripheral equipment slots

Common equipment slots

L9 L8 L7 L6 L5 L4 L3 L2 L1 L0

C9 C8 C7 C6 C5 C4 C3 C2 C1 C0

1

K-2

H-3

H-1

F-2

E-3

E-1

C-2

B-3

B-1

A-1

2

K-3

K-1

H-2

F-3

F-1

E-2

C-3

C-1

B-2

A-2

3

A-3

Shroud Row

Note: The first PE slot is already fully cabled for 24 pairs, so no change is required for that slot.

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