Lucent Technologies 555-230-024 Single-Carrier Cabinets

Carriers and Cabinets
Issue 5 January 1998 1-9555-230-024
Single-Carrier Cabinets
Figure 1-4 shows a typical single-carrier cabinet.
Figure 1-4. Typical Single-Carrier Cabinet
A maximum of four single-carrier cabinets can be stacked on top o f each other to
form a single Processor Port Network or Expansion Port Network. There are fou r
types of single-carrier cabinets:
■Control cabinet (located in the Processor Port Network only), w hich
contains ports, a control complex (for call processing), and an optional
interface to a duplicated control cabinet.
■Duplicated control cabinet (optional and located only in the Processor Port
Network), which contains a duplicated control complex, ports, and an
interface to an expansion control cabinet.
■Expansion control cabinet (optional and located o nly in an Expansion Port
Network), which contains ports, a tone-clock, an interface to a Proces sor
Port Network cabinet, and a maintenance interface.
■Port cabinet (located in the Processor Port Network and in Expansion Port
Networks), which contains ports and an interface to an expa nsion control
cabinet.