Meridian America Link/Customer Controlled Routing manual Meridian Link/CCR hardware, IPE Module

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Chapter 4: Meridian Link/CCR hardware

Meridian Link and CCR hardware consists of either an IPE Module or an Application Module. This chapter describes both of these modules.

Note: If you require a redundant Meridian Link, an additional

Meridian Link Module (either an IPE Module or an Application

Module) must be installed.

Both the IPE Module and the Application Module use a base operating system (BOS), which supports Meridian Link and CCR. BOS is release 3 version 7.1 of UNIX System V for 68000-family CPUs. For advanced users who need more information, BOS provides operating system information in the form of online manual (MAN) pages.

IPE Module

The IPE Module can be installed in a MeridianÊ1 Option 11 main cabinet or expansion cabinet, or in a Meridian 1 Options 21Ð81 IPE shelf.

In a Meridian 1 Option 11 system, the IPE Module occupies three consecutive slots in the main cabinet (Figure 6) or expansion cabinet (Figure 7). Those three slots must not include slot 1 (reserved for the SDI/TDS [NTAK03AA] card) or slots 10Ð12 in the main cabinet (reserved for Meridian Mail).

Power for the IPE Module comes from the cabinetÕs IPE backplane and consists of +5 V and Ð48 V.

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