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at the Telcodemarc, the CSU, or other T1 carrier equipment. The T1 CPE
equipment at the far end has transmit and receive wired straight from the
RJ48 demarc at the far end of the carrier facility.
External alarm connections
P3 connector pins 3, 4, and 28 can be plugged into any external alarm
hardware. Plug the male DB9 connector labeled "P3" into the external
alarm. These connections are optional, and the functionality of the Lineside
T1 card is not affected if they are not made.
The MMI (described in detail in "QPC43 Peripheral Signaling card" (page
104)) monitors the T1 link for specified performancecr iteria and reports
on problems detected.
One of the ways it can report information is through this external alarm
connection. If connected, the Lineside T1 card’s microprocessor activates
the external alarm hardware if it detects certain T1 link problems that it has
classified as alarm levels 1 or 2. See "QPC43 Peripheral Signaling card"
(page 104) for a detailed description of alarm levels and configuration. If
an alarm level 1 or 2 is detected by MMI, the Lineside T1card closes the
contact that is normally open, and opens the contact that is normally closed.
The MMI command Clear Alarm returns the alarm contacts to their normal
state.
MMI connections
P5 connector pins 2, 3, 5, 7 and 9 are used to connect the Lineside T1
card to the MMI terminal and daisy chain Lineside T1 cards together for
access to a shared MMI terminal. When logging into a Lineside T1 card,
"control 2" is asserted by that card, which informs all of the other cards not
to talk on the bus, but rather to pass the data straightthrough. The pins
labeled "control 1" are reserved for future use. As with the external alarm
connections, MMI connections are optional. Up to 128 Lineside T1 cards,
located in up to 16 separate IPE shelves, can be linkedto one MMI ter minal
using the daisy chaining approach.
If only one Lineside T1 card is being installed, cable from the DB9 female
connector labeled "P5" (towards MMI terminal) to one of the COM ports
on the back of any TTY,a PC running a terminal emulation program, or a
modem. For installations of only one card, no connection is made to the
DB9 male connector labeled "P4" (away from MMI terminal).
If two or more Lineside T1 cards are being installed into the system, the
MMI port connections can be daisy-chained together so that only one
MMI terminal is required for up to 128 Lineside T1 cards. See Figure 36
"Lineside T1 card - connecting two or more cards to the MMI" (page 211).
Cards can be located in up to 16 separate IPE shelves. Any card slot in the
IPE shelf can be connected to any other card slot; the card slots connected
together do not need to be consecutive.
Nortel Communication Server 1000
Circuit Card Reference
NN43001-311 01.04 Standard
Release 5.0 23May 2008
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