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Select the card slots

To install ISDN BRI cards, perform the following steps:

1Identify all the slots that can contain them. First identify the modules with unused network and peripheral card slots and then remove the covers from the identified modules. To identify the modules, use the following Print Programs. Table 1 lists the modules that can house ISDN BRI cards.

LD 22 to print the system configuration and identify unused network card slots to install MISPs

LD 20 to list unused IPE card slots to install SILCs, UILCs and BRSCs

Table 1

ISDN BRI card location

 

Supported

SILCs,

 

Modules

UILCs,

MISPs

Systems

 

BRSCs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NT5D21

51C, 61C,

Network

Core/Network Module

81C

 

slots

 

 

 

0-7

NT8D35

81C

Network

Network Module

 

 

slots

 

 

 

5-12

NT8D37

All systems

IPE slots

IPE Module

 

0-15

 

 

 

 

 

2Locate the card slots in the Meridian 1 modules which can house ISDN BRI cards. Group all SILCs, UILCs, BRSCs, superloops and the MISP that supports them in the same network group to avoid using junctors for dedicated connections.

The following rules apply when selecting the card slots:

ISDN Basic Rate Interface Installation

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Nortel Networks 553-3901-200 Select the card slots, To install Isdn BRI cards, perform the following steps

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