About the HotWire 8600 DSLAM
The following illustration shows a
NOTE:
You may make cable connections from a DSL card directly to a Main Distribution Frame (MDF) or through a POTS splitter to an MDF, but not both.
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Central Office (CO)
HotWire
8200
IPC
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Customer Premises (CP)
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Legend: DSL - Digital Subscriber Line | RTU - Remote Termination Unit |
MDF - Main Distribution Frame | POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service |
IPC - Interworking Packet Concentrator | |
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October 1997 |
