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Nortel Networks HotWire 8600 User Manual

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About the HotWire 8600 DSLAM

1-2

8600-A2-GN20-20

October 1997

The following illustration shows a high-level view of a HotWire configuration:

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.

Legend: DSL - Digital Subscriber Line

RTU - Remote Termination Unit

MDF - Main Distribution Frame POTS - Plain Old Telephone Service

IPC - Interworking Packet Concentrator

*

Optional

DSL

CARD

DSLAM

Central Office (CO)

97-15674-01

Customer Premises (CP)

CO

Switch

Ethernet

RTU

*CP

POTS

Splitter

*CO

POTS

Splitter

MDF

POTS/DSL

HotWire

8200

IPC

Voice

Interface

Data

Interface

POTS

Network

Service

Provider