Nortel Meridian 1 Succession 1000M Installation And Configuration Manual page 360

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Bus
Card cage
CE/PE
CEC
Central Office (CO)
Central Processing Unit (CPU)
Circuit cards
CMA
CMDU
cCNI
Common Equipment (CE)
553-3021-210 Standard 1.00
List of terms
A copper bar, plate, or conductor
A frame for holding circuit cards in a module; also called a card chassis
Common Equipment/Peripheral Equipment
Canadian Electrical Code
The site where a telephone company terminates customer lines and houses the
switching equipment that interconnects those lines
The main portion of a computer that contains the primary storage, arithmetic
and logic units, and the control unit (can also mean a mainframe computer)
Circuit cards carry the electronics for particular functions (such as memory
and switching functions). Most cards are housed in the card cage in a module
and connect to the backplane. Some cards must be installed in dedicated slots
in a card cage. (Also called circuit packs or boards.)
Changeover and Memory Arbitrator
Core Multi-Drive Unit
Compact Core to Network Interface
A hardware subsystem that houses one or more CPUs, memory cards, disk
drive units, and service cards
October 2003