Connecting The Communication Server; Direct Connection; Indirect Connection - Mitel Aastra 470 System Manual

4. 6

Connecting the communication server

There are two possibilities for connection to the telephone network and the termi-
nal-side cabling:

• Direct connection

• Indirect cabling via (main) distribution frame and any universal building cable
installation (UBC) (see also
Fig. 29 Direct cabling (left) and indirect cabling (right)
On the front panel all the connections are made using RJ45 connectors.
4. 6. 1 Direct connection
Standard commercial cables are used to connect directly to the telephone net-
work. Details can be found in the Chapter
On terminal cards with 16 or more interfaces some or all of the RJ45 sockets are
multiply assigned. They can be split into individual RJ45 sockets using patch cables
and the fan-out-panel (see
4. 6. 2

Indirect connection

There are two possibilities for connecting the communication server indirectly to
the telephone network and terminal-side cabling:
• Connection via main distribution board
• Connection to a universal building cable installation (UBC)
Aastra 470 as of R3.2
syd-0337/1.6 – R3.2 – 09.2014
Fig. 32 and
NT1
Communica-
tion server
NT1
"Fan-out panel FOP", page
Fig. 33).
Communica-
tion server
NT1
NT1
(Main) distribution
"Network interfaces", page
150).
Installation
board
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