Description; Remote Peripheral Equipment (Rpe); Qca144 Rpe Cabinet; Expansion Shelves - Northern Telecom Meridian SL-1 Installation Manual

1. Description

Remote peripheral equipment (RPE)

QCA144 RPE cabinet

Expansion shelves

A description of the use and operation of RPE is given in 553-2601-
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200.
This appendix describes the installation, connections and testing of
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RPE installed in a QCA144 RPE cabinet and in a QSD69 RPE shelf
mounted in a cabinet either at the remote end or the local end.
The QCA144 RPE cabinet is used to house RPE equipment at a
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remote location. The single-tier base cabinet is equipped with an RPE shelf,
one PE shelf capable of accommodating ten PE line packs and a peripheral
buffer circuit pack, and the required power equipment ( Fig. 1-1). The base
cabinet can be expanded to a two- or three-tier cabinet by the addition of
one RPE or two PE expansion shelves. An RPE shelf can be installed in
place of a PE expansion shelf if additional network loops are required.
1.04 QSD69 RPE shelf.
at the Main Meridian SL-1 location in a QCA136 or QCA141 CE
equipment cabinet (Fig. 1-2) or in a QCA144 RPE cabinet at the remote
location. The RPE shelf assembly is designed to contain all the RPE related
circuit packs required to operate two network loops. Included in the shelf
assembly is a dual loop PE shelf containing eight slots for lines and trunks.
One additional slot is reserved for a dual loop peripheral buffer circuit pack.
The QSD69 RPE shelf assembly can be mounted
Appendix 1 to 553-2601-200
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