System Hardware Engineering - Nortel Meridian 1 Description, Installation, And Maintenance

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System hardware engineering

System compatibility
553-3001-359 Standard 1.00 October 2003
MIVS comes in port-size options of 2, 4, and 8 ports. Each card requires one
slot in an IPE shelf or a Small System cabinet. Table 2 lists recommended
port-size options for various facility sizes that MIVS must serve.
Table 2
Recommended port-size option for various facility sizes
Size of facility
1–200 rooms
201–500 rooms
501–1000 rooms
MIVS is supported on all systems.
Table 3 lists the system modules and the card slots suitable for MIVS
installation.
Table 3
MIVS installation into card slots in different IPE modules
System modules
NT8D11BC/ED CE/PE modules
NT8D37AA/BA/DC/EC
modules
NT8D11AC/DC CE/PE modules
a. The NT8D37 BAA/BA/DC/EC IPE module is connected using 12 cables, so that the
cabling of this shelf requires the use of only slots 0, 4, 8, and 12.
When slot 0, 4, 8, or 12 is used, you cannot use the port in the next slot.
Any card that is in the next slot, that is, slot 1, 5, 9, or 13, cannot use the first half of its
slots.
The maximum number of MIVS cards per system is one.
Recommended number of ports
MIVS card slots
All available IPE card slots.
a
IPE Slots 0, 4, 8, and 12
Slot 0
2
4
8