Meridian SuperNode MSL-100 Intelligent Peripheral Equipment (IPE) Reference Manual MSL14
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About this document
When to use this document
This book describes Intelligent Peripheral Equipment (IPE). Included is
information on the IPE hardware, provisioning an Intelligent Peripheral
Equipment Column (IPEC), cabling and environmental specifications, feature
implementation, logs, software and hardware maintenance and diagnostics,
and operational measurements (OMs). This document is part of the
documentation package that supports Nortel Networks Meridian SL-100
products.
How this document is organized
This document is divided into the following chapters:
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Chapter 1, “IPE product overview", gives a brief description of the
Intelligent Peripheral Equipment (IPE), and Intelligent Peripheral
Equipment Column (IPEC). This includes a list of required software and
descriptions of the XSM, the controller card interfaces, and the telephones
that are supported by IPE.
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Chapter 2, “IPE architecture", lists, describes, and illustrates the hardware
included in the IPEC and in the pedestal base.
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Chapter 3, “Provisioning an IPEC", describes the cabinet lineup and IPE
used in Remote Switching Centers (RSCs).
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Chapter 4, “Cabling specifications", describes the external and internal
power cable requirements, the Extended System Monitor (XSM) alarm
cable requirements, the switchboard cabling requirements, the ground
cabling, and the cabling cardcage modules to the cross-connect terminal.
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Chapter 5, “Environmental specifications", describes requirements relating
to the ambient temperature, the relative humidity, the power specifications,
the heat dissipation, and the weights and dimensions.
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Chapter 6, “Feature implementation", describes how to download the IPE
software, the controller card message translation, the system initialization
functions, the attendant console feature implementation, the Integrated
Voice and Data (IVD) feature implementation, the 500/2500 analog feature
