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2-Mb/s Remote Peripheral Equipment Appendix 1 to 553-2741-200
Description
QCA146 RPE cabinet
The single-tier base QCA146 RPE 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. The
base cabinet can be expanded to a two- or three-tier cabinet by the
addition of RPE or PE expansion shelves.
Note: The expansion RPE shelf can only be added as the second
tier. The PE expansion shelf can be the second or third tier.
Expansion shelves
QSD74 RPE shelf
The QSD74 RPE shelf assembly can be mounted in a QCA146 RPE
cabinet at the remote location when additional loops are required. The
shelf is designed to contain all the RPE related circuit packs required to
operate three network loops. Included in the shelf assembly is a PE
shelf containing eight slots for lines and trunks. The QSD74 shelf can
also be used at the local end when the common equipment is housed in
a QCA136 or QCA141 CE cabinet as shown in Figure 1-1.
QSD66 PE expansion shelf
The QSD66 PE expansion shelf is used to expand a QCA146 RPE
cabinet to a two- or three-tier cabinet. The QSD66 is equipped with two
PE shelves each capable of accommodating eight line circuit packs and
one peripheral buffer circuit pack.
