Nortel Meridian Meridian 1 Operating and installation instructions

Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface Description, installation, and maintenance
Meridian 1
Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface
Description, installation, and maintenance
Document Number: 553-3001-022
Document Release: Standard 3.00
Date: April 2000
Year Publish FCC TM
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or components as progress in engineering and manufacturing may warrant. This equipment has been tested
and found to comply with the limits for a Class A digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC rules, and the
radio interference regulations of Industry Canada. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection
against harmful interference when the equipment is operated in a commercial environment. This equipment
generates, uses and can radiate radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in accordance with the
instruction manual, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause harmful interference in which case the user will be required to correct the
interference at their own expense.
SL-1 and Meridian 1 are trademarks of Nortel Networks.

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Revision history
April 2000 Standard 3.00. This is a global document and is up-issued for X11 Release
25.0x. Document changes include removal of: redundant content; references
to equipment types except Options 11C, 51C, 61C, and 81C; and references
to previous software releases.
August 1996 Standard 2.00.Incorporatedchangestotext, cabling,andincludedconnection
diagrams.
April 1996 Standard 1.00.

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Contents
About this document . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Product description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
System description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Engineering guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Installation and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Quick reference to system installation and configuration . . . . . . . . . . 41
Installation overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Preinstallation preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Meridian 1 and fiber-optic equipment installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Remote IPE installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Configuring the equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Configuring the Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface unit . . . . . . . . . . . 98
Remote IPE acceptance testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Acceptance testing overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
Checking the system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
Setting up test conditions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Performing acceptance testing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Remote IPE maintenance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
Maintenance overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121

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Diagnostic tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
Remote IPE fault isolation and correction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
Replacing Remote IPE equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
Appendix: Peripheral Controller HEX
codes and cable connection diagrams . . . . . . . . 161
Peripheral Controller hexadecimal codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface units connection diagrams . . . . . . 163
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169

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About this document
This document is a global document. Contact your system supplier or your
Nortel Networks representative to verify that the hardware and software
described is supported in your area.
This document is a supplement to Meridian 1 NTPs. It provides information
specificto theMeridian 1 implementation offiber-optic links thatconnect the
Meridian 1 system to multiple Remote IPE modules using a pair of Fiber
Remote Multi-IPE Interface units.
It describes the operation of theFiber RemoteMulti-IPE Interface equipment
and provides specific information on how to install and maintain this
equipment as an integral part of the Meridian 1 system. Fiber Remote
Multi-IPE Interface configuration procedures are identical to the equivalent
non-fiber equipment in Meridian 1. However, there are some additional
software commands that can be executed using the Man-Machine Interface
(MMI) terminal to specifically control fiber-optic equipment.
The following describes what you will find in this document:
Product description describes the Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface
functional and physical characteristics, general engineering guidelines, and
planning and ordering information.
Installation and configuration explains how to prepare the site, how to
install and connect the Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface equipment at
Meridian 1 and Remote IPE sites, and how to configure the system using the
Man-Machine Interface (MMI) terminal.
Acceptance testing describes how to perform functional tests to verify that
the installed Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface units are operating correctly.

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Maintenance describes how to perform routine administrative and
maintenance functions and how to troubleshoot the Fiber Remote Multi-IPE
Interface equipment and the fiber-optic link connections. It explains how to
isolate problems, fix or replace defective equipment, and verify that the
equipment is operating correctly after corrections or replacements have been
made.
Appendix lists messages generated by the Peripheral Controller in the
Remote IPE equipment. These messages indicate the status of the Peripheral
Controller card. It also includes connection diagrams for local and remote
sites.
This document provides detailed information on how to install, configure,
and maintain the Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface equipment. However, it
also refers to various Meridian 1 NTPs that contain additional information,
which may be required when installing and maintaining the Fiber Remote
Multi-IPE Interface and Remote IPE equipment as an integral part of the
Meridian 1 system.
Reference
The following is a list of documents that are referred to in this document for
additional information:
—Meridian 1 installation planning (553-3001-120)
—Meridian 1 system engineering (553-3001-151)
—Meridian 1 power engineering (553-3001-152)
—Meridian 1 system installation procedures (553-3001-210)
—X11 features and services (553-3001-306)
—X11 input/output guide (553-3001-311)
—Traffic measurement formats and output (553-2001-450)

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Product description
This chapter describes FiberRemote Multi-IPE Interface, its architecture, and
its hardware options.
It also describes how to plan and engineer a fiber-optic link that connects the
local and the remote Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface units
System overview
Meridian 1 is a Private Branch Exchange (PBX) that links local subscribers
to private and public networks and provides a large number of subscriber
functions and features.
In addition to supporting local subscribers, Meridian 1 can be configured
using Remote IPE modules as a distributed system that supports remote
subscribers. The Remote IPE modules are connected to Meridian 1 at long
distances using fiber-optic links at transmission speed at 45 Mbps.
The Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface is compatible withMeridian 1 system
Options 51C, 61C, and 81C.
Subscriber connections at local Meridian 1 IPE modules are the same as the
Remote IPEmodules. The subscriber functions and features at the Meridian 1
are also the same as for the Remote IPE site.
This document focuses on the Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface equipment
specifically designed to provide fiber-optic links between the network
functions in Meridian 1 and the peripheral controller functions in the Remote
IPE. It also describes how and where to install and how to configure the
Superloop Network and Peripheral Controller cards that support the Remote
IPE application.

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Figure 1 illustrates the Meridian 1 system and the application of the Fiber
Remote Multi-IPE Interface and the fiber-optic link to connect the Remote
IPE site with the Meridian 1 local site.
System description
The Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface links Meridian 1 with one or more
Remote IPE sites to provide Meridian 1 functionality to these Remote IPE
sites. Each Remote IPE shares Meridian 1 common and network equipment
to provide the same functions and features to remote subscribers that are
available to local Meridian 1 subscribers.
Figure 1
Meridian 1 to Remote IPE connection over the fiber-optic link
Remote IPE
Remote site
Meridian 1
Local site
1-4 Superloops 1-4 Superloops
System Monitor
Cable (J5 toJ5)
SDI Cable
System Monitor
Cable (J5 toJ6) Terminal
Modem Modem
Terminal
Fiber Remote Multi-IPE Interface units
Fiber-optic
Link
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Meridian 1
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