Nortel Meridian Meridian 1 Technical manual

Option 11C Mini Planning and Installation Guide
Meridian 1
Option 11C Mini
Planning and Installation Guide
Document Number: 553-3021-209
Document status: Standard
Document Release: 1.00
Date: July 1999
Year Publish FCC TM
© 1999
All rights reserved
Printed in Canada
Information is subject to change without notice. Nortel Networks reserves the right to make changes in design
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, Meridian 1, and Option 11C are trademarks of Nortel Networks.

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July 1999 Issue 1.00, Standard.

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Contents
About this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Who should read this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
How this guide is organized . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Terminology used in this guide . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Related documents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Chapter 1 — Introducing the Option 11C Mini . . . 1
Option 11C Mini system description . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Installing software and configuring data . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Supported applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
System specifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
Data backup and restore methods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Repair facilities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Asia Pacific, Caribbean and Latin America, and North America . . 10
Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Chapter 2 — Identifying the Option 11C Mini
equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Main components of the Option 11C Mini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
NTDK91 Main Chassis
NTDK92 Chassis Expander . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
Power supply . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
Circuit cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
Telephones and Attendant Consoles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17
Cables and wires . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
Miscellaneous items for installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21

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Differences between Option 11C Mini and Option 11C . . . . . . . . . . . 22
Chapter 3 — System and site requirements . . . . 27
Environmental requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 27
Earthquake bracing requirements for chassis installed on a wall in a
vertical position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Grounding requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Grounding method . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Conduit requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Lightning protection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Commercial power requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
AC power installation for systems installed on a wall or table . . . . 37
AC power installation for systems installed in a rack/cabinet . . . . 37
Alternative AC-powered installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Auxiliary equipment power . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Modem requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Maintenance and administration terminals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
On-site access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Remote access . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Meridian Administration Tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Cross-connect terminal requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Chapter 4 — Creating an equipment layout plan and
a card slot assignment plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Equipment layout plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
General layout guidelines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
Equipment layout plan for installing the chassis on a wall horizontally
and vertically . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Equipment layout plan for installing the chassis on a table . . . . . . 55
Equipment layout plan for installing the chassis in a rack/cabinet . 57
Card slot assignments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Chapter 5 — Regulatory information . . . . . . . . . . 65
Notice for United States installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65

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Importance of Ringer Equivalence Number . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
Hearing aid compatibility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Notice for Canadian installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
Canada and United States Network connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
FCC compliance: registered equipment for Direct Inward Dial (DID)
calls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
Notice for international installations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Radio and TV interference . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Information for the United States . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Information for Canada . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70
Chapter 6 — Getting started installing the Option 11C
Mini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Tools checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Readiness checklist . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Summary of installation procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Chapter 7 — Important safety instructions . . . . . . 79
Symbols you must recognize . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
Safety instructions when installing telephone equipment . . . . . . . . . . 80
Safety instructions when using telephone equipment . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 8 — Installing a backboard for bracing
chassis against earthquakes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Method for earthquake bracing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 9 — Installing the chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Installing the chassis on a wall in a vertical position . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
Installing the chassis on a wall in a horizontal position . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
Installing the chassis on a table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
Installing the chassis in a 19 inch rack/cabinet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

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Items required . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
Chapter 10 — Connecting the Chassis Expander to
the Main Chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Chapter 11 – Installing the system ground . . . . . 117
Chassis powered by the same service panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Chassis powered by different service panels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
Grounding instructions for chassis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
Grounding multiple pieces of equipment in a rack/cabinet . . . . . . 122
Chapter 12 — Installing the circuit cards . . . . . . . 125
Circuit cards required for the Option 11C Mini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
NTDK97 Mini System Controller (MSC) card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
NTDK16 48-port Digital Line Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Optional circuit cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Digital Trunk cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
NT8D14 Universal Trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
NT8D15 E&M Trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
NT8D02 Digital Line Card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
NTAK02 SDI/DCH card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
NTAK03 TDS/DTR card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
NTAG26 XMFR card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
NT5K21 XMFC card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
NT1R20 Off-Premise Station (OPS) analog line card . . . . . . . . . . 143
Circuit cards used in Europe . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 147
NT5K50AA E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
NT5K72AA E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
NT5K83AB E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 154
NT5K83BA / NT5K83BB E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
NT5K83CB E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 156
NT5K83DB E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157
NT5K83FA E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
NT5K83GA E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
NT5K83HA E&M TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
NT5K02DA Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166

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NT5K02SA / NT5K96SA Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
NT5K96HA Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
NT5K96KA/NT5K02KA Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
NT5K96JB/NT5K02JB Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
NT5K96MB/NT5K02MB Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . 171
NT5K96NB/NT5K02NB Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
NT5K96TA/NT5K02TA Flexible analog line card . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
NT5K60AA/NT5K61AA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
NT5K70AB/NT5K71AB Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
NT5K82AA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
NT5K82HA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192
NT5K90AB / NT5K90BB Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . 195
NT5K99AA / NT5K99BA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . 196
NTAG03AA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
NTAG04AA Central Office/Direct Inward Dial trunk card . . . . . . 203
NTCK18AA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
NTCK93AB/NTCK93BB Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . 210
NTCK24AA Central Office trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
NT5K36AB Direct Inward Dial/Direct Outward Dial trunk card . . 213
NT5K84AA Direct Inward Dial trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
NTCK22AA Direct Inward Dial / TIE trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
NT5K84HA Direct Inward Dial trunk card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 222
NT5K48AA/BA/DA Tone Detector card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
Chapter 13 — Installing and connecting the
cross-connect terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
Terminal block requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
Installing the BIX cross-connect terminal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
Installing the Reichle Masari cross-connect terminal (Germany) . . . . 232
Installing the Krone Test Jack Frame for the UK . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
Connecting the cables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
Chapter 14 — Installing Power Failure Transfer
Units . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245
Installing the PFTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 245

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PFTU control lead signals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
Chapter 15 — Installing and connecting SDI and
ethernet ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 251
Modem setup requirements . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
Installing and connecting SDI ports . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
NTAK02 SDI/DCH card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
NTAK03 TDS/DTR card . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
Terminal setup . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
Installing and connecting an ethernet cable . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
Chapter 16 — Starting the Option 11C Mini and
installing software . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Starting the Option 11C Mini . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 269
Start-up procedures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 270
Software Installation Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Starting the program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Function selection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272
Keycodes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 273
Feature set and ISM parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Security Device . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
AUX ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Customer database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 274
Installing software in a new system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Summary of steps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275
Chapter 17 — Connecting the telephones . . . . . . 289
Cross connecting telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 290
Connecting telephones without a PFTU . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 292
Connecting analog (500/2500-type) telephones with a PFTU . . . . . . . 293
Connecting off-premise telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 294
Connecting an Attendant Console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 296
Cross-connecting terminal Digital Subscriber Loops . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303
Activating telephones . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 303