US 5,970,136 A · IDSN capacity expansion for remote terminal sites

Abstract

A method and apparatus for increasing the capacity of a remote terminal cabinet and providing customer premise service interfaces to the remote cabinet which otherwise has insufficient additional physical slots to support such interfaces is described. The method features removing any protective covering from a space previously designated for but lacking a protection block equipment and installing in the space interface equipment. The installation includes securing the equipment physically in place and connecting the equipment for communications with a distribution service, such as T1 carrier service, at a first interface and a plurality of customer premise service interfaces, such as ISDN BRI interfaces, to customer premises lines at a second interface. The remainder of the remote cabinet communications is left unaffected.

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Dependent claims

A method for increasing the capacity of a remote terminal cabinet for providing an interface to customer premise services comprising:

identifying, in said remote terminal cabinet, a space previously designated and lacking protection block equipment,
installing in said space customer premise service interface equipment, including securing said equipment physically in place and connecting said equipment for communication with a distribution service on a first communications interface and a plurality of customer premise services at a second communications interface, and
leaving any other preexisting remote cabinet communications unaffected.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

IDSN capacity expansion for remote terminal sites

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IDSN capacity expansion for remote terminal sites

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Abstract

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