Total Access 5000 Business Services Deployment Guide
O-4 65K510DEP08-1A
Remote Loopback
AremoteloopbacktransmitsaFarEndLoop‐upcodeviatheFEACchannelintheDS3
moduletotheNetVanta873,whichrespondsbysetting‐upalineloopbacktowardstheDS3
cardintheTotalAccess5000.AftertheNetVanta873DS3portislooped‐up,BitErrorRate
Test(BERT)patternscanbesentfromtheDS3cardtotesttheintegrityoftheDS3circuit.
DS3BERTpatternscanbesentfromexternaltestequipment.Forexample,
theintegratedBERTintheDS3EFMmoduleortheNetVanta873canbeused
inplaceofanexternalDS3testset.
TheRemoteLoopbackrequestonlyworksintheC‐Bitframingmode.
Figure O-3. Remote Loopback Diagram
Remote Loopback
DS-3 Facility
NetVanta 873
Framer
DS-3 Facility
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Framer