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Copper Loop Management in a Digital Environment: Migration from an Analog to a Digital Local-Loop Network
PDF of this tutorial5. Loop Management Success in the Digital World
The race to deliver a new generation of services over the local loop is on. Service providers are investing in DSL technologies to increase bandwidth to subscribers and enable high-speed data and other value-added communication services. To successfully deploy and manage the new broadband digital local loop, service providers need tools that can remotely accomplish the following tasks:
- qualify the local loop to verify suitability for delivery of DSL services
- generate audible loop identification signals to aid service installation
- provide metallic access in the network and analyze broadband signals to aid troubleshooting and fault isolation
- provide metallic line switching for access equipment failover
- provide metallic line switching for service changes
- integrate loop management into the OSS environment to manage and deliver service efficiently
Today’s reliance on troubleshooting on-site with tools optimized for narrowband analog telephony cannot meet the service provider’s need to quickly and efficiently deploy and manage the emerging broadband digital local-loop network.
