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TYPE="CITE">HA! I designed a 672 channel telephone SLIC system (analog phone
to T1). Each channel had 6 <BR>Aromat relays (3 for line, 3 for remote
testing). That's 4032 per rack. The average central <BR>office had 64 racks
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<DIV><BR><BR>Funny, I thought these were usually used in outside plant
enclosures, the 5 foot wide white boxes, for doing pair gain out miles away
from the CO instead of running lots of copper. <BR><BR>-</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook">You need them at *both ends*
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook">SLC-96 and DMS-100 are typical pair-gain
channel banks.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face="Century Schoolbook">Paul S.</FONT></DIV>
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