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In telecommunication, the term outside plant has the following meanings:

1. In telephony, all cables, conduits, ducts, poles, towers, repeaters, repeater huts, and other equipment located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching facility or customer premises.

Note: The demarcation point may be at a distribution frame, cable head, or microwave transmitter.

2. In DOD communications, the portion of intrabase communications equipment between the main distribution frame (MDF) and a user end instrument or the terminal connection for a user instrument.

Source: from Federal Standard 1037CFederal Standard 1037C entitled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a U. Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended. This docu and from MIL-STD-188MIL-STD-188 is a series of U. military standards relating to telecommunications. Documents 100 Common Long Haul and Tactical Communication System Technical Standards. 105 Interoperability and Performance Standards for the All Digital Tactical-To-Strategic





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