outside plant

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Definition of outside plant in English English dictionary

Outside Plant refers to the telephone equipment located physically outside of the telephone building itself such as cables, fiber optic facilities, and supporting structures It does no include microwave towers, repeaters, etc

  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 (188)

Cabling, equipment, or structures that are out of doors

Telephone plant (such as poles, conduits, cables and hardware) which is outside of the telephone building

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

Hyphenation

out·side plant

Turkish pronunciation

autsayd plänt

Pronunciation

/ˈoutˈsīd ˈplant/ /ˈaʊtˈsaɪd ˈplænt/