In
telecommunications
Telecommunication, often used in its plural form or abbreviated as telecom, is the transmission of information over a distance using electronic means, typically through cables, radio waves, or other communication technologies. These means of ...
, a remote digital terminal (RDT) typically accepts
E1,
T1 or
OC-3 digital lines to communicate with a telephone
Access network (AN) or
telephone exchange (Local Digital Switch, LDS) on one side, and forms a
local exchange (LE) on the other, which is connected to "plain old telephone service" (
POTS) lines.
See also
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Distributed switching
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Remote concentrator
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Digital access carrier system
References
Local loop
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