In telephone communications, a technology that increases the number of channels in the local loop by converting analog signals to digital and multiplexing them back to the end office. Digital loop ...

As the telecom infrastructure evolves from circuit-switched to packet-switched architectures, the Class 5 switch, narrowband digital-loop carrier, and xDSL remote terminal will give way to the ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — Occam Networks Inc. will take aim at one of the last low-tech links in the wide-area network — the digital loop carrier pedestal — with two systems that will apply aspects of ...

The Digital Loop Carrier remote cabinets that serve customers outside major metropolitan areas may soon bring broadband service to a phone line near you. Last week at SuperComm 2001, three vendors ...

A geographic customer area that is consolidated into a single digital transmission by the telephone company. Each carrier serving area (CSA) is served by a digital loop carrier (DLC), which ...

Occam Networks last week unveiled a line of broadbandloop carriers designed to ease the rollout of DSL to remote terminals. The BLCs combine the functions of a DSL access multiplexer (DSLAM), a media ...