MIL-STD-188-154-SUP Subsystem, Equipment, and Interface Standards for Common Long Haul and Tactical Telecommunications Control FacilitiesThis standard establishes physical and functional interface requirements for long haul and tactical telecommunications control facilities formerly technical control facilities in the Department of Defense DoD. As used in this standard, the term telecommunications control facility TCF includes patch and test facilities PTFs and interfaces to locations that provide centralized monitoring and control functions for other telecommunication locations.

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MIL-STD-188-154A

CONTENTS

PARAGRAPH                                                                                                 PAGE

FOREWORD.........................................................................................................ii

1.  SCOPE.............................................................................................................1

1.1  Scope.......................................................................................................1

1.2  Applicability .............................................................................................1

2.  APPLICABLE DOCUMENTS ...........................................................................1

2.1  General....................................................................................................1

2.2  Government documents...........................................................................1

2.2.1  Specifications, standards and handbooks......................................1

Other government documents, drawings, and publications .....................2

2.3  Non-Government publications .................................................................2

2.4  Order of precedence................................................................................3

3.  DEFINITIONS ..................................................................................................4

3.1  Acronyms used in this standard...............................................................4

3.2  Access point ............................................................................................4

3.3  Centralized monitoring and control facility (CMCF).................................4

3.4  Patch and test facility (PTF) ....................................................................5

3.5  Telecommunications control facility (TCF) ..............................................5

3.6  Transmission access ...............................................................................5

3.?  User access.............................................................................................5

4.  GENERAL REQUIREMENTS ..........................................................................5

4.1  General description of a telecommunications control facility...................5

4.1.1  General ..........................................................................................5

4.1.2  Functions........................................................................................5

4.1.2.1  Facility capabilities ...............................................................5

4.1.2.2  Network management ...........................................................6

4.1.2.3  Relationships between facilities............................................6

4.1.3  Organization...................................................................................6

4.1.4  Design baseline..............................................................................?

4.1.5  Major elements...............................................................................?

4.2  General considerations............................................................................?

4.2.1  General configurations...................................................................8

4.2.1.1  Electrical configuration .........................................................8

4.2.1.2  Physical configuration...........................................................8

4.2.2  Installation, fabrication, and construction.......................................9

4.2.2.1  Modularity .............................................................................9

4.2.2.2  Physical access ....................................................................9

4.2.2.3  Test equipment ...................................................................10

4.2.2.4  Cabling................................................................................10

4.2.2.5  Cabinet cabling...................................................................10

4.2.2.6  Interconnecting cables........................................................10

4.2.2.?  Connectorized cables .........................................................10

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