MIL-STD-188-154A
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5.5.9.2 Additional access points. Miscellaneous access points shall be provided, as required, on both digital and analog patch panels. The jack positions shall be clearly marked to identify their functions. Digital access points shall be provided for any monitoring and test equipment mounted in the patch bays. Analog patch bays shall have miscellaneous access points installed to provide all required testing and terminating functions.
6. NOTES
6.1 Military Unique Rationale. The requirements of this standard provide for the interface of telecommunications control facilities with military communications equipment, both long haul and tactical. The equipment uses some data rates that are not commercially available and methods of connecting the equipment within the facility are designed uniquely for military applications where rapid restoration of circuits in the event of an outage are of paramount importance.
The requirements in this standard provide for the interfaces of telecommunications control facilities to military communications equipment, both long haul and tactical. This equipment uses some data rates that are not commercially available and the methods of connecting equipment within a facility are designed to provide for rapid restoration of circuits in the event of a communication outage caused by acts of aggression.
6.2 RED/BLACK engineering criteria. The criteria in this publication are applicable for both RED and BLACK TCFs. The inclusion of any RED provision in the facility requires the compliance with both this document and current RED/BLACK engineering criteria established by the National Security Telecommunications and Information Systems Security Advisory Memoradum
2-95.
6.3 International agreements. Certain provisions of this standard are the subject of international standardization agreements STANAG 4206 through
4214. When amendment, revision, or cancellation of this standard is proposed which will modify the international agreement concerned, the preparing activity will take appropriate action through international standardization channels including departmental standardization offices to change the agreement or make other appropriate accommodations.
6.4 Subject term (key word) listing. Patch and test facility
Telecommunications control
Telecommunications control facility
6.5 Changes from previous issue. Marginal notations are not used in this revision to identify changes with respect to the previous issue due to the extent of the changes.
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