Patent ID: 6493319
Filing Date: 2002-12-10
Classification: H04L

Abstract:
A system for accessing a plurality of communication lines by one or more testing devices, each of the plurality of communications lines coupled through the system and having a first termination at a first telecommunications termination site and a second termination at a second telecommunications termination site, the system comprising:a plurality of line access devices, each of the line access devices coupled to at least one of the communication lines terminating at the first telecommunications termination site and at least one of the communication lines terminating at the second telecommunications termination site in the system having a plurality of operational modes; a plurality of relays defining a bus, one or more of the relays coupled to one of the line access devices; and a test device interface coupled to the bus, an activated one or more of the relays coupling a selected one of the communication lines to a selected one of the testing devices via the test device interface.