Remote concentrator
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Remote concentrator
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In modern telephony a remote concentrator, remote concentrator unit (RCU), or remote line concentrator (RLC) is a concentrator at the lowest level in the telephone switch hierarchy. Subscribers' analogue telephone/PSTN lines are terminated on concentrators. They have three main functions: Digitize: convert voice from analogue to a digital form.
Connect off-hook lines to the local exchange—the concentration function.
Multiplex, interleaving many calls together on a single wire or optical fiber. O
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