Avaya 8400B Plus User Manual

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Isolating Problems Using Loopback Data Tests
D-10
Issue 2   November 1996
Loop-Around Data Test 
Arrangement
The 8400B Plus Data Module Loop-Around Data Test Arrangement provides a 
simple mechanism that can be installed on a DEFINITY Communications 
System, to isolate Digital Communications Protocol (DCP) data problems. In the 
Loop-Around Data Test Arrangement one or more 8400B Plus Data Modules 
are set up for auto-answer, and have the received data lead looped around to 
the transmit data lead on the data module’s EIA interface. A user can then dial 
up, and see whether data typed in at the local station is echoed back. A typical 
use for this would be a user who calls the Help Desk with the complaint that 
he/she cannot access a local host. The user can be instructed to utilize the 
Loop-Around Data Test Arrangement (see 
Figure D-6. Local Configuration, Using Loop-Around Data Test 
Arrangement
Terminal
or
PC
Data Module,
PC/PBX,
or
Asynchronous
Data Unit
8400B Plus
Host
Data Module
Loopback
Plug
DCP
or ADU
Loop-Around Data
Test Arrangement
Two-Wire
DEFINITY
Communications
System
G3V2
or later