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DLC. Equipment used to concentrate many local loop pairs onto a few high-speed digital pairs or one fiber optic pair for transport back to the Central Office (CO).

A local telephone transmission system employing multiplexed, digital circuitry to connect a telephone Central Office to a remote distribution terminal. Typically accommodates 96 or more subscriber lines.

A digital transmission system designed for subscriber loop plant. Multiplexes a plurality of circuits onto very few wires or onto a single fiber pair.

Equipment that provides two dial tones over a single twisted copper pair - allows two phone to work on one phone line.

Digital Loop Carrier is equipment that bundles a number of individual phone line signals into a single, multiplexed digital signal for local traffic between a telephone company CO and a remote location. Digital loop carrier systems consist of two parts, a Central Office Terminal and a Remote Terminal. The Central Office Terminal provides the multiplexing/demultiplexing function of individual voice signals to the composite multiplexed signal at the interface between the switching equipment and the DLC. The Remote Terminal provides the multiplexing/demultiplexing function at the interface between the individual subscriber pairs and the DLC.

Remote central office equipment that allows for efficient transmission of voice traffic by multiplexed high speed trunk interfaces to and from the switch. Local access to the network is via line cards in the DLC, which convert the analogue voice traffic into digital traffic for network transmission.

The equipment, including lines, that is used for digital multiplexing of telephone circuits, and that is provided by the network as part of the subscriber access.

Also called a "remote terminal", a DLC extends the reach of communications from a central office to the home. DLCs can present a problem for DSL provisioning. The back-end connection (from the DLC to the CO) is typically T1, which does not have enough bandwidth for many users. There is also limited space and power available in the DLC. The ILECs are beginning to solve this problem by installing cards with DSLAM-like functionality, and adding Fiber back haul to the CO.

Digital loop carrier (DLC) is equipment that bundles a number of individual phone line signals into a single multiplexed digital signal for local traffic between a telephone company central office and a business complex or other outlying service area.

A digital loop carrier (DLC) is a system which uses digital transmission to extend the range of the local loop farther than would be possible using only twisted pair copper wires. A DLC digitizes and multiplexes the individual signals carried by the local loops onto a single datastream on the DLC segment.