[c-nsp] Signal too "hot" for PA-A3-T3

[Jon Lewis]

On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, Rick Kunkel wrote:

> I just went through a 2-day troubleshooting session, due to a bunch of
> errors using a PA-A3-T3 and a third party's mux.  In the end, upon the
> advice of a couple of people, we put a signal attentuator inline, and the
> errors have stopped.

I've never heard of this with the PA-A3-T3, but its common when pairing 
the PA-MC-T3 and Adtran muxes.  Attenuators or a hefty service loop will 
usually cool the signal down to something cisco can handle.

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