in telephony, a structure where telephone-subscriber lines are terminated; in conjunction with a PBX, the place where central-office telephone lines are connected to on-premises extensions; at a telephone central office, a site where subscriber lines terminate; 2)distribution frame on which the internal and external wires of an exchange terminate
The "local loop" is the physical twisted metallic pair circuit in the fixed public telephone network connecting the network termination point at the subscriber's premises to the main distribution frame or equivalent facility.
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