outside plant

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Definition of outside plant in English English dictionary: Outside Plant refers to the telephone equipment located physically outside of the telephone building itself such as cables, fiber optic facilities, and supporting structures It does no include microwave towers, repeaters, etc; 1 In telephony, all cables, conduits, ducts, poles, towers, repeaters, repeater huts, and other equipment located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching facility or customer premises Note: The demarcation point may be at a distribution frame, cable head, or microwave transmitter 2 In DOD communications, the portion of intrabase communications equipment between the main distribution frame (MDF) and a user end instrument or the terminal connection for a user instrument (188); Cabling, equipment, or structures that are out of doors; Telephone plant (such as poles, conduits, cables and hardware) which is outside of the telephone building; In telephony, all cables, conduits, ducts, poles, towers, repeaters, repeater huts, and other equipment located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching facility or customer premises