[VoIP] RJ chatter was ages ago Channel Bank on Ebay [not mine] and E&M

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> From: windmill <windmill at topletter.com>
> To: "Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches" <voip at ckts.info>
> Subject: [VoIP] RJ chatter was ages ago Channel Bank on Ebay [not mine] and	E&M
> Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2007 16:45:27 +0000
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> Exactly but the RJ standard is about jacks..............isn't it?

No, it's about connection standards to the PSTN.

> 
> I know what 66 style is as I collect tools and I have a 66 punchdown
> tool to go with my Quante, Krone and other IDC tools and although I
> don't have any I am aware of what a 66 block is as it is similar to
> Krone and Quante termination blocks.
> 
> So when someone mentions a 66 style connection in regard to an RJ
> standard that's a 66 style .........jack...............right?

No. There is no such thing as a 66-style jack. That is perhaps what the layperson would call a 66-type block with one of several types of jacks attached, but thinking that an object is called something does make it so. The 66 refers to a particular IDC method.


> 
> On another note I have just been scouring a few online catalogues for
> something else and have come across an RJ8 cable for a Panasonic
> telephone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you let us know the source? My FCC info does not list an RJ-8. What is the application?


> 
> 
> Dontcha just love standards! :-P
> 
> 
> 
> Nathaniel D. Watson wrote:
> > This is not a jack. Its a "66 block" which is a block with 66-type IDC
> > terminals on it. However, there are kinds of these blocks which have jacks
> > integrated into or attached onto them, and this is the type that was
> > referenced earlier.
> >
> > Nathan
> >
> >
> > on 12/8/07 3:40 AM, windmill at windmill at topletter.com wrote:
> >
> >
> >> I understand a 66 style jack to refer to one with punchdown connections.
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