Table of Contents

 1     Scope          
 2     References
 3     Definitions 
        3.1     Terms defined elsewhere        
        3.2     Terms defined in this Recommendation            
 4     Abbreviations and acronyms             
 5     Reference models and system requirements            
        5.1     System reference models        
        5.2     Application reference models
        5.3     FTU protocol reference model               
        5.4     FTU functional model 
        5.5     INP system requirements        
 6     Profiles       
        6.1     Definition        
        6.2     Profile compliance       
 7     Transmission medium interface characteristics         
        7.1     Duplexing method      
        7.2     Frequency band           
        7.3     Power spectral density              
        7.4     Out-of-band PSD limit
        7.5     Termination impedance            
        7.6     Maximum aggregate transmit power  
 8     Transport protocol specific transmission convergence (TPS‑TC) function       
        8.1     Functional reference model    
        8.2     Generic DTU format   
        8.3     Packet-based TPS-TC (PTM-TC)             
        8.4     Network timing reference (NTR)          
        8.5     Time‑of‑day (ToD)       
 9     Physical media specific transmission convergence (PMS‑TC) sub-layer           
        9.1     Functional reference model    
        9.2     DTU scrambler              
        9.3     DTU encoder 
        9.4     Interleaver     
        9.5     Data frame multiplexer             
        9.6     RMC  
        9.7     Acknowledgement     
        9.8     Retransmission function           
10     Physical media dependent (PMD) function
       10.1     PMD functional reference model        
       10.2     Symbol encoder          
       10.3     Precoder (downstream vectoring)      
       10.4     Modulation   
       10.5     TDD frame structure 
       10.6     Superframe structure               
       10.7     Normal and discontinuous operation intervals              
       10.8     Alignment of transmissions in vectored group               
11     Operation and maintenance (OAM)             
       11.1     OAM functional model             
       11.2     Management functions and procedures over eoc       
       11.3     OAM primitives           
       11.4     OAM parameters       
12     Link activation methods and procedures    
       12.1     Overview       
       12.2     Special operations channel (SOC)        
       12.3     Initialization procedure            
       12.4     Loop diagnostics mode            
13     Online reconfiguration (OLR)           
       13.1     Overview       
       13.2     Eoc-based procedures             
       13.3     RMC-based procedures           
       13.4     Low power states       
14     Electrical requirements       
       14.1     Balance           
       14.2     Differential port impedance  
Appendix I – Wiring topologies and reference loops    
        I.1                   Wiring topologies            
        I.2                   Reference loops              
Appendix II – Example OLR use cases    
       II.1     Transmitter initiated gain adjustment (TIGA)   
Appendix III – Motivation of MTBE accelerated test    
Appendix IV – Upstream dynamic resource reports    
Appendix V – Retransmission buffer size and the achievable bit-rate    
        V.1     Case 1: NSYMret+NSYMack+1
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        V.2     Case 2: NSYMret+NSYMack+1
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        V.3     Case 3: Lower bound for the achievable net data rate
        V.4     Memory size example              
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Appendix VI – Example applications of discontinuous operation    
       VI.1     Discontinuous operation with vectoring disabled         
       VI.2     Examples of discontinuous operation with vectoring enabled
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