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BORSCHT
Functions performed by a subscriber line interface circuit in telephone service / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about telecommunications standards. For Eastern European vegetable soup, see Borscht.
BORSCHT is an acronym for the set of functions performed by a subscriber line interface circuit (SLIC) in the line card of a telecommunication system providing plain old telephone service. The letters represent the following functions: battery feed (B), overvoltage protection (O), ringing (R), signaling (S), coding (C), hybrid (H), and test (T).[1]
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An earlier or alternate version of the acronym is BORSHT, lacking the letter C for the coding function.[2]