In civilian telecommunications, outside plant refers to all of the physical cabling and supporting infrastructure (such as conduit, cabinets, tower or poles), and any associated hardware (such as repeaters) located between a demarcation point in a switching facility and a demarcation point in another switching center or customer premises.
Summary: A Hezbollah suspect allegedly involved in the attempted assassination of MP Boutros Harb last year failed once again to appear in court Friday and faces the possibility of a trial in absentia.
(usually uncountable, plural absences) 1  A state of being away or withdrawn from a place or from companionship; the period of being away. [First attested around 1350 to 1470.] Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 2  Failure to be present where one is expected, wanted, or needed; nonattendence; deficiency.