RJ-48 Polarity

I'm connecting two PBX ISDN interfaces together. The following are the signal definitions for RJ-48:

1 Receive (ring) 2 Receive (tip) 4 Transmit (ring) 5 Transmit (tip)

I used trial and error to get transmit and receive properly crossed between the two T1 cards. I'd like to know if there's any reason to be concerned about polarity within a single signal pair. ie 1-4 vs

1-5, etc.

If polarity does not matter in this application, does it ever matter in telecom applications?

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Posted 5 years ago by Bob Simon in Telecom Technical

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