A line card including: a co-channel estimator and a code selector. The line card is configured to couple to digital subscriber lines to support multi-tone modulation of communications channels thereon. The co-channel estimator is configured to estimate co-channel crosstalk coupling coefficients among selected pairs of the subscriber lines at levels for which the total crosstalk into a selected victim line among the plurality of digital subscriber lines substantially corresponds to the sum of the products of the corresponding crosstalk coupling coefficient for each remaining disturber one of the plurality of subscriber lines and a corresponding substantially unique vector transmitted thereon. The code selector couples to the co-channel estimator. The code selector is configured to select a cross-talk estimation code type and to generate substantially unique code vectors derived there from for injection into selected ones of the of subscriber lines.