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SDH multiplex structure

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) is a CCITT standard for a hierarchy of optical transmission rates. Synchronous Optical Network (SONET) is an ANSI (American National Standards Institute) standard for North America, that is largely equivalent to SDH. Both are widely spread technologies for very high speed transmission of voice and data signals across the numerous worldwide fiber-optic networks. SDH and SONET are point-to-point synchronous networks that use TDM multiplexing across a ring or mesh physical topology. The main difference between both standards are the some header/pointer informations and the transmission rates. The base transport module of SDH is the synchronous transport module with a transmission rate of 155,52mbps (STM-1), SONET uses OC-1 (~51mbs) as base module.

SDH/SONET transmission rates

PDH (USA) Bit Rate (Mbps) Name PDH (Europe) Name SDH Container Transport Container SONET Transport

40000 10000 2500 622 155 140 51 45 34 8 6 2 1,5 0,064 DS-1/T1 DS-0/T0 E0/D64S DS-2/T2 E1 VC12 DS-3/T3 E3 E2 VC3 E4 VC4

STM-256 STM-64 STM-16 STM-4 STM-1

STS/OC-768 STS/OC-192 STS/OC-48 STS/OC-12 STS/OC-3

STS/OC-1 STS-1 SPE

VT6 (not really used)

VT1.5

SDH multiplex structure

The SDH multiplex structure shown in the picture is defined in ITU-T G.707 and describes how low order signals are multiplexed into higher multiplex levels.

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