CENG525 Broadband Network Architectures Quiz 1 Time: 20 minutes

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Name: _____________________________________ ID: ________________________________
A. What is the difference between:
1. STS-3 and STS-3c? (10 pts)






2. T1 and E1? (10 pts)







3. Line, section and path in SONET? (15 pts)










B. Given a SONET STS-1 frame that contains 810 bytes where each cell (byte) represents a time slot of 8 bits.
1. What do the acronyms TOH, POH and SPE stand for? (15 pts)





2. Knowing that STS-1 frame takes 125s to be transmitted, calculate:
i. Data bit rate for each slot in Kbps. (10 pts)





CENG525 Broadband Network Architectures Quiz 1 Time: 20 minutes
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ii. Total data bit rate in Mbps. (10 pts)







iii. Data bit rate for TOH. (10 pts)







iv. Data bit rate for SPE with and without POH. (10 pts)











3. For the OC-9, calculate the number of bytes in the corresponding STS frame, the number of bytes for TOH
and the number of bytes for SPE. (10 pts)