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Summary: SDH is very useful equipment
multiplexing various
that is used for the telecommunication
traffic streams and
sector in easy transfer of data. Earlier PDH
protocols like
was widely used but due to some of its
10/100/1000 Etherne
weaknesses, SDH has replaced the use of
t, E1, STM-1/4/16
PDH. But not everywhere. Point to Point
and CATV using
applications are still used mainly by PDH,
CWDM technology
and also, it's cheaper. 
over same fiber.  see
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PDH or the plesiochronous digital hierarchy
is a popular technology that is widely used
in the networks of telecommunication in
order to transport the huge amounts of
data over the digital equipment for 8 x E1 over
transportation like microwave radio or fiber IP  8 x
optic systems. The term plesiochronous E1 G.703 TDM
has been derived from the Greek work over IP | E1 over
‘plesio’ that means ‘near’ and ‘chronos’ IP | E1 to Ethernet
meaning time. This means that the PDH converter |, for
works in a state when the various different highest capacity -
parts of a network are clearly up to 8 E1 lines,
synchronized. But with the change in with pure PRI/SS7
technology, the PDH is now being replaced and GSM/CDMA
by the SDH or what is popularly called as related signalling
synchronous digital hierarchy. The SDH is supported.see
useful equipment that is used in most of more
the telecommunications networks.

This PDH helps in proper transmission of

the data that generally runs at the similar
rate but allows some slight variation in the
speed than the nominal rate. The basic
transfer rate of the data is 2048 kilobits
per second. For instance, in each speech
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transport the data in the long distance. But
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passing of time, now the
telecommunication companies have
replaced the PDH equipment with that of
the SDH equipment, which has the
capability of transmitting the data at much
higher rates as compared to the PDH
system.
The SDH is an international standard that
is highly popular and used for its high
speed data transfer of the
telecommunication and digital signals. This
synchronous system has been specially
designed in order to provide a simple and
flexible network infrastructure. This system
has brought a considerable amount of
change in the telecommunication networks
that were based on the optical fibers as far
as performance and cost were concerned.

The weaknesses that PDH faced paved way

for the introduction and use of the SDH
systems. Although the PDH proved to be a
breakthrough in the field of digital
transmission, the weaknesses that made it
less demanded includes:

1. Asynchronous structure that is

rigid.
2. Restricted management capacity.
3. Non availability of world standard
on the digital formats.
4. No optical interfaces world
standard and without an optical
level, networking is not possible.

 But if we compare the PDH system with

that of the SDH system, the latter one has
a large number of advantages. Some of
the most common advantages enjoyed by
the usage of SDH include:

1. optical interfaces
2. capability of powerful
management
3. world standard digital format
4. synchronous structure is flexible
5. cost effective and easy traffic
cross connection capacity and add
and drop facility
6. reduced networking cost due to
the transversal compatibility
7. forward and backward
compatibility

Apart from all the advantages mentioned

above, the SDH also has various
management capabilities such as
performance management, security and
access management, configuration
management and the event or the alarm
management. So, we can clearly make a
distinction between the PDH and SDH
systems so that as per the needs of the
telecommunication, the appropriate
transmission system can be used. 

Please note also, that PDH, if we talk as n

x E1 G.703 lines to be transmitted, can be
developed only up to 16 E1 lines - 34
Mbit/s. But SDH - can reach 155 Mbit/s,
which corresponds to STM-1, can reach
622 Mbit/s - STM-4.

However, it has to be noted. that AD-net

has done a huge work bridging the gap
between SDH and PDH systems, offering
customers a SDH systems - particulary
from miniSDH and microSDHrange, and -
close to PDH price! For example, most of
the suppliers, if we talk about more than
16E1 - are not able to offer units at
reasonable price and still 1U or even 2U
high. AD-net have breakthrough unit
called AN-SDH63, which is just 1U high,
and can send 63E1 over the same fiber. 

Related links:

MiniSDH systems (<63 E1, V.35, ETH)

MicroSDH Systems (1 E1 / 1 V35)
MetroSDH systems (<252 E1, V35, ETH)
n x E1 G.703 series
n x E1 G.703 + Ethernet series

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