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Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.<br /><small><span class="plainlinks"><i>Find sources:</i> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?as_eq=wikipedia&q=%22Synchronous+optical+networking%22">"Synchronous optical networking"</a> – <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbm=nws&q=%22Synchronous+optical+networking%22+-wikipedia&tbs=ar:1">news</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?&q=%22Synchronous+optical+networking%22&tbs=bkt:s&tbm=bks">newspapers</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.google.com/search?tbs=bks:1&q=%22Synchronous+optical+networking%22+-wikipedia">books</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=%22Synchronous+optical+networking%22">scholar</a> <b>·</b> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.jstor.org/action/doBasicSearch?Query=%22Synchronous+optical+networking%22&acc=on&wc=on">JSTOR</a></span></small></span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">July 2007</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Synchronous Optical Networking</b> (<b>SONET</b>) and <b>Synchronous Digital Hierarchy</b> (<b>SDH</b>) are standardized protocols that transfer multiple <a href="/wiki/Digital_data" title="Digital data">digital</a> <a href="/wiki/Bit_stream" class="mw-redirect" title="Bit stream">bit streams</a> <a href="/wiki/Synchronous" class="mw-redirect" title="Synchronous">synchronously</a> over <a href="/wiki/Optical_fiber" title="Optical fiber">optical fiber</a> using <a href="/wiki/Laser" title="Laser">lasers</a> or highly <a href="/wiki/Coherence_(physics)" title="Coherence (physics)">coherent</a> light from <a href="/wiki/Light-emitting_diode" title="Light-emitting diode">light-emitting diodes</a> (LEDs). At low <a href="/wiki/Bit_rate" title="Bit rate">transmission rates</a> data can also be transferred via an electrical interface. The method was developed to replace the <a href="/wiki/Plesiochronous_digital_hierarchy" title="Plesiochronous digital hierarchy">plesiochronous digital hierarchy</a> (PDH) system for transporting large amounts of <a href="/wiki/Telephone" title="Telephone">telephone</a> calls and <a href="/wiki/Data" title="Data">data</a> traffic over the same fiber without the problems of synchronization. </p><p>SONET and SDH, which are essentially the same, were originally designed to transport <a href="/wiki/Circuit_mode" class="mw-redirect" title="Circuit mode">circuit mode</a> communications (e.g., <a href="/wiki/Digital_Signal_1" title="Digital Signal 1">DS1</a>, <a href="/wiki/Digital_Signal_3" title="Digital Signal 3">DS3</a>) from a variety of different sources, but they were primarily designed to support real-time, uncompressed, circuit-switched voice encoded in <a href="/wiki/Pulse-code_modulation" title="Pulse-code modulation">PCM</a> format.<sup id="cite_ref-td-hdbk_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-td-hdbk-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The primary difficulty in doing this prior to SONET/SDH was that the synchronization sources of these various circuits were different. This meant that each circuit was actually operating at a slightly different rate and with different phase. SONET/SDH allowed for the simultaneous transport of many different circuits of differing origin within a single framing protocol. SONET/SDH is not a complete communications protocol in itself, but a transport protocol (not a 'transport' in the <a href="/wiki/OSI_Model" class="mw-redirect" title="OSI Model">OSI Model</a> sense). </p><p>Due to SONET/SDH's essential protocol neutrality and transport-oriented features, SONET/SDH was the choice for transporting the fixed length <a href="/wiki/Asynchronous_Transfer_Mode" title="Asynchronous Transfer Mode">Asynchronous Transfer Mode</a> (ATM) frames also known as cells. It quickly evolved mapping structures and concatenated payload containers to transport ATM connections. In other words, for ATM (and eventually other protocols such as <a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a>), the internal complex structure previously used to transport circuit-oriented connections was removed and replaced with a large and concatenated frame (such as STS-3c) into which ATM cells, IP packets, or Ethernet frames are placed. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SDH_Racks.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/SDH_Racks.jpg/220px-SDH_Racks.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="376" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/SDH_Racks.jpg/330px-SDH_Racks.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/SDH_Racks.jpg 2x" data-file-width="384" data-file-height="656" /></a><figcaption>Racks of <a href="/wiki/Alcatel" title="Alcatel">Alcatel</a> STM-16 SDH <a href="/wiki/Add-drop_multiplexer" title="Add-drop multiplexer">add-drop multiplexers</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Both SDH and SONET are widely used today: SONET in the <a href="/wiki/United_States" title="United States">United States</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canada" title="Canada">Canada</a>, and SDH in the rest of the world. Although the SONET standards were developed before SDH, it is considered a variation of SDH because of SDH's greater worldwide market penetration. SONET is subdivided into four sublayers with some factor such as the path, line, section and physical layer. </p><p>The SDH standard was originally defined by the <a href="/wiki/European_Telecommunications_Standards_Institute" title="European Telecommunications Standards Institute">European Telecommunications Standards Institute</a> (ETSI), and is formalised as <a href="/wiki/International_Telecommunication_Union" title="International Telecommunication Union">International Telecommunication Union</a> (ITU) standards G.707,<sup id="cite_ref-G.707_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G.707-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/G.783" title="G.783">G.783</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-G.783_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G.783-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> G.784,<sup id="cite_ref-G.784_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G.784-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and G.803.<sup id="cite_ref-G.803_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G.803-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-techfest_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-techfest-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The SONET standard was defined by <a href="/wiki/Telcordia" class="mw-redirect" title="Telcordia">Telcordia</a><sup id="cite_ref-GR-253-CORE_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-GR-253-CORE-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and <a href="/wiki/American_National_Standards_Institute" title="American National Standards Institute">American National Standards Institute</a> (ANSI) standard T1.105.<sup id="cite_ref-techfest_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-techfest-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ANSI-T1.105_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANSI-T1.105-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which define the set of transmission formats and transmission rates in the range above 51.840 Mbit/s. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Difference_from_PDH">Difference from PDH</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Difference from PDH"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SDH differs from <a href="/wiki/Plesiochronous_Digital_Hierarchy" class="mw-redirect" title="Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy">Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy</a> (PDH) in that the exact rates that are used to transport the data on SONET/SDH are tightly <a href="/wiki/Synchronization_(computer_science)" title="Synchronization (computer science)">synchronized</a> across the entire network, using <a href="/wiki/Atomic_clock" title="Atomic clock">atomic clocks</a>. This <a href="/wiki/Synchronization_in_telecommunications" title="Synchronization in telecommunications">synchronization system</a> allows entire inter-country networks to operate synchronously, greatly reducing the amount of buffering required between elements in the network. Both SONET and SDH can be used to <a href="/wiki/Encapsulation_(computer_science)" class="mw-redirect" title="Encapsulation (computer science)">encapsulate</a> earlier digital transmission standards, such as the PDH standard, or they can be used to directly support either Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) or so-called <a href="/wiki/Packet_over_SONET/SDH" title="Packet over SONET/SDH">packet over SONET/SDH</a> (POS) networking. Therefore, it is inaccurate to think of SDH or SONET as communications protocols in and of themselves; they are generic, all-purpose transport containers for moving both voice and data. The basic format of a SONET/SDH signal allows it to carry many different services in its virtual container (VC), because it is bandwidth-flexible. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Protocol_overview">Protocol overview<span class="anchor" id="Structure_of_SONET/SDH_signals"></span></h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Protocol overview"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SONET and SDH often use different terms to describe identical features or functions. This can cause confusion and exaggerate their differences. With a few exceptions, SDH can be thought of as a superset of SONET. </p><p>SONET is a set of transport containers that allow for delivery of a variety of protocols, including traditional telephony, ATM, Ethernet, and TCP/IP traffic. SONET therefore is not in itself a native communications protocol and should not be confused as being necessarily <a href="/wiki/Connection-oriented_communication" title="Connection-oriented communication">connection-oriented</a> in the way that term is usually used. </p><p>The protocol is a heavily multiplexed structure, with the <a href="/wiki/Header_(computing)" title="Header (computing)">header</a> interleaved between the data in a complex way. This permits the encapsulated data to have its own frame rate and be able to "float around" relative to the SDH/SONET frame structure and rate. This interleaving permits a very low <a href="/wiki/Latency_(engineering)" title="Latency (engineering)">latency</a> for the encapsulated data. Data passing through equipment can be delayed by at most 32 <a href="/wiki/Microsecond" title="Microsecond">microseconds</a> (μs), compared to a frame rate of 125 μs; many competing protocols buffer the data during such transits for at least one frame or packet before sending it on. Extra padding is allowed for the multiplexed data to move within the overall framing, as the data is clocked at a different rate than the frame rate. The protocol is made more complex by the decision to permit this padding at most levels of the multiplexing structure, but it improves all-around performance. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Basic_transmission_unit">Basic transmission unit</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Basic transmission unit"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The basic unit of framing in SDH is a <a href="/wiki/STM-1" title="STM-1">STM-1</a> (Synchronous Transport Module, level 1), which operates at 155.520 <a href="/wiki/Mbit/s" class="mw-redirect" title="Mbit/s">megabits per second</a> (Mbit/s). SONET refers to this basic unit as an STS-3c (Synchronous Transport Signal 3, concatenated). When the STS-3c is carried over OC-3, it is often colloquially referred to as <a href="/wiki/OC-3" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-3">OC-3c</a>, but this is not an official designation within the SONET standard as there is no physical layer (i.e. optical) difference between an STS-3c and 3 STS-1s carried within an OC-3. </p><p>SONET offers an additional basic unit of transmission, the STS-1 (Synchronous Transport Signal 1) or <a href="/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_rates#OC-1" title="Optical Carrier transmission rates">OC-1</a>, operating at 51.84 Mbit/s—exactly one third of an STM-1/STS-3c/OC-3c carrier. This speed is dictated by the bandwidth requirements for PCM-encoded telephonic voice signals: at this rate, an STS-1/OC-1 circuit can carry the bandwidth equivalent of a standard <a href="/wiki/DS-3" class="mw-redirect" title="DS-3">DS-3</a> channel, which can carry 672 64-kbit/s voice channels.<sup id="cite_ref-td-hdbk_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-td-hdbk-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In SONET, the STS-3c signal is composed of three multiplexed STS-1 signals; the STS-3c may be carried on an OC-3 signal. Some manufacturers also support the SDH equivalent of the STS-1/OC-1, known as STM-0. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Framing">Framing</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Framing"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In packet-oriented data transmission, such as <a href="/wiki/Ethernet" title="Ethernet">Ethernet</a>, a packet frame usually consists of a <a href="/wiki/Header_(computing)" title="Header (computing)">header</a> and a <a href="/wiki/Payload_(computing)" title="Payload (computing)">payload</a>. The header is transmitted first, followed by the payload (and possibly a <a href="/wiki/Trailer_(computing)" title="Trailer (computing)">trailer</a>, such as a <a href="/wiki/Cyclic_redundancy_check" title="Cyclic redundancy check">CRC</a>). In synchronous optical networking, this is modified slightly. The header is termed the <i>overhead</i>, and instead of being transmitted before the payload, is interleaved with it during transmission. Part of the overhead is transmitted, then part of the payload, then the next part of the overhead, then the next part of the payload, until the entire frame has been transmitted. </p><p>In the case of an STS-1, the frame is 810 <a href="/wiki/Octet_(computing)" title="Octet (computing)">octets</a> in size, while the STM-1/STS-3c frame is 2,430 octets in size. For STS-1, the frame is transmitted as three octets of overhead, followed by 87 octets of payload. This is repeated nine times, until 810 octets have been transmitted, taking 125 <a href="/wiki/Microsecond" title="Microsecond">μs</a>. In the case of an STS-3c/STM-1, which operates three times faster than an STS-1, nine octets of overhead are transmitted, followed by 261 octets of payload. This is also repeated nine times until 2,430 octets have been transmitted, also taking 125 <a href="/wiki/Microsecond" title="Microsecond">μs</a>. For both SONET and SDH, this is often represented by displaying the frame graphically: as a block of 90 columns and nine rows for STS-1, and 270 columns and nine rows for STM1/STS-3c. This representation aligns all the overhead columns, so the overhead appears as a contiguous block, as does the payload. </p><p>The internal structure of the overhead and payload within the frame differs slightly between SONET and SDH, and different terms are used in the standards to describe these structures. Their standards are extremely similar in implementation, making it easy to interoperate between SDH and SONET at any given bandwidth. </p><p>In practice, the terms STS-1 and OC-1 are sometimes used interchangeably, though the OC designation refers to the signal in its optical form. It is therefore incorrect to say that an OC-3 contains 3 OC-1s: an OC-3 can be said to contain 3 STS-1s. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="SDH_frame">SDH frame</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: SDH frame"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:SDH_STM1_Frame.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/SDH_STM1_Frame.svg/370px-SDH_STM1_Frame.svg.png" decoding="async" width="370" height="211" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/SDH_STM1_Frame.svg/555px-SDH_STM1_Frame.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a6/SDH_STM1_Frame.svg/740px-SDH_STM1_Frame.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="595" data-file-height="339" /></a><figcaption>An STM-1 frame. The first nine columns contain the overhead and the pointers. For the sake of simplicity, the frame is shown as a rectangular structure of 270 columns and nine rows but the protocol does not transmit the bytes in this order.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Stm_1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Stm_1.jpg/370px-Stm_1.jpg" decoding="async" width="370" height="278" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Stm_1.jpg/555px-Stm_1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Stm_1.jpg/740px-Stm_1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1064" data-file-height="798" /></a><figcaption>For the sake of simplicity, the frame is shown as a rectangular structure of 270 columns and nine rows. The first three rows and nine columns contain regenerator section overhead (RSOH) and the last five rows and nine columns contain multiplex section overhead (MSOH). The fourth row from the top contains pointers.</figcaption></figure> <p>The Synchronous Transport Module, level 1 (STM-1) frame is the basic transmission format for SDH—the first level of the synchronous digital hierarchy. The STM-1 frame is transmitted in exactly 125 <a href="/wiki/Microsecond" title="Microsecond">μs</a>, therefore, there are 8,000 frames per second on a 155.52 Mbit/s OC-3 fiber-optic circuit.<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The STM-1 frame consists of overhead and pointers plus information payload. The first nine columns of each frame make up the section overhead and administrative unit pointers, and the last 261 columns make up the information payload. The pointers (H1, H2, H3 bytes) identify administrative units (AU) within the information payload. Thus, an OC-3 circuit can carry 150.336 Mbit/s of payload, after accounting for the overhead.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Carried within the information payload, which has its own frame structure of nine rows and 261 columns, are administrative units identified by pointers. Also within the administrative unit are one or more virtual containers (VCs). VCs contain path overhead and VC payload. The first column is for path overhead; it is followed by the payload container, which can itself carry other containers. Administrative units can have any phase alignment within the STM frame, and this alignment is indicated by the pointer in row four. </p><p>The section overhead (SOH) of a STM-1 signal is divided into two parts: the <i>regenerator section overhead</i> (RSOH) and the <i>multiplex section overhead</i> (MSOH). The overheads contain information from the transmission system itself, which is used for a wide range of management functions, such as monitoring transmission quality, detecting failures, managing alarms, data communication channels, service channels, etc. </p><p>The STM frame is continuous and is transmitted in a serial fashion: byte-by-byte, row-by-row. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Transport_overhead">Transport overhead</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Transport overhead"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The transport overhead is used for signaling and measuring transmission <a href="/wiki/Bit_error_rate" title="Bit error rate">error rates</a>, and is composed as follows: </p> <dl><dd><dl><dt>Section overhead</dt> <dd>Called regenerator section overhead (RSOH) in SDH terminology: 27 octets containing information about the frame structure required by the terminal equipment.</dd> <dt>Line overhead</dt> <dd>Called multiplex section overhead (MSOH) in SDH: 45 octets containing information about error correction and Automatic Protection Switching messages (e.g., alarms and maintenance messages) as may be required within the network. The error correction is included for STM-16 and above.<sup id="cite_ref-FECOptical_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FECOptical-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd> <dt>Administrative unit (AU) pointer</dt> <dd>Points to the location of the J1 byte in the payload (the first byte in the virtual container).<sup id="cite_ref-cisco-sdh_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-cisco-sdh-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></dd></dl></dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Path_virtual_envelope">Path virtual envelope</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Path virtual envelope"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Data transmitted from end to end is referred to as <i>path data</i>. It is composed of two components: </p> <dl><dd><dl><dt>Payload overhead (POH)</dt> <dd>9 octets used for end-to-end signaling and error measurement.</dd> <dt>Payload</dt> <dd>User data (774 bytes for STM-0/STS-1, or 2,430 octets for STM-1/STS-3c)</dd></dl></dd></dl> <p>For STS-1, the payload is referred to as the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_payload_envelope&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Synchronous payload envelope (page does not exist)">synchronous payload envelope</a> (SPE), which in turn has 18 stuffing bytes, leading to the STS-1 payload capacity of 756 bytes.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The STS-1 payload is designed to carry a full PDH <a href="/wiki/T-carrier" title="T-carrier">DS3</a> frame. When the DS3 enters a SONET network, <a href="/w/index.php?title=Path_overhead&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Path overhead (page does not exist)">path overhead</a> is added, and that SONET <a href="/wiki/Network_element" title="Network element">network element</a> (NE) is said to be a <i>path generator and terminator</i>. The SONET NE is <i><a href="/w/index.php?title=Line_terminating&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Line terminating (page does not exist)">line terminating</a></i> if it processes the line overhead. Note that wherever the line or path is terminated, the section is terminated also. SONET regenerators terminate the section, but not the paths or line. </p><p>An STS-1 payload can also be subdivided into seven <i>virtual tributary groups</i> (VTGs). Each VTG can then be subdivided into four <a href="/wiki/VT1.5" title="VT1.5">VT1.5</a> signals, each of which can carry a PDH <a href="/wiki/Digital_Signal_1" title="Digital Signal 1">DS1</a> signal. A VTG may instead be subdivided into three <a href="/wiki/VT2" class="mw-redirect" title="VT2">VT2</a> signals, each of which can carry a PDH <a href="/wiki/E-carrier_level_1" class="mw-redirect" title="E-carrier level 1">E1</a> signal. The SDH equivalent of a VTG is a TUG-2; VT1.5 is equivalent to VC-11, and VT2 is equivalent to VC-12. </p><p>Three STS-1 signals may be <a href="/wiki/Multiplexing" title="Multiplexing">multiplexed</a> by <a href="/wiki/Time-division_multiplexing" title="Time-division multiplexing">time-division multiplexing</a> to form the next level of the SONET hierarchy, the <a href="/wiki/OC-3" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-3">OC-3</a> (STS-3), running at 155.52 Mbit/s. The signal is multiplexed by interleaving the bytes of the three STS-1 frames to form the STS-3 frame, containing 2,430 bytes and transmitted in 125 <a href="/wiki/Microsecond" title="Microsecond">μs</a>. </p><p>Higher-speed circuits are formed by successively aggregating multiples of slower circuits, their speed always being immediately apparent from their designation. For example, four STS-3 or AU4 signals can be aggregated to form a 622.08 Mbit/s signal designated <a href="/wiki/OC-12" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-12">OC-12</a> or <a href="/wiki/STM-4" title="STM-4">STM-4</a>. </p><p>The highest rate commonly deployed is the <a href="/wiki/OC-768" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-768">OC-768</a> or <a href="/wiki/STM-256" class="mw-redirect" title="STM-256">STM-256</a> circuit, which operates at rate of just under 38.5 Gbit/s.<sup id="cite_ref-oc768_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oc768-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Where fiber exhaustion is a concern, multiple SONET signals can be transported over multiple wavelengths on a single fiber pair by means of <a href="/wiki/Wavelength-division_multiplexing" title="Wavelength-division multiplexing">wavelength-division multiplexing</a>, including dense wavelength-division multiplexing (DWDM) and coarse wavelength-division multiplexing (CWDM). DWDM circuits are the basis for all modern <a href="/wiki/Submarine_communications_cable" title="Submarine communications cable">submarine communications cable</a> systems and other long-haul circuits. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="SONET/SDH_and_relationship_to_10_Gigabit_Ethernet"><span id="SONET.2FSDH_and_relationship_to_10_Gigabit_Ethernet"></span>SONET/SDH and relationship to 10 Gigabit Ethernet</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: SONET/SDH and relationship to 10 Gigabit Ethernet"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Another type of high-speed data networking circuit is <a href="/wiki/10_Gigabit_Ethernet" title="10 Gigabit Ethernet">10 Gigabit Ethernet</a> (10GbE). The Gigabit <a href="/wiki/Ethernet_Alliance" title="Ethernet Alliance">Ethernet Alliance</a> created two 10 Gigabit Ethernet variants: a local area variant (<b>LAN PHY</b>) with a line rate of 10.3125 Gbit/s, and a wide area variant (<b>WAN PHY</b>) with the same line rate as OC-192/STM-64 (9,953,280 kbit/s).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The WAN PHY variant encapsulates Ethernet data using a lightweight SDH/SONET frame, so as to be compatible at a low level with equipment designed to carry SDH/SONET signals, whereas the LAN PHY variant encapsulates Ethernet data using <a href="/wiki/64b/66b_encoding" title="64b/66b encoding">64B/66B</a> line coding. </p><p>However, 10 Gigabit Ethernet does not explicitly provide any interoperability at the bitstream level with other SDH/SONET systems. This differs from WDM system transponders, including both coarse and dense wavelength-division multiplexing systems (CWDM and DWDM) that currently support OC-192 SONET signals, which can normally support thin-SONET–framed 10 Gigabit Ethernet. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="SONET/SDH_data_rates"><span id="SONET.2FSDH_data_rates"></span>SONET/SDH data rates</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: SONET/SDH data rates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:95%;"> <caption><b>SONET/SDH Designations and bandwidths</b> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th>SONET Optical Carrier level </th> <th>SONET frame format </th> <th>SDH level and frame format </th> <th>Payload bandwidth<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>nb 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> (<a href="/wiki/Kilobit_per_second" class="mw-redirect" title="Kilobit per second">kbit/s</a>) </th> <th>Line rate (kbit/s) </th></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Optical_Carrier_transmission_rates#OC-1" title="Optical Carrier transmission rates">OC-1</a> </td> <td>STS-1 </td> <td>STM-0 </td> <td align="right">50,112 </td> <td align="right">51,840 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OC-3" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-3">OC-3</a> </td> <td>STS-3 </td> <td>STM-1 </td> <td align="right">150,336 </td> <td align="right">155,520 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OC-12" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-12">OC-12</a> </td> <td>STS-12 </td> <td>STM-4 </td> <td align="right">601,344 </td> <td align="right">622,080 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OC-24" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-24">OC-24</a> </td> <td>STS-24 </td> <td>– </td> <td align="right">1,202,688 </td> <td align="right">1,244,160 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OC-48" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-48">OC-48</a> </td> <td>STS-48 </td> <td>STM-16 </td> <td align="right">2,405,376 </td> <td align="right">2,488,320 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OC-192" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-192">OC-192</a> </td> <td>STS-192 </td> <td>STM-64 </td> <td align="right">9,621,504 </td> <td align="right">9,953,280 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/OC-768" class="mw-redirect" title="OC-768">OC-768</a> </td> <td>STS-768 </td> <td>STM-256 </td> <td align="right">38,486,016 </td> <td align="right">39,813,120 </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>User throughput must not deduct path overhead from the payload bandwidth, but path-overhead bandwidth is variable based on the types of cross-connects built across the optical system. </p><p>Note that the data-rate progression starts at 155 Mbit/s and increases by multiples of four. The only exception is OC-24, which is standardized in ANSI T1.105, but not a SDH standard rate in ITU-T G.707.<sup id="cite_ref-G.707_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G.707-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ANSI-T1.105_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ANSI-T1.105-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other rates, such as OC-9, OC-18, OC-36, OC-96, and OC-1536, are defined but not commonly deployed; most are considered orphaned rates.<sup id="cite_ref-td-hdbk_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-td-hdbk-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-broadcast_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-broadcast-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-sat-intro_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sat-intro-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Physical_layer">Physical layer</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Physical layer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The physical layer refers to the first layer in the OSI networking model.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The ATM and SDH layers are the regenerator section level, digital line level, transmission path level, virtual path level, and virtual channel level.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The physical layer is modeled on three major entities: transmission path, digital line and the regenerator section.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regenerator section refers to the section and photonic layers. The photonic layer is the lowest SONET layer and it is responsible for transmitting the bits to the physical medium. The section layer is responsible for generating the proper STS-N frames which are to be transmitted across the physical medium. It deals with issues such as proper framing, error monitoring, section maintenance, and orderwire. The line layer ensures reliable transport of the payload and overhead generated by the path layer. It provides synchronization and multiplexing for multiple paths. It modifies overhead bits relating to quality control. The path layer is SONET's highest level layer. It takes data to be transmitted and transforms them into signals required by the line layer, and adds or modifies the path overhead bits for performance monitoring and protection switching.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="SONET/SDH_network_management_protocols"><span id="SONET.2FSDH_network_management_protocols"></span>SONET/SDH network management protocols</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: SONET/SDH network management protocols"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Telecommunications_Management_Network" title="Telecommunications Management Network">Telecommunications Management Network</a></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Technical plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-style ambox-technical" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/40px-Edit-clear.svg.png" decoding="async" width="40" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/60px-Edit-clear.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/f2/Edit-clear.svg/80px-Edit-clear.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="48" data-file-height="48" /></span></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>may be too technical for most readers to understand</b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit">help improve it</a> to <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Make_technical_articles_understandable" title="Wikipedia:Make technical articles understandable">make it understandable to non-experts</a>, without removing the technical details.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Overall_functionality">Overall functionality</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Overall functionality"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Network management systems are used to configure and monitor SDH and SONET equipment either locally or remotely. </p><p>The systems consist of three essential parts, covered later in more detail: </p> <ul><li>Software running on a 'network management system terminal' e.g. workstation, dumb terminal or laptop housed in an exchange/ central office.</li> <li>Transport of network management data between the 'network management system terminal' and the SONET/ SDH equipment e.g. using TL1/ Q3 protocols.</li> <li>Transport of network management data between SDH/ SONET equipment using 'dedicated embedded data communication channels' (DCCs) within the section and line overhead.</li></ul> <p>The main functions of network management thereby include: </p> <dl><dt>Network and network-element provisioning</dt> <dd>In order to allocate bandwidth throughout a network, each network element must be configured. Although this can be done locally, through a craft interface, it is normally done through a network management system (sitting at a higher layer) that in turn operates through the SONET/SDH network management network.</dd> <dt>Software upgrade</dt> <dd>Network-element software upgrades are done mostly through the SONET/SDH management network in modern equipment.</dd> <dt>Performance management</dt> <dd>Network elements have a very large set of standards for performance management. The performance-management criteria allow not only monitoring the health of individual network elements, but isolating and identifying most network defects or outages. Higher-layer <a href="/wiki/Network_monitoring" title="Network monitoring">network monitoring</a> and management software allows the proper filtering and troubleshooting of network-wide performance management, so that defects and outages can be quickly identified and resolved.</dd></dl> <p>Consider the three parts defined above: </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Network_management_system_terminal">Network management system terminal</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Network management system terminal"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>Local Craft interface</dt> <dd>Local "craftspersons" (telephone network engineers) can access a SDH/ SONET network element on a "craft port" and issue commands through a <a href="/wiki/Dumb_terminal" class="mw-redirect" title="Dumb terminal">dumb terminal</a> or terminal emulation program running on a laptop. This interface can also be attached to a <a href="/wiki/Console_server" class="mw-redirect" title="Console server">console server</a>, allowing for remote <a href="/wiki/Out-of-band_management" title="Out-of-band management">out-of-band management</a> and <a href="/wiki/Data_logging" class="mw-redirect" title="Data logging">logging</a>.</dd></dl> <dl><dt>Network management system (sitting at a higher layer)</dt></dl> <p>This will often consist of software running on a Workstation covering a number of SDH/SONET network elements </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="TL1/_Q3_Protocols"><span id="TL1.2F_Q3_Protocols"></span>TL1/ Q3 Protocols</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: TL1/ Q3 Protocols"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dt>TL1</dt></dl> <p>SONET equipment is often managed with the <a href="/wiki/TL1" class="mw-redirect" title="TL1">TL1</a> protocol. TL1 is a telecom language for managing and reconfiguring SONET network elements. The command language used by a SONET network element, such as TL1, must be carried by other management protocols, such as <a href="/wiki/Simple_Network_Management_Protocol" title="Simple Network Management Protocol">SNMP</a>, <a href="/wiki/CORBA" class="mw-redirect" title="CORBA">CORBA</a>, or <a href="/wiki/XML" title="XML">XML</a>. </p> <dl><dt>Q3</dt></dl> <p>SDH has been mainly managed using the Q3 interface protocol suite defined in ITU recommendations Q.811 and Q.812. With the convergence of SONET and SDH on switching matrix and network elements architecture, newer implementations have also offered TL1.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Most SONET <a href="/wiki/Network_element" title="Network element">NEs</a> have a limited number of management interfaces defined: </p> <dl><dt>TL1 Electrical interface</dt> <dd>The electrical interface, often a <a href="/wiki/50_%CE%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="50 Ω">50-ohm coaxial cable</a>, sends SONET TL1 commands from a local management network physically housed in the <a href="/wiki/Telephone_exchange" title="Telephone exchange">central office</a> where the SONET network element is located. This is for local management of that network element and, possibly, remote management of other SONET network elements.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Dedicated_embedded_data_communication_channels_(DCCs)"><span id="Dedicated_embedded_data_communication_channels_.28DCCs.29"></span>Dedicated embedded data communication channels (DCCs)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Dedicated embedded data communication channels (DCCs)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <dl><dd>SONET and SDH have dedicated data communication channels (DCCs) within the section and line overhead for management traffic. Generally, section overhead (<i>regenerator section</i> in SDH) is used. According to <a href="/wiki/ITU-T" title="ITU-T">ITU-T</a> G.7712, there are three modes used for management:<sup id="cite_ref-G.7712_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-G.7712-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Internet_Protocol" title="Internet Protocol">IP</a>-only stack, using <a href="/wiki/Point-to-Point_Protocol" title="Point-to-Point Protocol">PPP</a> as data-link</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Open_Systems_Interconnection" class="mw-redirect" title="Open Systems Interconnection">OSI</a>-only stack, using LAP-D as data-link</li> <li>Dual (IP+OSI) stack using PPP or LAP-D with tunneling functions to communicate between stacks.</li></ul></dd></dl> <p>To handle all of the possible management channels and signals, most modern network elements contain a router for the network commands and underlying (data) protocols. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Equipment">Equipment</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Equipment"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>With advances in SONET and SDH chipsets, the traditional categories of network elements are no longer distinct. Nevertheless, as network architectures have remained relatively constant, even newer equipment (including <a href="/wiki/Add-drop_multiplexer" title="Add-drop multiplexer">multi-service provisioning platforms</a>) can be examined in light of the architectures they will support. Thus, there is value in viewing new, as well as traditional, equipment in terms of the older categories. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regenerator">Regenerator</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Regenerator"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Traditional regenerators terminate the section overhead, but not the line or path. Regenerators extend long-haul routes in a way similar to most regenerators, by converting an optical signal that has already traveled a long distance into electrical format and then retransmitting a regenerated high-power signal. </p><p>Since the late 1990s, regenerators have been largely replaced by <a href="/wiki/Optical_amplifier" title="Optical amplifier">optical amplifiers</a>. Also, some of the functionality of regenerators has been absorbed by the transponders of wavelength-division multiplexing systems. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="STS_multiplexer_and_demultiplexer">STS multiplexer and demultiplexer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: STS multiplexer and demultiplexer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>STS multiplexer and demultiplexer provide the interface between an electrical tributary network and the optical network. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Add-drop_multiplexer">Add-drop multiplexer</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Add-drop multiplexer"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Add-drop_multiplexer" title="Add-drop multiplexer">Add-drop multiplexers</a> (ADMs) are the most common type of network elements. Traditional ADMs were designed to support one of the network architectures, though new generation systems can often support several architectures, sometimes simultaneously. ADMs traditionally have a <i>high-speed side</i> (where the full line rate signal is supported), and a <i>low-speed side</i>, which can consist of electrical as well as optical interfaces. The low-speed side takes in low-speed signals, which are multiplexed by the network element and sent out from the high-speed side, or vice versa. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Digital_cross_connect_system">Digital cross connect system</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Digital cross connect system"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Recent <a href="/wiki/Digital_cross_connect_system" class="mw-redirect" title="Digital cross connect system">digital cross connect systems</a> (DCSs or DXCs) support numerous high-speed signals, and allow for cross-connection of DS1s, DS3s and even STS-3s/12c and so on, from any input to any output. Advanced DCSs can support numerous subtending rings simultaneously. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Network_architectures">Network architectures</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Network architectures"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SONET and SDH have a limited number of architectures defined. These architectures allow for efficient bandwidth usage as well as protection (i.e. the ability to transmit traffic even when part of the network has failed), and are fundamental to the worldwide deployment of SONET and SDH for moving digital traffic. Every SDH/SONET connection on the optical physical layer uses two optical fibers, regardless of the transmission speed. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Linear_Automatic_Protection_Switching">Linear Automatic Protection Switching</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Linear Automatic Protection Switching"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Linear Automatic Protection Switching (APS), also known as <i>1+1</i>, involves four fibers: two working fibers (one in each direction), and two protection fibers. Switching is based on the line state, and may be unidirectional (with each direction switching independently), or bidirectional (where the network elements at each end negotiate so that both directions are generally carried on the same pair of fibers). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Unidirectional_path-switched_ring">Unidirectional path-switched ring</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Unidirectional path-switched ring"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In unidirectional path-switched rings (UPSRs), two redundant (path-level) copies of protected traffic are sent in either direction around a ring. A selector at the egress node determines which copy has the highest quality, and uses that copy, thus coping if one copy deteriorates due to a broken fiber or other failure. UPSRs tend to sit nearer to the edge of a network, and as such are sometimes called <i>collector rings</i>. Because the same data is sent around the ring in both directions, the total capacity of a UPSR is equal to the line rate <i>N</i> of the OC-<i>N</i> ring.<sup id="cite_ref-UPSR_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UPSR-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For example, in an OC-3 ring with 3 STS-1s used to transport 3 DS-3s from ingress node <i>A</i> to the egress node <i>D</i>, 100 percent of the ring bandwidth (<i>N</i>=3) would be consumed by nodes <i>A</i> and <i>D</i>. Any other nodes on the ring could only act as pass-through nodes. The SDH equivalent of UPSR is <i><a href="/wiki/Subnetwork_connection_protection" title="Subnetwork connection protection">subnetwork connection protection</a></i> (SNCP); SNCP does not impose a ring topology, but may also be used in mesh topologies. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Bidirectional_line-switched_ring">Bidirectional line-switched ring</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Bidirectional line-switched ring"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Bidirectional line-switched ring (BLSR) comes in two varieties: two-fiber BLSR and four-fiber BLSR. BLSRs switch at the line layer. Unlike UPSR, BLSR does not send redundant copies from ingress to egress. Rather, the ring nodes adjacent to the failure reroute the traffic "the long way" around the ring on the protection fibers. BLSRs trade cost and complexity for bandwidth efficiency, as well as the ability to support "extra traffic" that can be pre-empted when a protection switching event occurs. In four-fiber ring, either single node failures, or multiple line failures can be supported, since a failure or maintenance action on one line causes the protection fiber connecting two nodes to be used rather than looping it around the ring. </p><p>BLSRs can operate within a metropolitan region or, often, will move traffic between municipalities. Because a BLSR does not send redundant copies from ingress to egress, the total bandwidth that a BLSR can support is not limited to the line rate <i>N</i> of the OC-<i>N</i> ring, and can actually be larger than <i>N</i> depending upon the traffic pattern on the ring.<sup id="cite_ref-BLSR_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BLSR-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the best case, all traffic is between adjacent nodes. The worst case is when all traffic on the ring egresses from a single node, i.e., the BLSR is serving as a collector ring. In this case, the bandwidth that the ring can support is equal to the line rate <i>N</i> of the OC-<i>N</i> ring. This is why BLSRs are seldom, if ever, deployed in collector rings, but often deployed in inter-office rings. The SDH equivalent of BLSR is called <i>Multiplex Section-Shared Protection Ring</i> (MS-SPRING). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Synchronization">Synchronization</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Synchronization"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Clock sources used for synchronization in telecommunications networks are rated by quality, commonly called a <i><a href="/wiki/Synchronization_in_telecommunications" title="Synchronization in telecommunications">stratum</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Typically, a network element uses the highest quality stratum available to it, which can be determined by monitoring the synchronization status messages (SSM) of selected clock sources. </p><p>Synchronization sources available to a network element are:<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2012)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup> </p> <dl><dt>Local external timing</dt> <dd>This is generated by an <a href="/wiki/Cesium_clock" class="mw-redirect" title="Cesium clock">atomic cesium clock</a> or a satellite-derived clock by a device in the same central office as the network element. The interface is often a DS1, with sync-status messages supplied by the clock and placed into the DS1 overhead.</dd> <dt>Line-derived timing</dt> <dd>A network element can choose (or be configured) to derive its timing from the line-level, by monitoring the S1 sync-status bytes to ensure quality.</dd> <dt>Holdover</dt> <dd>As a last resort, in the absence of higher quality timing, a network element can go into a <a href="/wiki/Holdover_in_Synchronization_Applications" class="mw-redirect" title="Holdover in Synchronization Applications"><i>holdover</i></a> mode until higher-quality external timing becomes available again. In this mode, the network element uses its own timing circuits as a reference.</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Timing_loops">Timing loops</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Timing loops"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>A timing loop occurs when network elements in a network are each deriving their timing from other network elements, without any of them being a "master" timing source. This network loop will eventually see its own timing "float away" from any external networks, causing mysterious bit errors—and ultimately, in the worst cases, massive loss of traffic. The source of these kinds of errors can be hard to diagnose.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In general, a network that has been properly configured should never find itself in a timing loop, but some classes of silent failures could nevertheless cause this issue. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Next-generation_SONET/SDH"><span id="Next-generation_SONET.2FSDH"></span>Next-generation SONET/SDH</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Next-generation SONET/SDH"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1251242444"><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image"><div class="mbox-image-div"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" decoding="async" width="50" height="39" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="399" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Synchronous_optical_networking" title="Special:EditPage/Synchronous optical networking">improve this section</a> by <a href="/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">November 2010</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small><a href="/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p>SONET/SDH development was originally driven by the need to transport multiple PDH signals—like DS1, E1, DS3, and E3—along with other groups of multiplexed 64 kbit/s <a href="/wiki/Pulse-code_modulated" class="mw-redirect" title="Pulse-code modulated">pulse-code modulated</a> voice traffic. The ability to transport ATM traffic was another early application. In order to support large ATM bandwidths, concatenation was developed, whereby smaller multiplexing containers (e.g., STS-1) are inversely multiplexed to build up a larger container (e.g., STS-3c) to support large data-oriented pipes. </p><p>One problem with traditional concatenation, however, is inflexibility. Depending on the data and voice traffic mix that must be carried, there can be a large amount of unused bandwidth left over, due to the fixed sizes of concatenated containers. For example, fitting a 100 Mbit/s <a href="/wiki/Fast_Ethernet" title="Fast Ethernet">Fast Ethernet</a> connection inside a 155 Mbit/s STS-3c container leads to considerable waste. More important is the need for all intermediate network elements to support newly introduced concatenation sizes. This problem was overcome with the introduction of Virtual Concatenation. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Virtual_concatenation" title="Virtual concatenation">Virtual concatenation</a> (VCAT) allows for a more arbitrary assembly of lower-order multiplexing containers, building larger containers of fairly arbitrary size (e.g., 100 Mbit/s) without the need for intermediate network elements to support this particular form of concatenation. Virtual concatenation leverages the <a href="/w/index.php?title=X.86&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="X.86 (page does not exist)">X.86</a> or <a href="/wiki/Generic_Framing_Procedure" title="Generic Framing Procedure">Generic Framing Procedure</a> (GFP) protocols in order to map payloads of arbitrary bandwidth into the virtually concatenated container. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Link_Capacity_Adjustment_Scheme" title="Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme">Link Capacity Adjustment Scheme</a> (LCAS) allows for dynamically changing the bandwidth via dynamic virtual concatenation, multiplexing containers based on the short-term bandwidth needs in the network. </p><p>The set of next-generation SONET/SDH protocols that enable Ethernet transport is referred to as <a href="/wiki/Ethernet_over_SDH" title="Ethernet over SDH">Ethernet over SONET/SDH</a> (EoS). </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="End_of_life_and_retirement">End of life and retirement</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: End of life and retirement"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>SONET/SDH was used by <a href="/wiki/Internet_access_provider" class="mw-redirect" title="Internet access provider">internet access providers</a> for large customers, and is no longer competitive in the supply of private circuits. Development has stagnated for the last decade (2020) and both suppliers of equipment and operators of SONET/SDH networks are migrating to other technologies such as OTN and wide area Ethernet. </p><p>British Telecom has recently (March 2020) closed down their KiloStream and Mega Stream products which were the last large scale uses of the BT SDH. BT has also ceased new connections to their SDH network which indicates withdrawal of services soon.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Synchronous_optical_networking&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_device_bandwidths" class="mw-redirect" title="List of device bandwidths">List of device bandwidths</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Routing_and_wavelength_assignment" title="Routing and wavelength assignment">Routing and wavelength assignment</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Multiwavelength_optical_networking" title="Multiwavelength optical networking">Multiwavelength optical networking</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_mesh_network" title="Optical mesh network">Optical mesh network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Optical_Transport_Network" class="mw-redirect" title="Optical Transport Network">Optical Transport Network</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Remote_error_indication" title="Remote error indication">Remote error indication</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/G.709" title="G.709">G.709</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Transmux" title="Transmux">Transmux</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Internet_access" title="Internet access">Internet access</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a 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