SDH Principles: SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDH Principles: SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
SDH Principles: SDH: Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
Advantages of SDH
1. Interfaces
Electrical interfaces:-Can be connected to all existing PDH signals.
Optical interfaces:-Can be connected to multiple vendors’ optical
transmission equipment.
2. Multiplexing methods
Basic rate is STM-1, other rates are multiples of the basic rate
3.OAM function
Abundant overheads bytes for automation, network monitoring and
maintenance
4. Compatibility
Working with all kinds of signals like PDH, SDH, ATM & FDDI
Section Overhead
Pointer
1. Mapping
A process used when tributaries are adapted into VCs by adding
justification bits and POH information
2. Aligning
This process takes place when a pointer is included in a Tributary Unit
(TU)or an Administrative Unit (AU), to allow the 1st byte of the VC to be
located
3. Multiplexing
This process is used when multiple low-order path signals are adapted
into a higher-order path signal, or when high-order path signals are
adapted into a Multiplex Section
4. Stuffing
As the tributary signals are multiplexed and aligned, some spare capacity
has been designed into the SDH frame to provide enough space for all
various tributary rates.Therefore, at certain points in the multiplexing
hierarchy, this space capacity is filled with “fixed stuffing” bits that carry no
information, but are required to fill up the particular frame
SDH Rates: