
Chapter 1 Product Overview
OSM Technology Overview
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SONET is not limited to optical links. Electrical specifications have been defined
for single-mode fiber, multimode fiber, and CATV 75-ohm coaxial cable. OSMs
currently allow transmission only over single-mode and multimode optical fiber.
Transmission rates are integral multiples of 51.840 Mbps, which can be used to
carry T3/E3 bit-synchronous signals.
The following transmission multiples are currently specified and commonly used:
• STS-3c—155.520 Mbps
• STS-12c—622.080 Mbps
• STS-48c—2,488.320 Mbps
ATM Overview
ATM uses cell-switching and multiplexing technology that combines the features
of circuit switching (constant transmission delay and guaranteed capacity) with
the features of packet switching (flexibility and efficiency for intermittent traffic).
ATM is a connection-oriented environment. All traffic to or from an ATM network
is prefaced with a virtual path identifier (VPI) and virtual channel identifier
(VCI). A VPI/VCI pair is considered a single virtual circuit. Each virtual circuit
is a private connection to another node on the ATM network. Each virtual circuit
is treated as a point-to-point mechanism to another router or host and is capable
of supporting bidirectional traffic.
Each ATM node is required to establish a separate connection to every other node
in the ATM network that it must communicate with. All of these connections are
established using a permanent virtual circuit (PVC), which a network operator
configures, or an switched virtual circuit (SVC), which is set up and torn down
with an ATM signaling mechanism. This signaling is based on the ATM Forum
User-Network Interface (UNI) Specification V3.x, 4.0.
SONET
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1. ANSI-defined SONET specifications
SDH Equivalent
STS-3c STM-1
STS-12c STM-4c
STS-48c STM-16c
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