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    Synchronous Optical Network (SONET)

    Fall Semester, 2008. School of Computer Science & Engineering, Seoul National University. Professor Yanghee Choi Student : MyungHoon Kim

    1. What is SDH/SONET
    1.Introduction to SONET
    Synchronous optical network (SONET) is a standard for optical telecommunications transport. It was formulated by the ECSA for ANSI, which sets industry standards in the United States for telecommunications and other industries. The comprehensive SONET/synchronous digital hierarchy (SDH) standard is expected to provide the transport infrastructure for worldwide telecommunications for at least the next two or three decades. The increased configuration flexibility and bandwidth availability of SONET provides significant advantages over the older telecommunications system.

    2. Background
    Before SONET, the first generations of fiber-optic systems in the public telephone network used proprietary architectures, equipment, line codes, multiplexing formats, and maintenance procedures. The users of this equipment regional Bell operating companies and interexchange carriers (IXCs) in the United States, Canada, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong standards so that they could mix and match equipment from different suppliers. The task of creating such a standard was taken up in 1984 by the ECSA to establish a standard for connecting one fiber system to another. This standard is called SONET.

    2. Frame Format Structure


    1. In general, the frame can be divided into two
    main areas: transport overhead and the synchronous payload envelope (SPE).

    2. The synchronous payload envelope


    can also be divided into two parts: the STS path overhead (POH) and the payload. The payload is the revenue-producing traffic being transported and routed over the SONET network. Once the payload is multiplexed into the synchronous payload envelope, it can be transported and switched through SONET without having to be examined and possibly demultiplexed at intermediate nodes.

    3. STS-1
    STS-1 is a specific sequence of 810 bytes (6,480 bits), which includes various overhead bytes and an envelope capacity for transporting payloads. It can be depicted as a 90-column by 9-row structure. With a frame length of 125 us (8,000 frames per second), STS-1 has a bit rate of 51.840 Mbps. The order of transmission of bytes is row-by-row from top to bottom and from left to right (most significant bit first).

    4. Frame Transmission
    STS : Synchronous Transport Signal STS
    STS-1 STS-3

    OC
    OC-1 OC-3

    Rate (Mbps)
    51.84 155.52

    SPE (Mbps)
    50.12 150.336

    User (Mbps)
    49.536 148.608

    STS-9
    STS-12 STS-18 STS-24 STS-36 STS-48

    OC-9
    OC-12 OC-18 OC-24 OC-36 OC-48

    466.56
    622.08 933.12 1244.16 1866.23 2488.32

    451.008
    601.344 902.016 1202.688 1804.032 2405.376

    445.824
    594.432 891.648 1188.864 1783.296 2377.728

    STS-192

    OC-192

    9953.28

    9621.604

    9510.912

    5. Overheads

    The following sections detail the SONET overhead information:


    Section overhead Line overhead VT POH

    5. SONET Multiplexing
    One of the benefits of SONET is that it can carry large payloads (above 50 Mbps). However, the existing digital hierarchy signals can be accommodated as well, thus protecting investments in current equipment. To achieve this capability, the STS SPE can be sub-divided into smaller components or structures, known as VT, for the purpose of transporting and switching payloads smaller than the STS-1 rate. And Multiplex the signal.

    6. SONET Network Elements


    Regenerator
    A regenerator is needed when, due to the long distance between multiplexers, the signal level in the fiber becomes too low. Add/Drop Multiplexer (ADM) A single-stage multiplexer/demultiplexer can multiplex various inputs into an OC signal. At an add/drop site, only those signals that need to be accessed are dropped or inserted. The remaining traffic continues through the network element without requiring special pass-through units or other signal processing.

    7. Synchronous & Asynchronous Communication


    1. Synchronous Transformations A synchronous transformation processes incoming rows and passes them on in the data flow one row at a time. Output is synchronous with input, meaning that it occurs at the same time. Therefore, to process a given row, the transformation does not need information about other rows in the data set. In the actual implementation, rows are grouped into buffers as they pass from one component to the next, but these buffers are transparent to the user, and you can assume that each row is processed separately. 2. Asynchronous transmission Primarily when the data to be transmitted is generated at random intervals

    the user keys in each character at an indeterminate rate with possibly long random time intervals between each successive typed character each transmitted character or byte is encapsulated

    Start bit and one or more stop bits

    3. SONET In a synchronous system such as SONET, the average frequency of all clocks in the system will be the same (synchronous) or nearly the same (plesiochronous). Every clock can be traced back to a highly stable reference supply.

    8. What Are the Benefits of SONET?

    Reduction in equipment requirements and an increase in network reliability


    Definition of a synchronous multiplexing format for carrying lower level digital signals and a synchronous structure that greatly simplifies the interface to digital switches, digital cross-connect switches, and add-drop multiplexers Availability of a set of generic standards that enable products from different vendors to be connected

    Definition of a flexible architecture capable of accommodating future applications, with a variety of transmission rates

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