PDH & SDH

1. PDH & SDH Delivered by: Dr. Erna Sri Sugesti

2. PDH • PLESIOCHRONOUS DIGITAL HIERARCHY. • A TECHNOLOGY USED IN TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORK TO TRANSPORT LARGE QUANTITY OF DATA OVER DIGITAL TRANSPORT EQUIPMENT SUCH AS FIBRE OPTIC AND MICROWAVE RADIO WAVE SYSTEMS. • THE TERM “PLESIOCHRONOUS” IS DERIVED FROM Greek plesio which means near, and chronous, time. • IT MEANS THAT PDH NETWORKS RUN IN A STATE WHERE DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE NETWORK ARE ALMOST, BUT NOT QUITE PERFECTLY SYNCHRONISED.

3. PDH • SENDING A LARGE QUANTITY OF DATA ON FIBRE OPTIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. • TRANSMISSION AND RECEPTION ARE SYNCHRONIZED BUT TIMING IS NOT. • THE CHANNEL CLOCKS ARE DERIVED FROM DIFFERENT MASTER CLOCKS WHOSE RANGE IS SPECIFIED TO LIE WITHIN CERTAIN LIMITS. THE MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL IS CALLED A “PLESIOCHRONOUS” SIGNAL. • PDH SIGNALS ARE NEITHER SYNCHRONOUS NOR ASYNCHRONOUS.

4. PDH • PDH ALLOWS TRANSMISSION OF DATA STREAMS THAT ARE NOMINALLY RUNNING AT THE SAME RATE, BUT ALLOWING SOME VARIATION ON THE SPEED AROUND A NOMINAL RATE. • BY ANALOGY, ANY TWO WATCHES ARE NOMINALLY RUNNING AT THE SAME RATE, CLOCKING UP 60 SECONDS EVERY MINUTE. • HOWEVER, THERE IS NO LINK BETWEEN WATCHES TO GUARANTEE THEY RUN AT EXACTLY THE SAME RATE. • IT IS HIGHLY LIKELY THAT ONE IS RUNNING SLIGHTLY FASTER THAN THE OTHER.

5. VERSIONS OF PDH • THERE ARE TWO VERSIONS OF PDH NAMELY • 1) THE EUROPEAN AND 2 ) THE AMERICAN. • THEY DIFER SLIGHTLY IN THE DETAIL OF THEIR WORKING BUT THE PRINCIPLES ARE THE SAME. • EUROPEAN PCM = 30 CHANNELS • NORTH AMERICAN PCM = 24 CHANNELS • JAPANESE PCM = 24 CHANNELS • IN INDIA WE FOLLOW THE EUROPEAN PCM OF 30 CHANNELS SYSTEM WORKING.

6. EUROPEAN DIGITAL HIERARCHY • 30 Channel PCM = 2 Mbps • 2 Mbps x 4 = 8 Mbps • 8 Mbps x 4 = 34 Mbps • 34 Mbps x 4 = 140 Mbps • 140 Mbps x 4 = 565 Mbps

7. EUROPEAN PDH HIERARCHY WITH BIT RATES

8. DESCRIPTION OF EUROPEAN E-CARRIER SYSTEM • THE BASIC DATA TRANSFER RATE IS A STREAM OF 2048 KBPS. • FOR SPEECH TRANSMISSION, THIS IS BROKEN DOWN INTO 30 X 64 KBIT/S CHANNELS PLUS 2 X 64 KBPS CHANNELS USED FOR SIGNALLING AND SYNCHRONIZATION. • ALTERNATIVELY, THE WHOLE 2 MB/S MAY BE USED FOR NON SPEECH PURPOSES, FOR EXAMPLE, DATA TRANSMISSION. • THE EXACT DATA RATE OF THE 2 MBPS DATA STREAM IS CONTROLLED BY A CLOCK IN THE EQUIPMENT GENERATING THE DATA. • THE EXACT RATE IS ALLOWED TO VARY SOME PERCENTAGE (+/- 50 PPM) EITHER SIDE OF AN EXACT 2.048 MBPS. • DIFERENT 2 MBPS DATA STREAMS CAN BE RUNNING AT SLIGHTLY DIFERENT RATES TO ONE ANOTHER.

9. MULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUE • IN ORDER TO MOVE MULTIPLE 2 MBPS DATA STREAMS FROM ONE PLACE TO ANOTHER, THEY ARE COMBINED TOGETHER OR “MULTIPLEXED” IN GROUPS OF FOUR. • THIS IS DONE BY TAKING 1 BIT FROM STREAM #1, FOLLOWED BY 1 BIT FROM STREAM #2, THEN #3, THEN #4. • THE TRANSMITTING MULIPLEXER ALSO ADDS ADDITIONAL BITS IN ORDER TO ALLOW THE FAR END RECEIVING MULTIPLEXER TO DECODE WHICH BITS BELONG TO WHICH 2 MBPS DATA STREAM, AND SO CORRECTLY RECONSTITUTE THE ORIGINAL DATA STREAMS. • THESE ADDITIONAL BITS ARE CALLED “JUSTIFICATION” BITS OR “STUFFING BITS”

10. 30 Chl Digital Hierarchy 8.448 Mbps 34.368 Mbps 139.264 Mbps 2.048 Mbps III Order Mux 480 Chls IV Order Mux 1920 Chls Primary Mux 30 Chls II order Mux 120 Chls X 4 X 4

11. DIGITAL MUX CONCEPTS • BIT INTERLEAVING: • ALTERNATELY EACH CHANNEL CODE CAN BE SCANNED ONE DIGIT AT A TIME. THE MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL IS CALLED A “BIT INTERLEAVED SIGNAL”. • “BIT INTERLEAVING” IS USED IN HIGHER ORDER MULTIPLEXING.

12. DIGITAL MUX CONCEPTS • BYTE INTERLEAVING • WORD / BYTE / BLOCK INTERLEAVING: • IF THE CHANNEL TIME SLOT IS LONG ENOUGH TO ACCOMMODATE A GROUP OF BITS THEN THE MULTIPLEXED SIGNAL IS CALLED A “ BYTE INTERLEAVED OR WORD INTERLEAVED SIGNAL”.

13. SLIP, JUSTIFICATION AND JITTER • SLIP – THIS OCCURS WHEN THE INCOMING BIT RATE DOES NOT MATCH WITH THE DIVIDED MUX/DEMUX CLOCK RATE. SAME BIT MAY BE READ TWICE OR LOSS OF BITS WILL OCCUR. • JUSTIFICATION:-IT IS A PROCESS OF ADDING ADDITIONAL BITS TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF SLIP. • JITTER:- DISPLACE MENT OF A PULSE FROM ITS NORMAL SIGNIFICANT INSTANT IS CALLED JITTER.

14. JUSTIFICATION -TYPES • JUSTIFICATION POSITIVE JUSTIFICATION NEGATIVE JUSTIFIATION POSITIVE-NEGATIVEJUSTIFICATION

15. JUSTIFICATION • IF MUX CLOCK RATE IS HIGHER THAN TRIBUTARY RATE, IT IS KNOWN AS POSITIVE JUSTIFICATION. THIS IS USED UPTO 140 MBPS SYSTEMS. • IF MUX CLOCK RATE IS LOWER THAN TRIBUTARY RATE, IT IS KNOWN AS NEGATIVE JUSTIFICATION. • IF ON AN AVERAGE, MUX CLOCK RATE AND TRIBUTARY BIT RATE ARE EQUAL, IT IS CALLED POSITIVE-NEGATIVE JUSTIFICATION.

16. PROBLEMS INVOLVED IN HIGHER ORDER MULTIPLEXING AND SOLUTIONS FOR THEM • MUX CLOCK SPEEDS SHOULD BE SAME AT BOTH THE ENDS. – SOLUTION :-THIS PROBLEM IS SOLVED BY USING P L L CIRCUIT AT TERMINAL “B” TO RECOVER THE CLOCK. • SYNCHRONIZATION:- SOLUTION- THIS IS SOLVED BY FRAME ALIGNMENT WORD (FAW). • TRIBUTARY BIT RATE AND MUX CLOCK (DIVIDED) SHOULD BE THE SAME:- SOLUTION - SOLVED BY PULSE STUFFING OR BIT STUFFING OR “ JUSTIFICATION” PROCESS. THISMEANS ADDING ADDITIONAL BITS.

17. FOTS • FIBRE OPTIC TRANSMISSION SYSTEM. • SUB SYSTEMS – • DIGITAL MULTIPLEX SUB SYSTEM. • OPTICAL LINE TRANSMISSION SUB SYSTEM. • CENTRAL SUPERVISORY SUB SYSTEM • POWER SUB SYSTEM • ALARM SUB SYSTEM

18. Fiber Optic Cable • Fig 6.6

19. FIBRE OPTIC CABLE • Fiber Optic Cable • Consists of many extremely thin strands of solid glass or plastic bound together in a sheathing • Transmits signals with light beams • No risk of sparks, safe for explosive environments • More expensive than coaxial, but more bandwidth • Different colors of light are used to simultaneously send • Multiple signals

20. OPTICAL LINE TRANSMISSION SUB SYSTEM • OPTICAL LINE TERMINATING EQUIPMENT. • LINE SWITCHING EQUIPMENTS • LINE SUPERVISORY EQUIPMENTS • ORDERWIRE EQUIPMENTS. • SUPERVISORY SERVICE DATA • REMOTE SERVICE DATA

21. LIMITATIONS • LOWER CAPACITY. • ADD AND DROP DIFFICULT. • COMPLEX MULTIPLEXING AND DEMULTIPLEXING. • NO UNIVERSAL STANDARD • INTERWORKING BETWEEN HIERARCHIES COMPLEX.

22. DISADVANTAGES OF PDH SYSTEM • PDH IS NOT IDEALLY SUITED TO THE EFFICIENT DELIVERY AND MANAGEMENT OF HIGH BANDWIDH CONNECTIONS. • PDH IS NO LONGER EFFICIENT TO MEET THE DEMANDS PLACED ON IT. • TO ACCESS THE LOWER ORDER TRIBUTARY, THE WHOLE SYSTEM SHOULD BE DEMULTIPLEXED. • BANDWIDTH LIMITATIONS – MAX CAPACITY IS 566 MBPS ONLY. • NO COMMON STANDARDS AMONG VENDORS. • TOLERANCE IS ALLOWED IN BIT RATES. • POINT TO POINT CONFIGURATION ( LINEAR WORKING ) ONLY IS POSSIBLE. • IT DOES NOT SUPPORT HUB. • NO PROVISIONING FOR NMS.

23. EVOLUTION OF SDH • FIBER OPTIC BANDWIDTH:Bandwidth of the optical fiber can be increased and there is no limit • TECHNICAL SOPHISTICATION:Using VLSI techniques which is also cost effective • INTELLIGENCE:Availability of cheaper memory opens new possibilities • CUSTOMER SERVICE NEEDS:Requirement of customer services can be easily met w/o much additional equipments

24. EVOLUTION OF SDH • TOTALLY SYNCHRONOUS SYSTEM. • INTERNATIONAL STANDARD/SYSTEM – MULTIPLEXING STANDARD. • IN 1988, (ITU-T) 18TH STUDY GROUP FORMULATED CERTAIN STANDARDS FOR MULTIPLEXING. • THE MAIN AIM IS TO ACCOMMODATE THE EXISTING PDH SIGNALS ALSO. • ADOPTING THE DIFFERENT VENDORS EQUIPMENTS. • DISADVANTAGES OF PDH LED TO THE INVENTION OF SDH.

25. DIFFERENT SERVICES • LOW/HIGH SPEED DATA • VOICE • INTERCONNECTION OF LAN • COMPUTER LINKS • FEATURE SERVICES LIKE HDTV • BROAD BAND ISDN TRANSPORT

26. EXISTING NETWORK 565 Mbps 565 mb/s 5 TH ORDER 140 Mbps 4 RTH ORDER 34 Mbps 3RD ORDER 8 Mbps 2 ND ORDER 2 Mbps

27. S D H ? WHAT IS SYNCHRONOUS : ONE MASTER CLOCK & ALL ELEMENTS SYNCHRONISE WITH IT. DIGITAL: INFORMATION IN BINARY. HIERARCHY: SET OF BIT RATES IN A HIERARCHIAL ORDER.

28. WHAT IS SDH? • SDH IS A HIERARCHICAL SET OF INFORMATION STRUCTURE (DIGITAL TRANSPORT STRUCTURE) TO CARRY PAY LOAD. • SDH MULTIPLEXING:- A PROCEDURE BY WHICH MULTIPLE LOWER ORDER PATH LAYER SIGNALS ARE ADAPTED INTO HIGHER ORDER PATH OR MULTIPLE HIGHER PATH LAYER SIGNALS ARE ADAPTED INTO MUX SECTION LAYER. • POINTER DEFINES FRAME OFFSET VALUE OF A VIRTUAL CONTAINER. • SDH MAPPING:- THE PROCEDURE BY WHICH THE TRIBUTARY ARE ADAPTED INTO VIRTUAL CONTAINERS AT THE BOUNDARY OF THE SDH NETWORK.

29. ADVANTAGES OF SDH • SIMPLIFIED MULTIPLEXING/DEMULTIPLEXING TECHNIQUES. • DIRECT ACCESS TO LOWER ORDER TRIBUTARIES. • ACCOMMODATES EXISTING PDH SIGNALS. • CAPABLE OF TRANSPORTING BROADBAND SIGNALS. • MULTI-VENDOR, MULTI OPERATOR ENVIRONMENT. • PROTECTION SWITCHING TO TRAFFIC IS OFFERED BY RINGS. • ENHANCED BANDWIDTH. • NMS FACILITY. • UNLIMITED BANDWIDTH • GROWTH OF THE EXISTING TO THE HIGHER ORDER SYSTEM IS SIMPLE.

31. The Container (C) • Basic packaging unit for tributary signals (PDH) • Synchronous to the STM-1 • Bitrate adaptation is done via a positive stuffing procedure • Adaptation of synchronous tributaries by fixed stuffing bits • Bit by bit stuffing • The Virtual Container (VC) • Formation of the Container by adding of a POH (Path Overhead) • Transport as a unit through the network (SDH) • A VC containing several VCs has also a pointer area

32. The Tributary Unit (TU) • Is formed via adding a pointer to the VC • The Tributary Unit Group (TUG) • Combines several TUs for a new VC • The Administrative Unit (AU) • Is shaped if a pointer is allocated to the VC formed at last • The Syncronous Transport Module Level 1 (STM-1) • Formed by adding a Section Overhead (SOH) to AUs • Clock justification through positive-zero-negative stuffing in the AU pointer area • byte by byte stuffing

33. STM1 Frames

34. 270 Columns (Bytes) transmit row by row 270 9 1 1 RSOH 3 Payload 4 AU Pointer (transport capacity) 5 MSOH 9 RSOH: Regenerator section overhead MSOH: Multiplex section overhead Payload: Area for information transport Transport capacity of one Byte: 64 kbit/s Frame capacity: 270 x 9 x 8 x 8000 = 155.520 Mbit/s Frame repetition time: 125 µs

35. FRAME REPRESENTATION 9TH ROW 2ND ROW 3RD ROW 1ST ROW 9 261 9 261 9 261 9 261 9 261 I I I S O H PAY LOAD 270 I I (MATRIX REPRESENTATION)

36. REDUCED MUX STRUCTURE 140Mbps C-4 VC-4 STM-N AUG AU-4 TU-3 TUG-3 VC-3 34Mbps C-3 TUG-2 2Mbps VC-1 C-1 TU-1 (REDUCED DIAGRAM FOR SDH-MULTIPLEXING)

37. Container Carries signals at C-11 1.544 Mbit/s C-12 2.048 Mbit/s C-2 6.312 Mbit/s C-3 34.368 Mbit/s and 44.736 Mbit/s C-4 139.264 Mbit/s Containers: C-3, C-2, C-12 and C-11

38. TERMINOLOGY & DEFINITIONS • SDH:Set of hierarchical structures,standardized for the transport of suitably adapted pay load over physical transmission network • STM:Synchronous transport module • It is the information structure used to support section layer connections in SDH • VIRTUAL CONTAINER :used to support path layer connections in the SDH • LOWER ORDER VC ( VC1,VC2,VC3) • HIGHER ORDER VC (VC3 ,VC4)

39. SDH BIT RATES

40. SOH BYTE ALLOCATION

41. STM-1 TU-12 VC-12 VC-4 C-12 AU-4 TUG-3 TUG-2 AUG STM-n AUG AU-n VC-n 2 Mbps mapping x3 x7 Synchronous Transport Module Administrative Unit Group: One or more AU(s) Administrative Unit: VC + pointers Virtual Container: payload + path overhead x3 E1: 2.048Mb/s

42. The following are the different steps in the mapping of 2Mbps stream • Formation of container C12 • Formation of virtual container VC12 • Formation of tributary unit TU12 • Multiplexing of TU12 ‘s to form TUG3 • Multiplexing of TUG3‘s to form VC4 • Formation of administrative unit AU4 • Formation of administrative unit group AUG • Adding SOH to form STM1

43. SDH NETWORK ELEMENTS • The different network elements are • SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLEXER • SYNCHRONOUS DIGITAL CROSS CONNECT • REGENERATOR • NMS

44. NETWORK ELEMENTS • SYNCHRONOUS MULTIPLEXER • As per ITU-T Rec. synchronous multiplexer performs both multiplexing and live line terminating functions. • synchronous multiplexer replaces a bank of plesiochronous multiplexers and associated line terminating equipment.

45. SYNCHRONOUS MUX • Types of synchronous multiplexers • TERMINAL MULTIPLEXER(TM) • ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER(ADM)

46. TM • TERMINAL MULTIPLEXER(TM) • TM Accepts a no. Of tributary signals and multiplex them to appropriate optical/electrical aggregate signal viz STM1,STM4,STM16 etc.

47. TERMINAL MULTIPLEXER(TM)

48. ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER(TM) ADM is designed for ‘THRU’ mode of operation. Within ADM its possible to ADD channels or DROP channels from ‘THROUGH CHANNELS’

49. ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER(TM) At an ADM site ,only those signals that need to be accessed are dropped or inserted The remaining traffic continues thru the NE without requiring special pass thru units or other signal processing

50. ADM • ADD DROP MULTIPLEXER(TM) AGGREGATE SIGNAL AGGREGATE SIGNAL SDH(E/O) SDH(E/O) ADM (PDH/SDH) TRIBUTARY SIGNALS