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SDH STANDARDS
SDH is a European version of SONET
standard which is an ANSI standard. The new standard appeared first
as SONET, drafted by Bellcore in the United States, and then went
through revisions before it emerged in a new form compatible with
the international SDH.
The original SDH standard defined the transport of 1.5/2/6/34/45/140
Mbps within a transmission rate of 155.52 Mbps and is being developed
to carry other types of traffic, such as asynchronous transfer mode
(ATM) and Internet protocol (IP), within rates that are integer
multiples of 155.52 Mbps. The basic unit of transmission in SONET
is at 51.84 Mbps, but in order to carry 140 Mbps, SDH is based on
three times this (i.e., 155.52 Mbps [155 Mbps]).
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