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SDH multiplex structure

Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SDH) is a CCITT standard for a
hierarchy of optical transmission rates. Synchronous Optical
Network (SONET) is an ANSI (American National Standards
Institute) standard for North America, that is largely equivalent
to SDH.

Both are widely spread technologies for very high speed

transmission of voice and data signals across the numerous
world-wide fiber-optic networks.
SDH and SONET are point-to-point synchronous networks that
use TDM multiplexing across a ring or mesh physical topology.

The main difference between both standards are the some

header/pointer informations and the transmission rates.
The base transport module of SDH is the synchronous transport
module with a transmission rate of 155,52mbps (STM-1), SONET
uses OC-1 (~51mbs) as base module.

SDH/SONET transmission rates

PDH PDH
SDH SONET
(USA ) (Europe)

Bit
Rate Name Name Container Transport Container Transport
(Mbps)

STS/OC-
40000 STM-256
768
STS/OC-
10000 STM-64
192
STS/OC-
2500 STM-16
48
STS/OC-
622 STM-4
12
STS/OC-
155 STM-1
3
140 E4 VC4
STS/OC-
51
1
DS- STS-1
45
3/T3 SPE
34 E3 VC3
8 E2
VT6 (not
DS-
6 really
2/T2
used)
2 E1 VC12

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1,5 DS- VT1.5
1/T1
DS-
0,064 E0/D64S
0/T0

SDH multiplex structure

The SDH multiplex structure shown in the picture is defined in
ITU-T G.707 and describes how low order signals are multiplexed
into higher multiplex levels.

KLM values
Imagine you have a large number of E1 customer aggregated on
a PA- MC- STM- 1SMI
[http://www.cisco.com/en/US/prod/collateral/mod
ules/ps2033/ps2762/product_data_sheet09186a0
08007d6c0.html] (Cisco) or a PE- 1CHSTM1- SMIR- QPP
[http://www.juniper.net/us/en/local/pdf/datashee
ts/1000202-en.pdf] (Juniper).
The low order signal is transported over an SDH network,
through the númerous multiplex levels, and is terminated on
your channelized STM-1 card.
For configuring the customers interface on the aggregation
device, you need to know in which timeslot the customers E1
resides.

–> This position is specified by the KLM values.

Here’s an overview for the KLM values of a STM-1:

Timeslot TUG-3 TUG-2 VC-12 (–> E1) KLM

1 1 1 1 1.1.1
2 1 1 2 1.1.2
3 1 1 3 1.1.3
4 1 2 1 1.2.1
5 1 2 2 1.2.2
6 1 2 3 1.2.3
7 1 3 1 1.3.1
8 1 3 2 1.3.2
9 1 3 3 1.3.3

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10 1 4 1 1.4.1
11 1 4 2 1.4.2
12 1 4 3 1.4.3
13 1 5 1 1.5.1
14 1 5 2 1.5.2
15 1 5 3 1.5.3
16 1 6 1 1.6.1
17 1 6 2 1.6.2
18 1 6 3 1.6.3
19 1 7 1 1.7.1
20 1 7 2 1.7.2
21 1 7 3 1.7.3
22 2 1 1 2.1.1
23 2 1 2 2.1.2
24 2 1 3 2.1.3
25 2 2 1 2.2.1
26 2 2 2 2.2.2
27 2 2 3 2.2.3
28 2 3 1 2.3.1
29 2 3 2 2.3.2
30 2 3 3 2.3.3
31 2 4 1 2.4.1
32 2 4 2 2.4.2
33 2 4 3 2.4.3
34 2 5 1 2.5.1
35 2 5 2 2.5.2
36 2 5 3 2.5.3
37 2 6 1 2.6.1
38 2 6 2 2.6.2
39 2 6 3 2.6.3
40 2 7 1 2.7.1
41 2 7 2 2.7.2

42 2 7 3 2.7.3
43 3 1 1 3.1.1
44 3 1 2 3.1.2
45 3 1 3 3.1.3
46 3 2 1 3.2.1
47 3 2 2 3.2.2
48 3 2 3 3.2.3
49 3 3 1 3.3.1
50 3 3 2 3.3.2
51 3 3 3 3.3.3

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52 3 4 1 3.4.1
53 3 4 2 3.4.2
54 3 4 3 3.4.3
55 3 5 1 3.5.1
56 3 5 2 3.5.2
57 3 5 3 3.5.3
58 3 6 1 3.6.1
59 3 6 2 3.6.2
60 3 6 3 3.6.3
61 3 7 1 3.7.1
62 3 7 2 3.7.2
63 3 7 3 3.7.3

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31 comments to SDH multiplex

structure

Vijay Kumar
May 27th, 2009 at 6:31 am [http://www.net-
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p=809&cpage=1#comment-26]
This is good litrature but I want to know more detailes about
SDH,KLM, Frame Structure and its Components

Abraham
June 20th, 2009 at 5:22 am [http://www.net-
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p=809&cpage=1#comment-34]
Really easy to understand, What is the abbreviated word for
KLM ?

admin
June 20th, 2009 at 7:10 pm [http://www.net-
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p=809&cpage=1#comment-36]
Sorry, i don’t know what it stands for.

rajendra
[http://IwanttoknowfullformofKLM?]

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