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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816069203321

Titolo

Installation and maintenance of SDH/SONET, ATM, xDSL, and synchronization networks / / Jose M. Caballero ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA, : Artech House, c2003

ISBN

1-58053-698-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (454 p.)

Collana

Artech House telecommunications library

Altri autori (Persone)

CaballeroJose Manuel

Disciplina

621.382/1

621.3821

Soggetti

Computer networks - Standards

Computer network protocols

Computer networks - Management

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; PDH and T-Carrier: The Plesiochronous Hierarchies; 1.1 An Introduction to Communications Systems; 1.2 Pulse Code Modulation; 1.3 PDH and T-Carrier; 1.4 The E1 Frame; 1.5 The Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy; 1.6 Managing Alarms in Higher Level Hierarchies; 1.7 The T-Carrier Hierarchy; SDH/SONET: The Synchronous Hierarchies; 2.1 The Emergence of SDH/SONET Networks; 2.2 Comparison of SDH and SONET; 2.3 Functional Architecture; 2.4 SDH/SONET Formats and Procedures; 2.5 SDH Transport Services; 2.6 Transporting PDH/T-Carrier Tributaries; 2.7 Pointers and Timing Compensation.

2.8 Overheads2.9 Concatenation; 2.10 Maintenance; 2.11 Performance Monitoring; 2.12 Defects; 2.13 SDH Resilience; 2.14 Operation, Administration, and Management; 2.15 Next Generation SDH; ATM Architectures; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Basic Principles of ATM; 3.3 ATM Network Architecture; 3.4 ATM Adaptation Level Structures; 3.5 Quality o.

Sommario/riassunto

Service level agreements guaranteeing quality of service have helped your organization to keep old customers and win new ones over. Although it may be easy for the sales department to ink a service level agreement, you have to handle the constant problems of phase fluctuations, jitter, and wander, that threaten the quality of service



spelled out in these service level agreements.