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- From: aa439@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Clark)
- Subject: Re: t1 lines
- Message-ID: <1993Jan23.050609.26457@freenet.carleton.ca>
- Sender: news@freenet.carleton.ca (News Administrator)
- Reply-To: aa439@Freenet.carleton.ca (Robert Clark)
- Organization: The National Capital Freenet
- References: <1jopksINNjjh@matt.ksu.ksu.edu>
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 05:06:09 GMT
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- In a previous article, flakebit@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (skully the automaton.) says:
-
- >Hello. How do T1 lines differ from common telephone lines,
- >and are they dedicated to internet and other global nets?
- >
- >
-
- I'll take a stab, but any telecommunications engineers feel free to
- correct me !!
-
- T1 is the common term for what is also known as DS1 in the _d_igital
- _s_ynchronous hierarchy for electrical transmission (i.e. coax
- cable, twisted pair, etc.)
-
- The DSn heirarchy runs like this:
-
- Level Rate Relation to Typical use
- other levels
-
- DS0 64 kbps (root) voice, 56 kbps data
-
- DS1 1.544 Mbps 24 * DS0 voice, pbx trunk, data, video
- conferencing
-
- DS2 6.0 Mbps 6 * DS1 high capacity trunking
-
- DS3 45 Mbps 28 * DS1 high capacity trunking, video
-
-
- i.e. they are multiplexed:
-
- 24*DS0
- |\
- 1 ------| \
- 2 ------| \
- . | \ 28*DS1 |\
- . | /-1----------| \
- 24 ------| / 2 ---------| \
- |/ 3 ---------| \ 1*DS3
- 4 ---------| \----------------
- . | /
- . | /
- 28 -------- |/
-
-
- Multiplexing uses time-division so that:
-
- DS0 = 1 byte every 125 usec (i.e. = 64 kbps)
-
- multiplexes to
-
- { ---------- 125 usec ---------}
- DS1 [header|01|02|03|...|24|CRC] [header|01|02|03|...|24|CRC]
- where 01=byte 1 from 1st DS0 where 01=byte 2 from 1st DS0
- 24=byte 1 from 24th DS0 24=byte 2 from 24th DS0
-
- and to DS3 similarly.
-
-
- Wow ... probably more than you wanted to know when you asked, and I
- might be corrected by the experts ... my background is business
- admin, not engineering!
-