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- Recommendation Q.511
- EXCHANGE INTERFACES TOWARDS OTHER EXCHANGES
- 1 General
- This Recommendation applies to digital local, combined, transit and
- international exchanges for telephony in Integrated Digital Networks (IDN) and
- mixed (analogue/digital) networks, and also to local, combined, transit and
- international exchanges in an Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).
- The field of application of this Recommendation is more fully defined in
- Recommendation Q.500.
- 2 Scope of Recommendation
- This Recommendation is not intended to define any systems or equipment in
- or connected to, a digital exchange via these interfaces. Therefore only the
- characteristics of the interfaces are described.
- The exchange interfaces described in this Recommendation are used to
- connect these exchanges to transmission facilities towards other exchanges.
- All interfaces that have been studied in detail are described, and
- illustrated in Figure 1/Q.511 but it is not intended to specify every interface.
- Other interfaces are for further study (e.g., those for broadband facilities).
- 3 Characteristics of digital interfaces towards other exchanges
- 3.1 Interface A
- 3.1.1 General
- Interface A is a digital interface to allow interconnection at the first
- level of a digital transmission hierarchy towards other exchanges.
- 3.1.2 Electrical characteristics
- The electrical characteristics of interface A are described in
- Recommendation G.703.
- The frame structure at interface A should be identical to that of the
- first order multiplexes described in Recommendations G.704 and G.705.
- Timing in the transmitting direction will be derived within the digital
- exchange.
- Figure 1/Q.511 - T1115680-88
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- 3.1.3 Channel types, channel allocation and signalling:
- - number of channel timeslots per frame: 32/24, numbered 0-31/1-24;
- - additional channel timeslots may be utilized for common channel
- signalling when more signalling capacity is required between exchanges.
- For 2048 kbit/s systems, they should be selected from the channel
- timeslots allocated in PCM multiplexes for data purposes according to
- Recommendation G.735. When no such channel timeslots are allocated or
- available, additional channel timeslots may be selected from channel
- timeslots allocated for voice channels.
- For 2048 kbit/s systems:
- - channel timeslot 16 is primarily intended for signalling but should be
- switchable. On systems between exchanges (not involving PCM primary
- muldex) when channel 16 is not assigned to carry signalling it may be
- allocated to speech or other srvices;
- - channel timeslot 0 is used for frame alignment, alarm indication,
- network synchronization and other purposes;
- - although no specific application is at present foreseen for switching
- timeslot 0, it is recommended that the possibility of read and write
- access to this timeslot should be retained as a safeguard for future
- requirements. Such access would allow processing of some or all of the
- information contained in this timeslot, in particular those bits
- reserved for national and international use. The need to switch channel
- timeslot 0 as a normal channel, without special access, requires
- further study. In any case the incoming frame alignment signal will not
- be passed through the exchange to an outgoing system.
- 3.1.4 Functional characteristics
- The use of the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) procedures described in
- Recommendation G.704 is recommended for interfaces which carry ISDN traffic and
- optional for other applications. The frame alignment, CRC multiframe alignment
- and CRC monitoring functions are in accordance with Recommendation G.706.
- 3.2 Interface B
- 3.2.1 General
- Interface B is a digital interface to allow interconnection at the second
- level of a digital transmission hierarchy towards other exchanges.
- 3.2.2 Electrical characteristics
- The electrical characteristics of interface B are described in
- Recommendation G.703.
- The frame structure at interface B should be identical to that of the
- second order multiplexes described in Recommendations G.704 and G.705.
- Timing in the transmitting direction will be derived within the digital
- exchange.
- 3.2.3 Channel types, channel allocation and signalling:
- - number of channels: 132/98 numbered 0-131/1-98.
- For 8448 kbit/s systems:
- - where signalling capacity is required between exchanges, timeslots 67,
- 68, 69 and 70 can be utilized for signalling in this order of
- descending priority. Those channels not used for signalling can be used
- for speech or other purposes. If a channel timeslot is reserved for
- service purposes within the switch, it shall be channel timeslot 1;
- - it is left for mutual agreement whether or not channel timeslot 1 will
- carry traffic;
- - 128 of the channel timeslots may carry traffic through the exchange.
- For 6312 kbit/s systems:
- - the multiplex structure contains 5 bits and 98 channel timeslots,
- numbered 1-98, each of 64 kbit/s, of which 96 may carry traffic through
- the exchange;
- - five bits per frame are assigned for a frame alignment signal and for
- other signals. Timeslots 97 and 98 are assigned to signalling between
- exchanges.
- 3.2.4 Functional characteristics
- The use of the Cyclic Redundancy Check (CRC) procedures described in
- Recommendation G.704, is recommended for interfaces which carry ISDN traffic and
- optional for other applications. The frame alignment, CRC multiframe alignment
- and CRC monitoring functions are in accordance with Recommendation G.706.
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- 4.1 Interface C
- 4.1.1 General
- Interface C is a 2-wire or a 4-wire analogue interface, used where direct
- interconnection analogue facilities is required. This implies that a PCM codec,
- associated with this interface, is incorporated in the digital exchange. The
- equipment on the exchange side of interface C may include a muldex within the
- exchange termination functions. Differences in circuit configurations with
- respect to transmission parameters are likely to result in the need to specify a
- number of different C interfaces, depending on the application environment. This
- is likely to reduce the flexibility in interconnection possibilities. These C
- interfaces are specified in Recommendation Q.551. The transmission
- characteristics of 2-wire interface C2 are described in Recommendation Q.552 and
- of 4-wire interface C1 in Recommendation Q.553.
- 4.1.2 Channel types, channel allocation and signalling
- The signalling characteristics of interface C vary considerably from
- country to country, and therefore it is not intended that this interface should
- be the subject of CCITT Recommendations beyond those aspects covered in
- Recommendations Q.552 and Q.553.
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