
89network ConCePts and design
As the amount of data is growing exponentially, the T-series standards are not able
to meet the needs of today’s data communication. e new standards called Optical
Carrier (OC) have been created for OCs. e data transmission rates in the OC stan-
dards can reach as high as 40 Gbps. e features provided by the commonly used OC
standards are listed in Table 3.4.
As an older technology, the digital telephone technology ISDN can also be used to
connect the sites in a WAN. ISDN has the data transmission rate of 64Kbps, which is
much slower than those of the T-series standards and DC standards. However, ISDN
can deliver ...