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Optical Network Design and Implementation
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Optical Network Design and Implementation

by Vivek Alwayn
March 2004
Intermediate to advanced
840 pages
21h 45m
English
Cisco Press
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packet switching.

An efficient method for breaking down and handling high-volume traffic in a network; a transmission technique that segments and routes information into discrete units.

parity check.

An error-checking scheme that examines the number of transmitted bits in a block that hold the value 1; for even parity, an overhead parity bit is set to either 1 or 0 to make the total number.

path.

A logical connection between the point where an STS or VT is multiplexed up to the point where it is demultiplexed.

payload.

The portion of the SONET or SDH signal available to carry service signals, such as DS-1 and DS-3; the contents of an STS SPE or VT SPE.

payload pointer.

Indicates the beginning of the synchronous payload envelope (SPE).

photon. ...
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