
450 Principles of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy
43. What are the terms “steering” and “wrapping” in the context of
RPR?
44. Discuss in brief the management features of RPR.
45. What are the advantaged of RPR over SDH?
46. Dene MSPP, MSSP, and MSTN.
47. What are the WDM and OTN technologies? Explain briey.
48. What do you think is going to be the technology of the future—
SDH, pure data network, or OTN? Why?
Critical Thinking Questions
1. Plan and explain with schematic diagram a sample data trafc being
carried over SDH.
2. What is your own perception of a development and deployment sce-
nario of various technologies i