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Although higher rates than those shown in Figure 10.3 were also sparingly
used, they had been mostly proprietary designs of the manufacturers and
were not standardized by ITU-T.
10.2.5 Vendor Compatibility
The optical interface has been standardized in SDH. Before SDH, they were
not standardized, thus every vendor was using a different interface, leading
to incompatibility with the other. With the optical compatibility between the
equipment of various vendors, the equipment pertaining to different ven-
dors can be connected together without any special interface device. This
has proven to be a revol ...