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Emerging Systems and the Future of SDH
When the demand for long-distance data trafc arose, it was carried on the
available telecommunication backbone, which was designed and optimized
for voice trafc. This backbone was initially built over analog lines on copper
pairs, coaxial cables, microwaves, etc. It initially migrated to the digital tech-
nology without any change in the media with PDH multiplexing and trans-
mission. The backbone nally switched over to the SDH multiplexing with
optical transmission of lasers on optical ber cables. With the huge capac-
ity of optical bers, the advancement of technology and scales of economy
with ...