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SDH Architectures

SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy) is an international ITU-T standard that defines a common architecture for telecommunications services on a worldwide scale and efficiently replaces PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy).

Course Contents

  1. Introduction to Communications Systems
  2. PDH and T-Carrier
  3. Basic Rates: T1 and E1
  4. PDH
  5. The T-Carrier Hierarchy
  6. SDH/SONET Networks
  7. Comparison of SDH and SONET
  8. SDH/SONET Formats and Procedures
  9. SDH Transport Services
  10. Pointers and Timing Compensation
  11. Overheads
  12. Concatenation
  13. Maintenance
  14. Performance Monitoring
  15. SDH Resilience
  16. Operation, Administration and Maintenance
  17. Synchronisation Networks
  18. Synchronisation of Transmission Networks
  19. Test and Measurement

Course Profile

  • Target group: Network designers, Installers, Operators
  • Prerequisites: Basic knowledge of transmission
  • Duration: 10 h - two sessions
  • Evaluation: Test (upon request)
  • Language: English or Spanish

Course Kit

  • NG-SDH book
  • Presentation slides
  • 10 x Pocket Guides
  • White Papers