Agilent Technologies 81250

How the Frame Generator Works Synchronizing Pattern

22 Agilent 81250 ParBERT SONET/SDH Frame Generator, November 2002

Contents

Main 2 Important Notice Contents Introduction to the Frame Generator Using the Frame Generator How the Frame Generator Works Graphical User Interface Reference Page Introduction to the Frame Generator What the Frame Generator Does Installing the Software Page Using the Frame Generator 8 Generating Frame Files Importing Frames into ParBERT Editing Frame Files Page Selecting the Files to be Generated 12 Converting Frame Files How the Frame Generator Works How Frames are Generated BIP Coding Payload Details 16 SONET Path Overhead and SDH HP B3 Byte G1 Path Status Byte All Other Path Overhead SONET Line Overhead and SDH MS Pointer Bytes K2 Byte 18 B2 Bytes SONET Section Overhead and SDH RS B1 Byte Framing Out Of Frame (OOF) J0/Z0 Section Trace/Growth Bytes All Other Section Overhead 20 CMI Coding Synchronizing Pattern Page Page Graphical User Interface Reference Settings Area Page Page Menus File Menu View Menu Help Menu Tool Bar Page Page Index