B-22SYNCHRONIZATION OF DIGITAL FACILITIES

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DIGITAL TRANSMISSION FACILITY

 

 

 

PRIMARY FREQUENCY REFERENCE

 

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SECONDARY (BACKUP) FREQUENCY REFERENCE

 

Figure B-14.Improper Use of Backup Facilities

Availability is defined as the ratio of the mean time between failures (the average time between successive system failures, abbreviated MTBFs) to the sum of the MTBFs and the mean time to repair (the total maintenance time divided by the total number of failures during the same amount of time abbreviated MTTR). Low availability (poor transmission performance) is used as a criterion to reject a facility as a reference candidate or to reassign one already chosen.

Characteristics that primarily determine the availability of a transmission facility are rank-ordered as follows:

1.History record

2.Activity

3.Facility length

4.System rate (that is, whether the facility supports T1 or fiber)

5.Protection switching

6.Physical type (that is, whether the facility is physically installed as an underground, buried, or aerial paired cable, a coaxial cable, or a radio link). (Satellite facilities should not be used to supply synchronization.)

7.Number and type of regenerative repeaters

8.Number of digital terminal products and other intermediate office equipment, if any

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