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K1 & K2 Bit Description

K1 & K2 bits in the APS byte describe the channel and node IDs used for Automatic Protection Switching messages. S1 bits describe the quality or type of path. Higher Order Path Overhead bytes carry trace, error monitoring, payload type, status, and APS information at the path level. G1 bits provide path status and performance information. Lower Order Path Overhead bytes carry similar trace, tandem connection, and APS information but at the VC-11/12 level. V5 bits describe the signal label and parity. Pointers indicate the offset between the VC payload and STM frame on a byte level, with the range depending on the VC size. The pointer value and arbitrary change flags are located in

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K1 & K2 Bit Description

K1 & K2 bits in the APS byte describe the channel and node IDs used for Automatic Protection Switching messages. S1 bits describe the quality or type of path. Higher Order Path Overhead bytes carry trace, error monitoring, payload type, status, and APS information at the path level. G1 bits provide path status and performance information. Lower Order Path Overhead bytes carry similar trace, tandem connection, and APS information but at the VC-11/12 level. V5 bits describe the signal label and parity. Pointers indicate the offset between the VC payload and STM frame on a byte level, with the range depending on the VC size. The pointer value and arbitrary change flags are located in

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K1 & K2 bit description

Condition
Selects the channel used by APS messages
or Destination node ID

Selects APS 111 => MS-AIS


Selects bridged channel used or 110 => MS-RDI
architecture or Path
Source node ID
code

S1 bit description

Future Use 0000 Quality unknown


0010 PRC (G.811)
0100 SSU-A (G.812 transit)
1000 SSU-B (G.812 local)
1011 SEC (G.813)
1111 DNU
Higher Order Path Overhead – HPOH(VC-4 / VC-3)

Path Trace (J1) - J1 byte carries the trace information at path level
Path BIP-8 (B3) - Path error monitoring
Path Signal Label (C2) - Indicates the type of payload in AU
Path Status (G1) - Provides status and performance information
back to the remote end
Path User data Channel (F2,F3) - User data channel at path level
Indicator byte (H4) - Carries multiframe information
APS (K3) -Bits 1-4 are allocated for APS. Bits 5-8 are for future
Use .
Tandem Connection (N1) -IEC for tandem connection monitoring
At TCM source.

G1 bit description
Lower Order Path Overhead – POH(VC-11 / VC-12)

VC-12 VC-11

V5

J2

N2

K4

V5 - Signal Label and parity check


J2- Path Trace - J2 byte carries the trace information at lower order path level
N2 -Tandem Connection- IEC for tandem connection monitoring at TCM source
K4 - Carries APS information at lower order path level
V5 bit description

Pointers

• SDH provides payload pointers to permit differences in the phase and frequency
of the Virtual Containers (VC-N) with respect to the STM-N frame.

• On a frame-by-frame basis, the payload pointer indicates the offset between the
VC payload and the STM-N frame.

• The pointer value indicates the offset in bytes from the pointer to the first byte of
the VC, which is the J1 byte.

• Starting points are at 3-byte increments for a VC-4 payload & 1-byte increment
for VC-3 payload.

• The possible range is:


Total STM-1 bytes – Section Overhead bytes = Pointer value range
(2430 – 81) = 2349 pointer range

• For a VC-4 payload, this pointer is located in columns 1 and 4 of the fourth row
of the Section Overhead

• For a VC-3 payload, entire pointer bytes are used.


Pointers Continued………

• The pointer value, is carried in bits 7 through 16 of the H1-H2 pointer word.
• The first four bits indicates an arbitrary change in the value of the pointer. These four bits, the N-
bits, are known as the New Data Flag.

H1+H2

1 2 3 4 S1 S2 I D I D I D I D I D

Pointer Values (0 – 782)


New Data Flag Size Bits

0110  No Arbitrary change


1001  Arbitrary change (Contiguous concatenation)

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