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UMOD hardware theory of operation 3–53
supervisory information added at the transmit end of the link is
removed, and the original data recovered. This data can either be
passed directly into the internal Doppler/plesiochronous buffer, or
to the GIM or DIM. If the buffer is activated, it will re–time the
receive data synchronized to the local network clock, and provide
the output to the terrestrial network through the DIM or GIM.
The IFU provides X.50 bit-stuffing for 48 and 56 kbps data rates.
After adding satellite overhead, this results in a satellite rate of
68.26667 kbps (64 k X 16/15).
Supervisory overhead
At most multiples of 64 kbps the overhead is 6.7%, but this varies
between 0% (G732-formatted 2048 kbps), 6% for 1544 kbps, 21%
for 56 kbps, and 42% for 48 kbps.
The overhead added to each carrier provides several functions:
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Synchronization of the scrambler and descrambler.
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Synchronization of link encryption equipment
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A low-rate data channel, the rate of which is dependent
upon the carrier rate being used
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A backward alarm facility
The framing unit provides framing and buffering for data rates of
1.544 Mbps (T1), 2.048 Mbps (E1), 6.312 Mbps (T2), and
8.448 Mbps (E2), or buffering only for IDR data rates of 64, 192,
and 384 kbps. During a transmit operation, the framing unit adds a
96-kbps ESC overhead to the regular transmit data. The overhead
is used for one 8-kbps data channel, four backward alarm
channels, and two 32-kbps ESC voice channels. In the receive
path, the overhead data is removed and routed to the appropriate
data, alarm, and ESC voice or ESC revenue channels. The original
data is passed into the internal Doppler/plesiochronous buffer, and
from there, after being synchronized to the local network clock, to
the DIM or GIM.
In IBS/SMS modes, the IFU provides an IESS 309 (IBS) 2
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synchronous scrambler. For IDR modes, the V.35 scrambler is
located on the UMOD motherboard. When optional
Reed-Solomon codec is activated, only the synchronous scrambler
must be used with either IBS or IDR service.
Both IBS/SMS modes and IDR modes have backward alarm
facilities, although the principle is the same, the practical
implementation differs somewhat.
IFU framing modes and
rates supported
Scramblers
Backward alarms