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Glossary
GL-22
Issue 1
December 1997
V
VF
Voice Frequency
VLSI
Very Large Scale Integration — Refers to very complex state of the art integrated circuits.
VM
Violation Monitor — A mode of the DS3 circuit pack in which it will monitor but not remove
P-bit parity violations on the DS3 signal received from the fiber.
VMR
Violation, Monitor, and Removal — A mode of the DS3 circuit pack in which it will monitor
and remove P-bit parity violations on the DS3 signal received from the fiber.
VONU
Virtual Optical Network Unit
VT
Virtual Tributary — A structure designed for transport and switching of a sub-DS3
payload.
VT1.5
A 1.728 Mb/s virtual tributary
VT-G
Virtual Tributary Group — A 9-row by 12-column SONET structure (108 bytes) that
carries one or more VTs of the same size. Seven VT groups (756 bytes) are
byte-interleaved within the VT-organized STS-1 synchronous payload envelope.
W
WAN
Wide Area Network
Z
Zero Code Suppression
A technique used to reduce the number of consecutive zeros in a line-codes signal (B3ZS
for DS3 signals and B8ZS for DS1 signals).