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Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy - Telecommunication

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy is a Protocol for digital transmission of electronic signals. This a hierarchy, which existed before modern telecommunication techniques of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

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Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy - Telecommunication

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy is a Protocol for digital transmission of electronic signals. This a hierarchy, which existed before modern telecommunication techniques of Synchronous Digital Hierarchy

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INTRODUCTION TO PDH

Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy


2 Mbps 2 Mbps

8 Mbps

8 Mbps

34 Mbps

34 Mbps

140 Mbps

Multiplexing hierarchy
The PDH high capacity transmission networks are based on a hierarchy of digital multiplexed signals: E.1 to E.4. The basic building block is the primary rate of 2.048 Mb/s (E.1). This could be made up of 30 x 64 Kb/s voice channels. This would then be multiplexed up to a higher rate for high capacity transmisson.

Four signals at the primary rate can be multiplexed up to the secondary rate, E.2, of 8.448 Mb/s and so on up to a rate of 139 Mb/s (E.4). Thus the 139 Mb/s rate represents 64 x 2.048 Mb/s signals and 1920 multiplexed voice channels.

Developing networks
The plesynchronous multiplexing technology, often called PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy), left no room in the signal structures for network management and maintenance functions. We are therefore left with no spare signal capacity to provide improvements in the signal transmission.

As networks developed inter-connection became increasingly complex. It required banks of multiplexers and large, unreliable distribution frames. It became clear that the original standards, designed for point-to-point links, were just not suitable.

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