Performance monitoring and test system for a telephone network
First Claim
1. In a telephone network, a DS3 signal access system comprising:
- means for identifying a bit in the DS3 signal;
means for generating a selected bit; and
a combiner for substituting the identified bit with the selected bit in the DS3 signal.
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Abstract
A DS3 level access, monitor and test system for a telephone network. The system provides selective, and hitless, bit overwrite in any of the embedded DS1, DS0 and subrate channels in a DS3 signal. Multiple DS0 and subrate channels can be tested via the asynchronous time slot interchange in conjunction with the recombiner of the present invention. The present invention further includes a lookahead reframer for framing to the DS3 signal. The present invention also includes a facilities data link (FDL) handler for capturing the FDL channel data in every DS1 channel in a DS3 signal. A high speed bit-for-bit compare is interfaced to a protect path to provide 1:1 fault protection in the system of the present invention. Full time performance monitoring on DS1 and DS3 signals is performed by a shared resource. The system of the present invention provides an integrated approach to synchronization measurement and relative synchronization.
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1. In a telephone network, a DS3 signal access system comprising:
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means for identifying a bit in the DS3 signal; means for generating a selected bit; and a combiner for substituting the identified bit with the selected bit in the DS3 signal. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. A system for accessing a plurality of embedded channels in a DS3 signal, the system comprising:
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a demultiplexer for extracting at least one of the DS2 channels in the DS3 signal; an asynchronous time slot interchange for communicating at least one of the DS0 channels in the DS2 channel into an asynchronous time slot on a bus; and means for selectively inserting data from the bus into the DS3 signal. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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