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Re: Optical vs. Electrical Interfaces

  • From: James Carlson <carlson@ironbridgenetworks.com>
  • Date: 23 Jul 1998 15:54:30 -0400

"Kevin Fleming" <no@spamming.now> writes:
> Tim <2207leung@hknet.com> wrote in message <35B745CD.10E8@hknet.com>...
> >Kevin Fleming wrote:
> >>
> 
> >> The E3 is carried over fibre, to be sure, to you local exchange - but it
> >> sounds like it is then carried over SDH to the ATM switch.
> >
> >The E3 is the PDH interface standard. Its spec should be referred to
> >G703. It is intended to be carried over copper wire or coaxial cable.
> >>
> 
> This electrical interface will only drive coax a couple hundred metres
> without repearter/regenerators, so what I had intended to mean by "carried
> over fibre" was in fact a line system to the local exchange ;-)

Noting, of course, that the original poster was from the University of
Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania, so the one thing he probably does *not*
have is an E3 signal in any format ...

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