SONET FRAMES:


The basic SONET Frame structure is known as STS-1 or Sychronous Transport Signal level 1.  It has a  basic frame rate of 8,000 frames/sec = 51.84Mb/s.  The frame length is 9-rows by 90-columns of octets - total frame size 810 octets.  The first three columns are transport overhead, while columns 4-90 are the SPE - Synchronous Payload Envelope with actual transport speed of 50.112Mb/s. 


Sonet Frame Diagram



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