Remote Connectivity Flashcards
SONET
Synchronous Optical Network
- WAN interconnections
- vast majority of long-distance connections that make up the internet
- most of the big long-distance optical pipes for the world are SONET rings
- defines interface standards at the Physical and Data Link Layers
multiplexer
- takes a circuit and combines it with a number of other circuits into one complex circuit
- requires demultiplexer on the other end
modulation techiques
converting a digital signal to analog, or pushing an analog signal to a higher frequency
FDM
Frequency Division Multiplexing
- keeping each individiual signal in its own unique frequency range
Can digital or analog travel farther?
Digital, because you can use repeaters
T-carriers
digital trunk carriers used by the telephone industry
T1
T-carrier Level 1
- T1 connection - the technology
- T1 line - the specific wire
- ends with RJ-48C
- uses signaling method DS1 (digital signal 1)
- no addressing necessary
- 24 channels 1.544 Mbps
CSU/DSU
Channel Service Unit / Digital Service Unit
- at end of T1 line
- point-to-point, can only have 1 at each end
- has atleast 2 connections, one to demarc, other to router
- CSU - protects from lightning strikes, stores statistics, and has loopback function for testing
- DSU - supplies timing to each user port, converts signals, encapsualtes frames
Connect 2 CSU/DSU boxes together
T1 Crossover Cable
TDM
Time Domain Multiplexing
- process of having frames that carry a portion of every channel in every frame sent on a regular interval
DS0
each 64-kbps channel in a DS1 signal
Fractional T1 Access
purchasing individual T1 channels
T3
- 672 channels, 44.736 Mbps
- sometimes called DS3
- mainly used by regional phone companies and ISPs
E1
E-carrier Level 1
- European format for digial transmissions
- 32 channels, 2.048 Mbps
E3
- 512 channels , 34.368 Mbps
HDLC
High level Data Link Control
- E1 and Sonnet use a derivative protocol as the control channel
OC standards
Optical Carrier Standards
- denote the optical data-carrying capacity in bps of fiber-optic cables in SONET networks
- speeds from 51.8 Mbps (OC-1)
- to 39.8 Gpbs (OC-678)
- can use WDM ro DWDM
WDM
Wavelength Division Multiplexing
DWDM
Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- can create about 150 different signals
CWDM
Coarse Wavelength Division Multiplexing
- lower cost
STS Signal Method
Synchronous Transport Signal
- used by Sonet
- STS payload - data
- STS Overhead - signal and protocol information
- STS number will match OC number… ex OC-24 is STS-24
First packet-switching technology
X.25 or CCITT packet switching protocol
- enabled remote devices to communicate with each other across high-speed digital links without the expense of individual leased lines
packet switches
any machines that forwads and stoers packets using any type of packet-switching protocol
Frame Relay
- efficient packet-switching standard
- designed for use primarily with T-Carrier lines
- works espeically well for off-again/on-again traffic typical of most LAN applications
- works at layers 1 & 2 using frames rather than packets
- switches frames quickly, but without any guarantee of data integrity
- will discard frames if there is network congestion
- replaced by MPLS
ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- network technology designed for high-speed LANs
- integrated voice, video and data on one connection using short and fixed-length frames called cells (53 bytes)
- speeds from 155.52 to 622.08 Mbps
MPLS
Multiprotocol Label Switching
- replacement for Frame Relay and ATM
- adds an MPLS label that sits between the layer 2 header and the layer 3 information
- avoids running IP packets through their full routing tables and instead use the header information to route packets quickly
- MPLS routers use existing dynamic routing protocols to send each other messages about their overhead, enabling QoS to span an entire group of routers
MPLS header
label - unique identifier
exp - experimental bits - relative value used to determine the importance of the labeled packet for prioritization
S - Bottom of Label Stack - a single packet may have multiple MPLS labels, this single bit value is set to 1 for the first initial label
TTL - Time to Live - value that determines the number of hops the label can make before it’s eliminated
FEC
Forwarding Equivalence Class - a set of packets that can be sent to the same place, sunch as a single broadcast domain of computers connected to a router