K1 & K2 bit description

Condition
Selects the channel used by APS messages
or Destination node ID

Selects APS 111 => MS-AIS

Selects bridged channel used or 110 => MS-RDI
architecture or Path
Source node ID
code

S1 bit description

Future Use 0000 Quality unknown

0010 PRC (G.811)
0100 SSU-A (G.812 transit)
1000 SSU-B (G.812 local)
1011 SEC (G.813)
1111 DNU
Higher Order Path Overhead – HPOH(VC-4 / VC-3)

Path Trace (J1) - J1 byte carries the trace information at path level
Path BIP-8 (B3) - Path error monitoring
Path Signal Label (C2) - Indicates the type of payload in AU
Path Status (G1) - Provides status and performance information
back to the remote end
Path User data Channel (F2,F3) - User data channel at path level
Indicator byte (H4) - Carries multiframe information
APS (K3) -Bits 1-4 are allocated for APS. Bits 5-8 are for future
Use .
Tandem Connection (N1) -IEC for tandem connection monitoring
At TCM source.

G1 bit description
Lower Order Path Overhead – POH(VC-11 / VC-12)

VC-12 VC-11

V5

J2

N2

K4

V5 - Signal Label and parity check

J2- Path Trace - J2 byte carries the trace information at lower order path level
N2 -Tandem Connection- IEC for tandem connection monitoring at TCM source
K4 - Carries APS information at lower order path level
V5 bit description

Pointers

• SDH provides payload pointers to permit differences in the phase and frequency
of the Virtual Containers (VC-N) with respect to the STM-N frame.

• On a frame-by-frame basis, the payload pointer indicates the offset between the
VC payload and the STM-N frame.

• The pointer value indicates the offset in bytes from the pointer to the first byte of
the VC, which is the J1 byte.

• Starting points are at 3-byte increments for a VC-4 payload & 1-byte increment
for VC-3 payload.

• The possible range is:

Total STM-1 bytes – Section Overhead bytes = Pointer value range
(2430 – 81) = 2349 pointer range

• For a VC-4 payload, this pointer is located in columns 1 and 4 of the fourth row
of the Section Overhead

• For a VC-3 payload, entire pointer bytes are used.

 Pointers Continued………

• The pointer value, is carried in bits 7 through 16 of the H1-H2 pointer word.
• The first four bits indicates an arbitrary change in the value of the pointer. These four bits, the N-
bits, are known as the New Data Flag.

H1+H2

1 2 3 4 S1 S2 I D I D I D I D I D

Pointer Values (0 – 782)

New Data Flag Size Bits

0110  No Arbitrary change

1001  Arbitrary change (Contiguous concatenation)