Sunday, September 6, 2009

AU-4 Pointer

The SDH pointer mechanism is a very elegant way of multiplexing multiple data
containers without the need to align the containers to a common frame start. Thus the framebuffers in SDH multiplexing equipment can be kept small and the transmission delay due to buffering is minimized.

The VC-4 container is allowed to float freely within the AU-4. The H1 and H2 pointer
bytes form a word with a range of 0 to 782 which indicates the offset, in three byte
increments, between the pointer and the first byte of the VC-4.

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