T-carrier system
<communications> A series of wideband digital data transmission formats
originally developed by the Bell System and used in North America and Japan.
The basic unit of the T-carrier system is the DS0, which has a transmission rate
of 64 Kbps, and is commonly used for one voice circuit.
Originally the 1.544 megabit per second T1 format carried 24 pulse-code
modulated, time-division multiplexed speech signals each encoded in 64 kilobit
per second streams, leaving 8 kilobits per second of framing information which
facilitates the synchronisation and demultiplexing at the receiver. T2 and T3
circuits channels carry multiple T1 channels multiplexed, resulting in
transmission rates of up to 44.736 Mbps.
The T-carrier system uses in-band signaling or bit-robbing, resulting in lower
transmission rates than the E-carrier system. It uses a restored polar signal
with 303-type data stations.
Asynchronous signals can be transmitted via a standard which encodes each change
of level into three bits; two which indicate the time (within the current
synchronous frame) at which the transition occurred, and the third which
indicates the direction of the transition. Although wasteful of line bandwidth,
such use is usually only over small distances.
T1 lines are made free of direct current signal components by in effect
capacitor coupling the signal at the transmitter and restoring that lost
component with a "slicer" at the receiver, leading to the description "restored
polar".
[Telecommunications Transmission Engineering, Vol. 2, Facilities, AT&T, 1977].
(2001-04-08)
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