STANDARD PRODUCT
PM4328 TECT3
DATASHEET
PMC-2011596
ISSUE 1
HIGH DENSITY T1/E1 FRAMER
AND M13 MULTIPLEXER
Figure 29: CRCE Count vs. BER (E1 mode)
1.00E-02
1.00E-03
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Figure 30 illustrates the expected count values for a range of Bit Error Ratios in
T1 mode.
Figure 30: FER Count vs. BER (T1 ESF mode)
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Framing Bit Error Count Per Second
Since the maximum number of ESF superframes that can occur in one second is
333, the 9-bit BEE counter cannot saturate in one second in ESF framing format.
Despite this, there is not a linear relationship between BER and BEE count, due
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to the nature of the CRC-6 calculation. At BERs below 10 , there tends to be no
more than one bit error per superframe, so the number of CRC-6 errors is
generally equal to the number of bit errors, which is directly related to the BER.
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However, at BERs above 10 , each CRC-6 error is often due to more than one
bit error. Thus, the relationship between BER and BEE count becomes non-
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linear above a 10 BER. This must be taken into account when using ESF
CRC-6 counts to determine the BER.
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