Transmission of STS-3c (155 Mbit/sec) SONET/ATM signals over unshielded and shielded twisted pair copper wire

Author

Stephens, W.E. ; Banwell, T.C. ; Lalk, G.R. ; Robe, T.J. ; Young, K.C.

Author_Institution

Bellcore, Morristown, NJ, USA

fYear

1992

Firstpage

170

Abstract

The feasibility of transmitting 1 55-Mb/s SONET/ATM signals over 131 m of unshielded 24 AWG single twisted pair copper cable and 213 m of shielded 22 AWG twisted pair cable with bit error ratios of less than 10 ^-13 is shown. The transmission performance of the single-pair unshielded cable is compared to that of category 3 and 5 four-pair unshielded twisted pair cables and category 1 two-pair shielded twisted pair cables. The merits of two-level encoding and three-level encoding are examined. The three-level encoding has a noise margin that is 6 dB greater than the two-level encoding. The results indicate that it may be feasible to employ copper drops for distribution of SONET/ATM asynchronous optical network/asynchronous transfer mode) signals to businesses and residences and for a local area network within an office complex

Keywords

SONET; asynchronous transfer mode; encoding; subscriber loops; telecommunication cables; 131 m; 155 Mbit/s; 213 m; SONET/ATM signals; asynchronous optical network/asynchronous transfer mode; bit error ratios; copper drops; shielded 22 AWG twisted pair cable; subscriber loops; three-level encoding; transmission performance; two-level encoding; unshielded 24 AWG single twisted pair copper cable; Asynchronous transfer mode; Cable shielding; Copper; Crosstalk; Encoding; Optical fiber LAN; Optical fiber cables; Power cables; SONET; Subscriber loops;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Global Telecommunications Conference, 1992. Conference Record., GLOBECOM '92. Communication for Global Users., IEEE

Conference_Location

Orlando, FL

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0608-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/GLOCOM.1992.276498

Filename

276498