
Data Sheet
January 1999
T7698 Quad T1/E1 Line Interface and Octal T1/E1 Monitor
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Lucent Technologies Inc.
Frame Monitors
(continued)
Alarms and Performance Monitoring
The T7698 receive frame monitor monitors the receive line data for alarm conditions and error events and presents
this information to the system through the microprocessor interface status registers. The updating of the status reg-
isters is controlled by the receive line clock signal. When the line clock is lost, then the updating of all status infor-
mation is corrupted.
The alarm conditions monitored on the received line interface are:
1.
Red alarm
or the
loss of frame alignment
indication. The red alarm indicates that the receive frame
alignment for the line has been lost and the data cannot be properly extracted. The loss of frame condition for
the various framing formats is defined in Table 37.
2.
Severely errored frame (SEF) alarm (DS1 only).
This alarm is determined by examining contiguous time
windows for framing bit errors. For D4, DDS, and SLC-96 framing modes, the window size is 0.75 ms and only
the F
T
bits are examined. For ESF, the window size is 3 ms, and only the F
E
bits are examined. An SEF defect
occurs when two or more framing bit errors in a window are detected. An SEF defect is terminated when the
signal is in-frame and there are less than two framing bit errors in a window.
Yellow alarm
or the
remote frame alarm
. This alarm is an indication that the remote end is in a loss of frame
alignment state. The T7698 detects an incoming remote frame alarm (commonly referred to as a yellow alarm)
for the different framing formats as shown in Table 38.
3.
Table 37. Red Alarm Conditions
Framing Format
D4
SLC-96
DDS
ESF
Red Alarm (Loss of Frame Alignment) Condition
Two incorrect received F
T
framing bits out of four.
Two incorrect received F
T
framing bits out of four.
Three incorrect received framing bits (F
T
, F
S
, or FAS pattern) out of twelve.
Two incorrect received F
E
framing bits out of four, or optionally (if register
Framer_PR14, bit 0 = 0):
Option a (Framer_PR14, bit 1 = 0): 32 CRC-6 errors out of 33 CRC
checks.
Option b (Framer_PR14, bit 1 = 1): >320 CRC-6 errors in one second.
Three consecutive incorrect FAS patterns or three consecutive incorrect NOT
FAS patterns, or optionally (if register Framer_PR14, bit 0 = 0)
≥
915 received
CRC-4 submultiframe errors out of 1000 CRC submultiframe checks.
CEPT
Table 38. Remote Frame Alarm Conditions
Framing Format
D4
D4-Japanese
Remote Frame Alarm Format
Bit 2 of all time slots in the 0 state.
The twelfth (12th) framing bit in the 1 state in two out of three consecutive
superframes.
Bit 6 of time slot 24 in the 0 state in all the word-24 occurrences in a
superframe.
An alternating pattern of eight ones followed by eight zeros in the ESF data
link.
Bit 3 of the NOT FAS frame (A bit) signals the remote frame alarm.
DDS
ESF
CEPT
For register Framer_PR2, bit 0 = 0, one A bit = 1 event required.
For register Framer_PR2, bit 0 = 1, three consecutive A bit = 1 events
required.