MuxRates

Result: standard mapping

How many OC-1s are in an OTU1?

An OTU1 carries 48 OC-1s, per ITU-T G.709 and Telcordia GR-253. This path maps OC-48 into ODU1 as a client, then follows that client's tributaries.

48

OC-1s in an OTU1

Working

OTU1 → 1 × ODU1 → 1 × OC-48 → 48 × OC-1 (STS-1)

  1. 1 × ODU1 in each OTU1 ITU-T G.709The OTU1 frame carries exactly one ODU1. The line-rate gap is OTU overhead and FEC.
  2. 1 × OC-48 in each ODU1 ITU-T G.709Client mappingCBR OC-48, the same client rate as STM-16, mapped into OPU1.
  3. 48 × OC-1 (STS-1) in each OC-48 Telcordia GR-25348 × OC-1 (STS-1). Channelized OC-48 is 48 STS-1s.

Leftover capacity

177.737143 Mbit/s of each OTU1 line rate (2.666057143 Gbit/s) sits outside 48 × 51.840 Mbit/s of OC-1 line rate (2.488320 Gbit/s). That remainder is overhead, fixed stuff or justification. It is not another whole tributary.

By bit rate only

Dividing the line rates gives 51.42, which floors to 51 OC-1s by bit rate only. The standard mapping is 48. Use the mapping.

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