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Result: standard mapping

How many OC-12s are in an OTU3?

An OTU3 carries 64 OC-12s, per ITU-T G.709 and Telcordia GR-253. This path maps OC-768 into ODU3 as a client, then follows that client's tributaries.

64

OC-12s in an OTU3

Working

OTU3 → 1 × ODU3 → 1 × OC-768 → 64 × OC-12

  1. 1 × ODU3 in each OTU3 ITU-T G.709The OTU3 frame carries exactly one ODU3.
  2. 1 × OC-768 in each ODU3 ITU-T G.709Client mappingCBR OC-768, the same client rate as STM-256, mapped into OPU3.
  3. 64 × OC-12 in each OC-768 Telcordia GR-25364 × OC-12. Channelized OC-768 is 768 STS-1s.

Leftover capacity

3.205293559 Gbit/s of each OTU3 line rate (43.018413559 Gbit/s) sits outside 64 × 622.080 Mbit/s of OC-12 line rate (39.813120 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 69.15, which floors to 69 OC-12s by bit rate only. The standard mapping is 64. Use the mapping.

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