MuxRates

Result: standard mapping

How many STM-4s are in an OTU2?

An OTU2 carries 16 STM-4s, per ITU-T G.709 and ITU-T G.707. This path maps STM-64 into ODU2 as a client, then follows that client's tributaries.

16

STM-4s in an OTU2

Working

OTU2 → 1 × ODU2 → 1 × STM-64 → 16 × STM-4

  1. 1 × ODU2 in each OTU2 ITU-T G.709The OTU2 frame carries exactly one ODU2.
  2. 1 × STM-64 in each ODU2 ITU-T G.709Client mappingCBR STM-64 mapped into OPU2.
  3. 16 × STM-4 in each STM-64 ITU-T G.70716 × STM-4.

Leftover capacity

755.945316 Mbit/s of each OTU2 line rate (10.709225316 Gbit/s) sits outside 16 × 622.080 Mbit/s of STM-4 line rate (9.953280 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 17.21, which floors to 17 STM-4s by bit rate only. The standard mapping is 16. Use the mapping.

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