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STM-1 / USB interface?

Added by laforge over 4 years ago. Updated about 2 years ago.

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Start date:
10/14/2019
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This is a completeley crazy idea, but I couldn't resist doing some investigation and want to record my notes for future reference:

The XRT91L31 looks like an interesting chip; it does the STM-1 byte and frame alignment, as well as serial/parallel conversion. Essentially, it provides a 19.44MHz clocked 8-bit parallel input and output streaming the individual bytes. Each byte corresponds to one of the 64k sub-slots in the hierarchy. On the line-interface side it seems one can directly attach a SFP module to it.

The Cypress FX2 looks like it can be used to construct a compatible interface. Its GPIF
  • can be clocked from the external 19.44 MHz clock recovered by the receiver
  • can interface the 8-bit parallel data and feed it from/to USB endpoints.

What would be the point? One could use (inexpensive, 2nd hand) E1/E3/STM-1 add/drop multiplexers to aggregate many physical E1 interfaces and bring them into a Linux system for software switching (e.g. via a PBX like LCR or FreeSwitch).

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Updated by laforge about 2 years ago

  • Project changed from BBS-Revival to Retronetworking
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