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Synchronous optical network standard is an ultra-high-speed, fiber-optic transmission standard developed by Bellcore for large-scale, fiber-based digital transmission networks that use equipment form many different manufacturers. It is the first telecom industry agreement on standardized interfaces between fiber optic transmission systems and is well on the way to becoming an international standard. Because all SONET-compatible devices speak a common language, network administrators will gain network-wide use of advanced operation and maintenance systems, regardless of who made individual network components. The SONET standard is built around a 51.84 Mbps basic communications channel that is multiplexed upward. SONET line-rate standards now include network bandwidths up to 2.488 Gbps, a rate equivalent to 48 basic SONET communications channels. 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