CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     References
 3     Terms and definitions
 4     Acronyms and abbreviations
 5     Conventions
 6     Network adapter overview
        6.1     Functional description
 7     Detailed description of the basic functions
        7.1     MPEG Physical Interface (MPI)
                  7.1.1     Basic characteristics
                  7.1.2     Additional characteristics for System A (European system)
        7.2     MPEG/ATM Adaptation (MAA)
                  7.2.1     Signal processing in the transmitter (Signal flow from b to c in Figure 1)
                  7.2.2     Signal processing in the receiver (Signal flow from c to b in Figure 1)
        7.3     Virtual Path Entity (VPE)
                  7.3.1     Signal processing in the transmitter (Signal flow from c to d in Figure 1)
                  7.3.2     Signal processing in the receiver (Signal flow from d to c in Figure 1)
        7.4     Virtual Path Multiplexing Entity (VPME)
                  7.4.1     Signal processing in the transmitter (Signal flow from d to e in Figure 1)
                  7.4.2     Signal processing in the receiver (Signal flow from e to d in Figure 1)
        7.5     PDH Path Layer Trail Termination (Pqs_TT)
        7.6     PDH Physical Section Layer to PDH Path Layer Adaptation (Eq/Pqs_A)
        7.7     PDH Physical Section Layer Trail Termination (Eq_TT)
        7.8     Equipment Management Function (EMF)
                  7.8.1     Overview of the EMF
                  7.8.2     Configuration
                  7.8.3     Fault (maintenance) management
                  7.8.4     Performance management
Appendix  I  –  Mechanisms of the adaptive clock method
Appendix  II  –  Enabling/disabling the Header Error Control functions
Appendix  III  –  Transmission capacity of the Network Adapter