> Standard contiguous concatenated STS-Nc SPE is actually STS-3c-Xc SPE
> with N=3X and X=4,16,64,... which explains the coding with a STS-3c SPE
> elementary signal and NCC=X. So we code the STS-Nc SPE and VC-4-Xc
> identical (examples 3 and 9) but not their base signal ?!?...
i refer you to section 7.3.1 of ANSI T1.105 - 2001 (aka SONET base spec)
you will that your interpretation is not the one specified in this
recommendation
" Super rates services are mapped into and transported as STS-Nc SPE
[N=3X there X = 1, 4, 16, 64 or 256]"