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The B3 byte is used to monitor the bit error performance of VC-4 transmission in STM-N frames. The monitoring mechanism of B3 is similar to those of B1 and B2. However, B3 performs the BIP-8 check on VC-4 frames.
If a bit error block is detected at the receive end, the local performance monitoring event HP-BBE (higher-order path background block error) displays the number of bit error blocks. At the same time, the performance monitoring event HP-REI (higher-order path remote error indication) of the VC-4 path at the transmit end displays the number of bit error blocks received at the receive end.
When the number of bit errors at the receive end exceeds a certain limit, the device reports an alarm indicating that bit errors exceed the threshold (B3-OVER).