A digital carrier system is a communications system that uses digital pulses rather than analogue signals to encode information. Fig shows the block diagram for a digital carrier system. This digital carrier system T1 uses PCM-encoded samples from 24 voice band channels for transmission over a single metallic wire pair or optical fibre transmission line. Each voice-band channel has a band width of approximately 300 Hz to 3000 Hz. Again, the multiplexer is simply a digital switch with 24 independent inputs and one time division multiplexed output. The PCM output signals from the 24 voice-band channels are sequentially selected and connected through the multiplexer to the transmission line. When a T1 carrier system, D-type (digital) channel banks perform the sampling, encoding and multiplexing of 24 voice-band channels, each channel contains an eight-bit PCM code and is sampled 8000 times a second. Each channel is sampled at the same rate. Fig. shows the channel sampling sequence for a 24-channel T1 digital carrier system. As the Fig. shows each channel is sampled once each frame but not at the same time. Each channel’s sample is offset from the previous channel’s sample by 1/24 of the total frame time. Therefore, one 64-kbps PCM-encoded sample is transmitted for each voice-band channel during each frame (a frame time of 1/8000 = 125 µs). Later, an additional bit (called the framing bit) is added to each frame. The framing bit occurs once per frame (8000-bps rate) and is recovered in the receiver, where it is used to maintain frame and sample synchronization between the TDM transmitter and receiver.