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Basic Telecommunications: - Vocabulary, Concepts, More "Bullet
Basic Telecommunications: - Vocabulary, Concepts, More "Bullet
Vocabulary, concepts, more bullet proofing Touch on just a few basic points
essentials of technology and where its going essentials of regulation and where its going
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Transmission facilities
Twisted pair Coaxial cable Microwave Satellite Fiber optics Wireless
Signaling
Analog--continuous Digital--discrete
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Analog signaling
AM, FM, etc. Limitations Error correction Encryption
Digital signaling
Computer friendly Facilitates Error correction Encryption Fits with fiber optic transmission facilities The way the world is going
Modems
Modulator--demodulator A to D and D to A Because the voice network is analog At the handset Telecom.ppt 3
Switching
The cloud The cloud is expensive Switching makes better use of the cloud
Kinds of switching
Circuit switching Message switching Packet switching And the Internet And ATM Broadcasting Cellular
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Voice networks
RBOCs Other local telcos Long distance carriers Cable companies? LAN WAN etc. Often (usually) use voice network transmission facilities
Data networks
Cable TV networks
Microsoft and $1 billion/yr R&D on the set top box
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Data communications?
Basically, anything goes But whose transmission facilities are used? Largely: from the voice networks
Voice networks
Interconnected world-wide Standards Legal requirements
The Internet The worlds first network for making data calls
NB telex
Design policies
Simple protocols (e.g., TCP/IP) Public and open
Cost of use?
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Why is the computer industry mucking in the last mile problem? Prognostications?
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Importance of standardization
de jure de facto Internet?
Managerial/decision issues?
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Telephone
A world-wide telecommunications system Up and running for > 50 years
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CMC: 2
Data communications is inherently easier (in many ways) than voice communication.
So why cant you make those data calls?
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CMC: 3
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