BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

CHAPTER 16 TELEPHONE INSTRUMENTS AND SIGNALS

# DEFINITIONS TERMS

Process of conveying information from one place

1) Communications
to another.

2) Is a long-distance communications Telecommunications

3) One of the most remarkable devices ever invented. Telephone

Anyone who uses a telephone or a data modem on a telephone

4) Public Telephone Network
circuit is part of a global communications network .

The PTN is comprised of several very large corporations and

5) Telco
hundreds of smaller independent companies jointly.

The telephone system as we know it today began as an unlikely Alexander Graham Bell and
6)
collaboration of two men with widely disparate personalities: Thomas A. Watson

The simplest and most straightforward form of telephone Plain Old Telephone Service
7)
service.

8) Most fundamental component of a telephone circuit. Subscriber Loop or Local Loop

An unshielded trwisted-pair transmission line consisting of two

9) Local Loop
insulated conductors twisted together

Comes from the Greek word "tele" meaning from afar and
10) Telephone
phone, meaning sound, voice, or voiced sound.

The first telephone set that combined a transmitter and receiver

11) Butterstamp Telephone
into a single handheld unit was introduced in 1878

12) Helps prevent the speaker from talking too loudly Sidetone or Talkback

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13) Local Loop

The pair of wores connecting.

A series of telephone connection interfaces that are registered

14) RJ or Registered Jacks
with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.

The most common telephone jack in use today and can have up
15) RJ-11
to six conductors.

An apparatus that creates an exact likeness of sound waves with

16) Telephone Set
an electric current.

Is originally an electromagnetic bell, placed directly across the

17) Ringer Circuit
tip of the ring of the local loop.

Alert the destination party of

18) Purpose of a Ringer. incoming calls

19) Sometimes called a Switch Hook. On/Off Hook Circuit

Helps solve an important transmission problem in telephone set

20) Equalizers
design.

21) Is the transmitter of the telephone. Microphone

Converts acoustical signals in the form of sound pressure waves

22) from the caller to electrical signals that are transmitted into the Microphone
telephone network.

23) Enables the subscriber to output signals representing digits. Dialing Circuit

Signaling messages can be subdivided further into one or four

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categories: Alerting, Supervising,
)
Controlling, and Addressing

25) Indicate a request for service. Alerting Signals

26) Supervising Signals

Provide call status information.
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27) Provide information in the form of announcements. Controlling Signals

28) Provide the routing information. Addressing Signals

Is strictly for signaling between a subscriber's location and the

29) DTMF
nearest telephone office or message switching center.

Are used to transfer digits and control signals between switching

30) Multifrequency Tones
machines.

Are combinations of two frequencies that fall within the normal

31) speech bandwidth so they can be propagated over the same MF Tones
circuits as voice.

Congestion Tone or No-

32) Equipment Busy Signal is sometimes.
Circuit-Available

Occurs whenever the system is overloaded and more calls are

33) Blocking
being placed than can be completed.

Is sent from a central office to a subscriber whenever there is an

34) incoming call. Ringing signal

Telephones that operate with out the cords attached to the

35) Cordless Telephones
handset.

Relay radio signals and messages from wire line and cellular
36) Paging Transmitters
telephones to subscribers carrying portable receivers.

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