1. 3 Types of Telecommunications
Voice (standard lines)
analog and digital sets
Fax
modems
Data
dedicated and switched
Video
video phone, Internet, ISDN, DSL, T1, DS1, DS3, CATV, ATM... (Wireless??)

2. Telecommunications
Defined as: “the science or technology of communication by telephone, telegraph, etc.”
The Random House College Dictionary, revised edition
“Using technology to have two way communication over a distance. Whether it is voice, data, or video.” (Gary’s definition)

3. Definition of Telecommunications continued
The science of communicating over a distance by telephone, telegraph and radio.
A means of transmission or reception and the switching of signals, such as electrical or optical, by wire, fiber or electromagnetic transmission through the air.

4. Definition of Telecommunications continued
*****Defined as: “is the transmission of information – in the form of voice, data, video, or images, across a distance, over a medium, from a sender to a receiver-in a usable and understandable manner.”
Voice and Data Communications Handbook - Regis Bates

5. Telephones
“We use this service eight times per day, on the average. With this service, emergency aid can be quickly summoned, airline reservations made, goods ordered and purchased, and funds transferred. No special skills are needed to use this service. This ubiquitous service that totally penetrates our lives is the telephone.

6. ~110 Years in service
Telephone service is truly synonymous with communication, but is so taken for granted that we frequently forget its paramount position in our lives and society.”
Noll, A. Michael. “Introduction to telephones and Telephone Systems.” Boston. Artech House, 1998

7. Telephone Networks Telephones Transmission media Switching
Signaling to control everything

8. Basics of a Telephone network
1. Station apparatus
2500 set
Digital set
What else?
2. Transmission media
CO, DID, T1, DS3, what else?
3. Switching
PBX, Central office, long distance
4. Controlling the network
(signal that tell the equipment where to route the calls)

9. Definition of sound
Sound is also a type of wave that we cannot see. Like ocean waves, sound waves something to travel through like waves through the ocean or through a flag. Sound can travel through air because air is made of molecules. These molecules carry the sound waves by bumping into each other, like dominoes knocking each other over. Sound can travel through anything made of molecules - even water! There is no sound in space because there are no molecules there to transmit the sound waves. C/O:

10. Bandwidth
Definition of bandwidth: The width of the frequencies that comprises a signal or; the French mathematician Fourier: “any complex waveform can be decomposed into the sum of pure tones, or sine waves, at different frequencies and with different maximum, amplitudes and phases. A graphical plot of the frequencies that comprise a signal, or that are passed by a communication channel, is called the spectrum.”

11. Voice Bandwidth
Each telephone speech signal occupies a frequency spectrum from about 300 to 3,300 Hz (Hertz / cycles per second).
Typically know as a 3Khz bandwidth for voice.

12. Behind the scenes Transmission, switching and signaling Local loop
Central office to a POP
POP to Toll network
Trunking
Toll network to POP
POP to CO
Destination

13. Local Loop
Simply defined: The pair of wires running from your home (premise) to the local telephone company (CO or central office).
CPE to -
intra-premise wiring to -
Demarc
Protector block ( fuses, spark gaps ) to -
Local loop (pair of wires running back to the CO)

14. Basics on Wiring within a facility
Incoming lines from the CO to the PBX (demarc) CO
DID
PRI
DS1
PBX to the individual stations
Wiring center’s purpose

15. Local Exchange Carrier
LECs
? Who is your telephone company?
What services do they provide?
Dial tone
Calling features
Access to IXCs
What else??
They provide intra-Lata service

16. Competition to the LECs
Effects on costs?
What about service from the competition?
What about high volume calls versus low volume calls?

17. IXC’s or Interexchange Carriers
These are the long distance companies ie: AT&T, MCI, Sprint…
They provide long distance service across Latas or Inter-lata service

18. Pre 1984 network hierarchy Vertical monopoly Management R & D
Manufacturing
Local service
Long distance

19. Post 1984
7 Baby Bells
Which one are we in??
How many remain today?

20. Wikapedia’s current map

21. Was divestiture a good thing or not?
Opinions?
Teleco reps reactions during the 80’s
Quality of service issues
Who uses which long distance provider?
The state’s STS system
UW’s use STS
FVTC’s long distance provider

22. POP POP stands for Point of Presence
Page 15, The place where the IXC (inter-exchange carrier / long distance provider) connects to the LEC (Local exchange carrier / CO).

23. North America numbering plan
“Under the stipulations of the MFJ (Modified Final Judgment), the United States was divided into 160 local access and transport areas (LATAs)”
Bell operating companies could provide service within LATAs but not across LATAs (not inter-LATA services)

24. LATAs
LATAs basically provided a line of demarcation between local service provider and major long distance providers.
AT&T among others, provide long distance services from LATA to LATA
Local telephone companies provide service within the LATAs

25. Reading assignment – Finish reading Chapter 1
Subject – Electronic Communications