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CHAPTER 16
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Is a long-distance communications
Telecommunications
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Telephone
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Anyone who uses a telephone or a data modem on a telephone circuit is part of a global communications network .
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The PTN is comprised of several very large corporations and hundreds of smaller independent companies jointly.
Telco
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The telephone system as we know it today began as an unlikely collaboration of two men with widely disparate personalities:
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An unshielded trwisted-pair transmission line consisting of two insulated conductors twisted together
Local Loop
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Comes from the Greek word "tele" meaning from afar and phone, meaning sound, voice, or voiced sound.
Telephone
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The first telephone set that combined a transmitter and receiver into a single handheld unit was introduced in 1878
Butterstamp Telephone
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Sidetone or Talkback
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The pair of wores connecting. A series of telephone connection interfaces that are registered with the U.S. Federal Communications Commission.
Local Loop
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RJ or Registered Jacks
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The most common telephone jack in use today and can have up to six conductors.
RJ-11
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An apparatus that creates an exact likeness of sound waves with an electric current.
Telephone Set
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Is originally an electromagnetic bell, placed directly across the tip of the ring of the local loop.
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Purpose of a Ringer.
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Equalizers
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Microphone
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Converts acoustical signals in the form of sound pressure waves from the caller to electrical signals that are transmitted into the telephone network.
Microphone
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Enables the subscriber to output signals representing digits. Signaling messages can be subdivided further into one or four categories:
Dialing Circuit
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Supervising Signals
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Controlling Signals
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Addressing Signals
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Is strictly for signaling between a subscriber's location and the nearest telephone office or message switching center.
DTMF
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Are used to transfer digits and control signals between switching machines.
Multifrequency Tones
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Are combinations of two frequencies that fall within the normal speech bandwidth so they can be propagated over the same circuits as voice.
MF Tones
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Occurs whenever the system is overloaded and more calls are being placed than can be completed.
Blocking
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Ringing signal
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Telephones that operate with out the cords attached to the handset.
Cordless Telephones
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Relay radio signals and messages from wire line and cellular telephones to subscribers carrying portable receivers.
Paging Transmitters
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