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III B.Tech Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2008 TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCHING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS ( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electronics & Telematics) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. (a) List all the event sequences that occur for call setup , call maintenance and call termination in a telephone exchange environment for i. Local call ii. Trunk call. (b) Estimate the number of the cross points required to design an exchange that supports 500 users on a non blocking basis and 50 transit , outgoing or incoming calls simultaneously. [8+8] 2. What are the dierent ways of controlling the time switch? Explain. [16]

3. (a) What are the charges for telephone call of 1, 3 and 5 minute durations on BSNL telephone network, from warangal to kavali which are separated by a radial distance of 312 km. Determine these values for peak hours and o peak hours? (b) A local loop has a resistance of 1 k and the telephone connected to it has an o hook resistance of 250 .Find the loop current and voltage when the phone is i. ONHOOK ii. OFFHOOK. The CB voltage is 48V. 4. (a) Describe typical telephone trac pattern on a working day? (b) An exchange serves 2000 subscribers. If the average BHCA is 10,000 and the CCR is 60%, Calculate the busy hour calling rate. [8+8] 5. (a) Explain point to point and Multipoint data communication circuit congurations. (b) What are the merits and demerits of serial and parallel data transmission. (c) Explain basic concepts of connection oriented and connectionless protocols. [6+4+6] 6. (a) Explain the function of each layer of ISO OSI reference model with the help of neat sketch. (b) What are the principles that were applied to arrive at dierent layers in OSI reference mode ? Explain. [10+6] 7. (a) What are the objectives of ISDN ? Explain. 1 of 2 [8+8]

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(b) Describe the conceptual view of ISDN and what is meant by the term digital pipe. (c) Discuss ISDN system connections and Interface units. 8. Briey explain (a) STS-1 signal frame format. (b) Automatic Protection Switching. [8+8]

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III B.Tech Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2008 TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCHING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS ( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electronics & Telematics) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. (a) Compare the features of single stage and multistage switching network congurations? (b) A fully connected network supports full duplex communication using unidirectional links. Show that the total number of links in such a network with n nodes, is given by 2n C2 . [8+8] 2. (a) Show that time division switching networks are more cost eective than space division networks? (b) An analog non folded time division space switch is to be designed to support 32 inlets and outlets each . Assuming bidirectional trac, i. What is the time duration that is available for exchanging samples for one Connection ? ii. What is the size of the control memory if the switch is output controlled? iii. What is the clock rate? [8+8] 3. (a) Explain about the techniques used to meet the resistance and attenuation constraints when subscriber need to connect to exchange which is beyond the maximum prescribed distance? (b) In a national transmission system the characteristic impedance of the 4-wire circuit are 1000 and 1200 respectively. The average phase velocity of the signal in the circuit is 3 107 m/s. If the largest distance of a connection is 300 km, determine the attenuation to be inserted in the circuit. [8+8] 4. (a) Describe typical telephone trac pattern on a working day? (b) An exchange serves 2000 subscribers. If the average BHCA is 10,000 and the CCR is 60%, Calculate the busy hour calling rate. [8+8] 5. (a) Explain dedicated client / server networks. (b) Explain layered network architecture. [8+8]

6. (a) What is Internetworking ? Explain in how many ways networks dier? What are the functions of Gateway? (b) Distinguish between transparent and non-transparent fragmentation? [10+6] 7. (a) Explain objectives and services of ISDN. (b) Explain protocol architecture of ISDN. 1 of 2 [8+8]

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8. (a) What are elds of Section & Line over head? what is its signicance? (b) What are the elds of Path over head ? what is its signicance?

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III B.Tech Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2008 TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCHING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS ( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electronics & Telematics) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. (a) Explain about main design considerations for touch tone signaling? (b) If the signal input to an amplier is 0 dBm, what is the power output in Mw if the gain of the amplier is 20dB. [10+6] 2. (a) Compare centralized and distributed SPC? (b) Determine the switch advantage ratio of a three-stage network with N inlets and N outlets for the cases when i. N=128 and ii. N=32,768. 3. (a) What are the factors that limit the length of subscriber loop? Explain. (b) Determine the reference equivalent of a local call circuit, given the following REs: For the telephone set, TRE = 3 dB, RRE = -3dB For the subscriber line loop, TRE = 10 dB, RRE = 8 dB For the exchange switch, RF = 1 dB. [8+8] 4. (a) Dene the following terms i. ii. iii. iv. Call completion rate Erlang Busy hour call attempts CCS. [8+8]

(b) A group of 20 servers carry a trac of 10 erlangs. If the average duration of a call is three minutes, Calculate the number of calls put through by a single server and the group as a whole in a one-hour period. [8+8] 5. (a) Explain point to point and Multipoint data communication circuit congurations. (b) What are the merits and demerits of serial and parallel data transmission. (c) Explain basic concepts of connection oriented and connectionless protocols. [6+4+6] 6. Draw the reference model used by Internet and explain the function of each layer. What are protocols used by the model. Compare with OSI / ISO reference model. [16]

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7. (a) What are the data link protocols used by ISDN ? Explain. (b) Describe the four categories of messages in the ISDN network layer 8. (a) Compare ADSL, VDSL, HDSL and SDSL Technologies. (b) What is CM & CMTS ? Explain . [10+6]

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III B.Tech Supplimentary Examinations, Aug/Sep 2008 TELECOMMUNICATION SWITCHING SYSTEMS AND NETWORKS ( Common to Electronics & Communication Engineering and Electronics & Telematics) Time: 3 hours Max Marks: 80 Answer any FIVE Questions All Questions carry equal marks 1. (a) List all the event sequences that occur for call setup , call maintenance and call termination in a telephone exchange environment for i. Local call ii. Trunk call. (b) Estimate the number of the cross points required to design an exchange that supports 500 users on a non blocking basis and 50 transit , outgoing or incoming calls simultaneously. [8+8] 2. (a) Explain the operation of input controlled and output controlled time division space switch with the help neat sketches? (b) A PABX is designed using an output-controlled digital time division space switch for supporting 128 subscribers. The transmission between the subscribers and the exchange is analog. On an average, 25 % of the subscribers are active simultaneously, compare the cost of output- controlled and memorycontrolled congurations. [8+8] 3. (a) What are the major components of telecommunication network? Explain in detail about subscriber loop systems. (b) An exchange uses a -40 V battery to derive subscriber lines. A resistance of 250 is placed in series with the battery to protect it from short circuits. The subscribers are required to use a standard telephone set which oers a d.c. resistance of 50. The microphone requires 23mA for proper functioning. Determine the farthest distance from the exchange at which a subscriber can be located if 26 AWG conductor is used. [8+8] 4. (a) Dene overload trac and explain dierent ways of handling it. (b) Over a 20-minute observation interval, 40 subscribers initiate calls. Total duration of the calls is 4800 seconds. Calculate the load oered to the network by the subscribers and the average subscriber trac. [8+8] 5. (a) Explain the functions and features of data communication network components. (b) Discuss peer to peer client / server networks. [8+8]

6. (a) Dene open system interconnection. Name and explain functions of each of the Layers of the OSI model. 1 of 2

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(b) Describe the operation of star, bus ring and hybrid Network topologies [8+8] 7. (a) What are the principles of ISDN. Describe the evolution of ISDN. (b) Explain the architecture of ISDN. 8. (a) Explain the terms Section, Line & Path related to SONET (b) Explain Device- Layer relationship in SONET (c) What is the Relationship between STS & STM signals? [6+4+6] [10+6]

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