EC 401 Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks 3-0-0-3

Total Lectures: 40

1 Introduction to Switching Systems: Introduction, simple telephone

communication, basics of switching system [4]

2 Electromechanical Switching Systems: Introduction to Strowger

switching system, Crossbar switching systems, single stage and
multistage switching systems, common control, pulse dialling, tone
dialling [6]

3 Digital Switching Systems: Stored Program Control, centralised SPC,

distributed SPC, software architecture, application software, space
division, and time division switching, time multiplexed space division, [10]
time multiplexed time division switching and combination switching.

4 Traffic Engineering: Erlangs equation, blocking probability and B-D

equation. [4]

5 Telephone Networks: Subscriber loop, digital subscriber loop, high

speed digital transmission over subscriber line, wire-in, wire-less media,
coaxial cables, optical fiber cables, microwave propagation, satellite
transmission, numbering plan, charging plan, Inchannel signalling,
common channel signalling [10]

6 ISDN and ATM Standards: ISDN architecture, channels, interfaces,

protocol, B-ISDN architecture, frame relay, ATM protocols [6]

Text Books:
1 Telecommunication Switching Systems and Networks, Thiagarajan
Viswanathan, PHI
2 Telecommunication Switching, Traffic and Networks, J. E. Flood, Pearson
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