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

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

The PTN is comprised of several very large

5) corporations and hundreds of smaller independent Telco
companies jointly.

The telephone system as we know it today began as

Alexander Graham Bell
6) an unlikely collaboration of two men with widely
and Thomas A. Watson
disparate personalities:

The simplest and most straightforward form of Plain Old Telephone

7)
telephone service. Service

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

Loop

An unshielded trwisted-pair transmission line

9) consisting of two insulated conductors twisted Local Loop
together

Comes from the Greek word "tele" meaning from afar

10) Telephone
and phone, meaning sound, voice, or voiced sound.

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The first telephone set that combined a transmitter

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

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

13) Local Loop

The pair of wores connecting.

A series of telephone connection interfaces that are

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

The most common telephone jack in use today and

15) RJ-11
can have up to six conductors.

An apparatus that creates an exact likeness of sound

16) Telephone Set
waves with an electric current.

Is originally an electromagnetic bell, placed directly

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

Alert the destination party

18) Purpose of a Ringer. of incoming calls

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

Helps solve an important transmission problem in

20) Equalizers
telephone set design.

21) Is the transmitter of the telephone. Microphone

Converts acoustical signals in the form of sound

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

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Enables the subscriber to output signals representing

23) Dialing Circuit
digits.

Signaling messages can be subdivided further into

Alerting, Supervising,
one or four categories:
24) Controlling, and
Addressing

25) Indicate a request for service. Alerting Signals

26) Provide call status information. Supervising Signals

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

29) and the nearest telephone office or message DTMF
switching center.

Are used to transfer digits and control signals

30) Multifrequency Tones
between switching machines.

Are combinations of two frequencies that fall within

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

Congestion Tone or No-

32) Equipment Busy Signal is sometimes.
Circuit-Available

Occurs whenever the system is overloaded and more

33) Blocking
calls are being placed than can be completed.

Is sent from a central office to a subscriber whenever

34) there is an incoming call. Ringing signal

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Telephones that operate with out the cords attached

35) Cordless Telephones
to the handset.

Relay radio signals and messages from wire line and

36) cellular telephones to subscribers carrying portable Paging Transmitters
receivers.

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