COMM SYS.
PRELIM REVIEWER:
1. Process of conveying information
from one place to another
2. Is a long-distance communications.
3. One of the most remarkable devices
ever invented
4. Anyone who uses a telephone or a
data modem on a telephone circuit
is part of a global communications
network .
5. The PTN is comprised of several very
large corporations and hundreds of
smaller independent companies
jointly.
6. The telephone system as we know it
today began as an unlikely
collaboration of two men with
widely disparate personalities:
7. The simplest and most
straightforward form of telephone
service.
8. Most fundamental component of a
telephone circuit
9. An unshielded twisted-pair
transmission line consisting of two
insulated conductors twisted
together
10. Comes from the Greek word "tele"
meaning from afar and phone,
meaning sound, voice, or voiced
sound.
11. The first telephone set that
combined a transmitter and receiver
into a single handheld unit was
introduced in 1878
12. Helps prevent the speaker from
talking too loudly.
13. The pair of wires connecting.
14. A series of telephone connection
interfaces that are registered with
the U.S. Federal Communications
Commission.
15. The most common telephone jack in
use today and can have up to six
conductors.
16. An apparatus that creates an exact
likeness of sound waves with an
electric current.
17. Is originally an electromagnetic bell,
placed directly across the tip of the
ring of the local loop.
18. Purpose of a Ringer.
19. Sometimes called a Switch Hook.
20. Helps solve an important
transmission problem in telephone
set design.
21. Is the transmitter of the telephone.
22. Converts acoustical signals in the
form of sound pressure waves from
the caller to electrical signals that
are transmitted into the telephone
network.
23. Enables the subscriber to output
signals representing digits.
24. Signaling messages can be
subdivided further into one or four
categories:
25. Indicate a request for service.
26. Provide call status information.
27. Provide information in the form of
announcements.
28. Provide the routing information.
29. Is strictly for signaling between a
subscriber's location and the nearest
telephone office or message
switching center.
30. Are used to transfer digits and
control signals between switching
machines.
31. Are combinations of two
frequencies that fall within the
normal speech bandwidth so they
can be propagated over the same
circuits as voice.
32. Occurs whenever the system is
overloaded and more calls are being
placed than can be completed.
1. Simplified Two wire loop showing
telephone set hookup to a local
switching machine
2. Functional block diagram of a
standard telephone set
3. Telephone call procedures
4. Cordless telephone system
5. (a) ringing cycle;
6. (b) frame format
7. Electronic telephone set
8. Simplified block diagram of a
standard simplex paging system
33. Is sent from a central office to a
subscriber whenever there is an
incoming call.
34. It is when the produced cross-
products are undesired when two or
more frequencies mix in a nonlinear
device.
9. (a) 500-type telephone set;
10. (b) 2500-type telephone set
11. plug and jack configurations showing
tip, ring, and sleeve
12. RJ-11 Connector
13. Call Progress Tone Summary
14. Call Progress Tone Direction of
Propagation
15. DTMF keypad layout and frequency
allocation
16. DTMF Specifications
17. Multifrequency Codes
ANS:

1. Communications
2. Telecommunications
3. Telephone
4. Public Telephone Network
5. Telco
6. Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson
7. Plain Old Telephone Service
8. Subscriber Loop or Local Loop
9. Local Loop
10. Telephone
11. Butterstamp Telephone
12. Sidetone or Talkback
13. Local Loop
14. RJ or Registered Jacks
15. RJ-11
16. Telephone Set
17. Ringer Circuit
18. Alert the destination party of incoming calls
19. On/Off Hook Circuit
20. Equalizers
21. Microphone
22. Microphone
23. Dialing Circuit
24. Alerting, Supervising, Controlling, and Addressing
25. Alerting Signals
26. Supervising Signals
27. Controlling Signals
28. Addressing Signals
29. DTMF
30. Multifrequency Tones
31. MF Tones
32. Congestion Tone or No-Circuit-Available
33. Blocking
34. Ringing signal
Block Diagrams:
Simplified Two wire loop showing telephone set hookup to a local switching machine

Functional block diagram of a standard telephone set

Telephone call procedures

Cordless telephone system

(a) ringing cycle; (b) frame format

Electronic telephone set

Simplified block diagram of a standard simplex paging system

FIGS:
(a) 500-type telephone set; (b) 2500-type telephone set
plug and jack configurations showing tip, ring, and sleeve

RJ-11 Connector

Call Progress Tone Summary

Call Progress Tone Direction of Propagation

DTMF keypad layout and frequency allocation

DTMF Specifications

Multifrequency Codes
Public Telephone Network
1. It uses the largest computer network in
the world to interconnect millions of
subscribers in such a way that the
myriad of companies function as a
single entity.
2. Identifies and connects the subscribers
to a suitable transmission path.
3. Supply and interpret control and
supervisory signals needed to perform
the operation.
4. The public telephone companies.
5. Equipment and facilities that are
available to all public subscribers to the
network.
6. Another name for Public Switched
Telephone Network (PSTN).
7. The transmittal of digital information
between two pieces of digital
equipment.
8. Any device used to originate and
terminate calls and to transmit and
receive signals into and out of the
telephone network.
9. The instrument is often referred.
10. The location of the equipment.
11. The operator or user of the instrument.
12. The dedicated cable facility used to
connect an instrument at a subscriber's
station to the closest telephone office.
13. Similar to local loop except trunk
circuits are used to interconnect two
telephone offices.
14. A central location where subscribers
are interconnected, either temporarily
or on permanent basis.
15. Programmable matrices that provide
temporary signal paths between two
subscribers.
16. Exchanges connected directly to local
loops.
17. The first commercial telephone
switchboard began operation New
Haven, Connecticut.
18. The first local telephone exchanges
19. A system of sensors, switches, and
other electrical and electronic devices
that allows subscribers to give
instructions directly to the switch
without having to go through an
operator.
20. Allowed subscribers to manually dial
the telephone number of the party they
wished to call.
21. Commonly called for stepper or step-
by-step (SXS).
22. Simply the path over which voice, data,
or video signals propagate.
23. A programmable matrix that allows
circuits to be connected tom one
another.
24. Telephone call completed within a
single local exchange.
25. Telephone calls placed between two
stations that are connected to different
local exchanges.
26. Another name for interoffice calls.
27. Telephone switching machines in local
exchanges are connected to other local
exchange office.
28. It is used to interconnect local offices
that do not have interoffice trunks
directly between them. An exchange
without any local loops connected to it.
29. Switches that interconnect local offices
only.
30. Trunk circuits that terminates in
tandem switches.
31. Interstate long distance telephone calls
require a special telephone office.
32. Provides telephone numbering system
for the United States, Mexico and
Canada. Concentrator It allows many
 subscribers to share a limited number
of lines to a central office switch.
33. A path between two subscribers and is
comprised of one or more switches,
two local loops; and possibly one or
more trunk circuits.
34. A call that calls cannot be completed
because the necessary trunk circuits or
switching paths are not available, the
calling party receives an equipment
busy signal.
35. A local exchange where subscriber
loops terminated and received dial
tone.
36. Class 4 office having only outward and
inward calling service.
37. Class 4 office provided human
operators for both outward and inward
calling service.
38. Switching office that provides service to
small groups of class 4 offices within a
small area of a state.
39. Sectional centers that could provide
service to geographical regions varying
in size from part of a state to all of
several states.
40. Regional centers were the highest
ranking office in the DDD network in
terms of the size of the geographical
are served and the trunking options
available.
41. Toll trunks in tandem, excluding the
two terminating links at the ends of the
connection.
42. A global standard for
telecommunications defined by the ITU.
43. Refers to the exchange of information
between call components required to
provide and maintain service.
44. An architecture for performing out of
band signaling in support of common
telephone system functions.
45. Long distance access is now
accomplished through an access point.
46. A telecommunications term that
describes the legal boundaries for the
responsibility of maintaining equipment
and transmission lines.
47. Provide access to the SS7 network,
access to databases used by switches
inside and outside the network.
48. Codes that are carried in signaling
messages exchanged between signaling
points to identify the source and
destination of each messages.
49. Local telephone switches equipped with
SS7 compatible software and
terminating signal links.
50. The packet switches of the SS7 network.
51. It serves as an interface to telephone
company databases.
52. Another name for service control
points.
53. Provides access from one level of the
protocol to another
Figs, tables , etc.
1. Dedicated telephone interconnections:
a. Interconnecting two subscribers;
b. Interconnecting one subscriber to five other telephone sets
c. Interconnecting four subscribers
2. The number of lines required to interconnect any number of stations is determined by the
following equation:
3. Patch panel configuration
4. Central office exchange:
a. without interconnects
b. with an interconnect
5. Local exchange:
a. no interconnections;
b. 874-3333 connected to 874-4444
6. Interoffice exchange system
7. Interoffice call between subscribers serviced by two different exchanges
8. Interoffice switching between two local exchanges using tandem trunks and a tandem switch
9. Interoffice call between two local exchanges through a tandem switch
10. Relationship between local exchange offices and toll offices
11. Relationship between local exchanges, tandem offices, and toll offices
12. Long-distance telephone connection
13. AT&T switching hierarchy prior to the 1984 divestiture
14. Choices of switching routes
15. Postdivestiture North American Switching Hierarchy
16. Example of an interexchange call between subscriber A in LATA A to subscriber B in LATA B
17. SS7 signaling point topology
ANS:

1. Public Telephone 22. Circuit 38. Class 3 Primary

Network (PTN) 23. Circuit Switch Center
2. Switching 24. Intraoffice Call 39. Class 2 Sectional
3. Signaling 25. Interoffice calls 40. Class 1 Regional
4. Service Providers 26. Interswitch Calls Center
5. Common Usage 27. Trunks or Interoffice 41. Intermediate Links
Equipment Trunk 42. Common Channel
6. Dial-Up Network 28. Tandem Office Signaling System No.
7. Data Transmission 29. Tandem 7 (SS7 or C7)
8. Instrument 30. Tandem Trunk or 43. Signaling
9. Station Equipment Intermediate Trunk 44. SS7
10. Station 31. Toll Office 45. Point of Presence
11. Subscriber 32. North American (POP)
12. Local Loop Telephone 46. POP
13. Trunk Circuits Numbering Plan 47. Signaling Points
14. Exchange (NANP) 48. Point Codes
15. Switching Machines 33. Route 49. Service Switching
16. Local Exchanges 34. Blocking Points
17. January 28, 1878 35. Class 5 End Switching 50. Signal Transfer
18. Switchboards Office Points
19. Automated 36. Class 4P Switching 51. Service Control
Switching System Office Points
20. Mechanical Dialer 37. Class 4C 52. Signal Control Points
21. Strowger Switch 53. Primitive

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