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Lesson 2.

Public Switching
Telephone Network (PSTN)

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Class for Overview of Telecommunications

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1. Concepts
A telephone system supply voice connections between calling and called party

Calling party
Called party

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1. Concepts

Telephone is an
equipment transfer
signal from acoustic
voice to electric voice

Telephone

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1. Concepts

Telephone is an
equipment transfer
signal from acoustic
voice to electric voice

Telephone

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1. Concepts
Switch is an equip which perform electric connections between inlets and outlets

Relay switch

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2. PSTN Architecture

A hierarchical telephone network model


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2. PSTN Architecture

A private telephone network model

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3. Operating principle of the system

Flowchart for a telephone call


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Questions
1. What are the functions of switch in a telecommunication network?
2. Why do we have hierarchical telephone networks?
3. What are the functions of PBX?

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