ABSTRACT

EWSD - ELECTRONIC SWITCHING SYSTEM DIGITAL

Introduction
The Department of Telecommunications had announced ambitious plans for the
addition of 7.5 million lines to the existing 5.8 million by the end of the 8th plan
(1992-97) as compared to only 3.2 million in 1982-92.
Consequent upon delicensing of the Telecom. equipment and throwing it open to
foreign investments, six new technologies were planned to be validated. These foreign
suppliers set up their validation exchanges, each of 10,000 lines capacity (including
two RSUs of 2K each), at different places, e.g. EWSD of Siemens (Germany) at
Calcutta, AXE-10 of Ericsson (Sweden) at Madras, Fetex-150 of Fujitsu (Japan) at
Bombay, OCB-283 of Alcatel (France) at Delhi etc.
EWSD is one of the technologies selected for TAX and is also the technology for
Intelligent Network and Mobile Communication. This article gives a general
introduction to the EWSD system, its features, architecture and facilities.
System Features :
EWSD Digital switching system has been designed and manufactured by M/s
Siemens, Germany. The name is the abbreviated form of German equivalent of
Electronic Switching System Digital (Electronische Wheler Systeme Digitale).
EWSD switch can support maximum 2,50,000 subscribers or 60,000 incoming,
outgoing or both way trunks, when working as a pure tandem exchange. It can carry
25,200 Erlang traffic. It is claimed that the system can withstand a BHCA of four
million with CP-113C in case of EWSD Powernode (two million in case of EWSD
Classic). However, the effective dynamic call set up performance depends on the
available features and the actual call-mix. It can work as local cum transit exchange
and supports CCS No.7, ISDN and IN and V5.X features.
Objective
This project involves brief study of PCM concepts, Introduction to Electronic
Exchanges, Traffic analysis, Digital switching and description about EWSD
Electronic Exchange.
This project involves creation of different type of subscribers, i.e. analog, digital
subscribers with different facilities like CLIP, dynamic locking facility, call waiting,
call forwarding etc in EWSD Digital Electronic Exchange and brief study of routing
and charging concepts.

Inputs
1. EWSD hardware equipment.
2. Terminals for operation and maintenance.
3. Subscriber TENs (Terminal Equipment Number) and DN (Directory Numbers).
4. Telephone instruments.
Observations
Practical observations of Subscriber facilities/features and analysis of routing and
charging concepts.
Conclusion
EWSD is the main Telecom switching network deployed on PSTN platform and
exists all over India. This switch is mainly designed for voice communication. This is
the switch that is being used in the core network as Trunk Auto Exchanges and as well
as Local Exchanges providing last mile access to remote subscribers.