BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

CHAPTER 18 THE PUBLIC TELEPHONE NETWORK

# DEFINITIONS TERMS

It uses the largest computer network in the world to

Public Telephone
1) interconnect millions of subscribers in such a way that
Network (PTN)
the myriad of companies function as a single entity.

Identifies and connects the subscribers to a suitable

2) Switching
transmission path.

Supply and interpret control and supervisory signals Signaling

3)
needed to perform the operation.

4) The public telephone companies. Service Providers

Equipment and facilities that are available to Common Usage

5) all public subscribers to the network. Equipment

Another name for Public Switched Telephone

Dial-Up Network
6) Network (PSTN).

The transmittal of digital information between two

7) pieces of digital equipment. Data Transmission

Any device used to originate and terminate calls and

to transmit and receive signals into and out of the Instrument
8)
telephone network.

Station Equipment
9) The instrument is often referred.
The location of the equipment.
10) Station
Subscriber
11) The operator or user of the instrument.
The dedicated cable facility used to connect an
instrument at a subscriber's station to the closest Local Loop
12)
telephone office.

Similar to local loop except trunk circuits are used to

Trunk Circuits
11) interconnect two telephone offices.

Prepared By : JENNIFER F. DOCOT 112

BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

The dedicated cable facility used to connect an

12) instrument at a subscriber's station to the closest Local Loop
telephone office.

Similar to local loop except trunk circuits are used to

13) Trunk Circuits
interconnect two telephone offices..

A central location where subscribers are

14) interconnected, either temporarily or on permanent Exchange
basis.

Programmable matrices that provide temporary signal Switching Machines

15)
paths between two subscribers.

16) Exchanges connected directly to local loops. Local Exchanges

The first commercial telephone switchboard began

17 January 28, 1878
operation New Haven, Connecticut.

18) The first local telephone exchanges. Switchboards

A system of sensors, switches, and other electrical and

electronic devices that allows subscribers to give Automated Switching
19)
instructions directly to the switch without having to go System
through an operator.

Allowed subscribers to manually dial the telephone

20) Mechanical Dialer
number of the party they wished to call.

21) Commonly called for stepper or step-by-step (SXS). Strowger Switch

22) Simply the path over which voice, data, or video signals Circuit
propagate.

Prepared By : JENNIFER F. DOCOT 113

BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

A programmable matrix that allows circuits to be

Circuit Switch
23) connected tom one another.

Telephone call completed within a single local

24) Intraoffice Call
exchange.

Telephone calls placed between two stations that are

25) Interoffice calls
connected to different local exchanges.

26) Another name for interoffice calls. Interswitch Calls

Telephone switching machines in local exchanges are

27) Trunks or Interoffice Trunk
connected to other local exchange office.

It is used to interconnect local offices that do not have

Tandem Office
28) interoffice trunks directly between them. An exchange
without any local loops connected to it.

29) Switches that interconnect local offices only. Tandem

Tandem Trunk or
30) Trunk circuits that terminates in tandem switches.
Intermediate Trunk

Interstate long distance telephone calls require a

31) Toll Office
special telephone office.

North American
Provides telephone numbering system for the United Telephone
32)
States, Mexico and Canada. Numbering Plan (NANP)

It allows many subscriber to share a limited number of Concentrator

33)
lines to a central office switch.

A path between two subscribers and is comprised of

34) Route
one or more switches, two local loops; and possibly
one or more trunk circuits.

Prepared By : JENNIFER F. DOCOT 114

BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

A call that call cannot be completed because the

35)
necessary trunk circuits or switching paths are not
Blocking
available, the calling party receives an equipment
busy signal.

A local exchange where subscriber loops terminated Class 5 End Switching

36)
and received dial tone. Office

Class 4 office having only outward and inward calling Class 4P Switching
37)
service. Office

Class 4 office provided human operators for both

38) Class 4C
outward and inward calling service.

Switching office that provide service to small

Class 3 Primary Center
39) groups of class 4 offices within a small area
of a state.

Sectional centers that could provide service to

40) geographical regions varying in size from part of a Class 2 Sectional
state to all of several states.

Regional centers were the highest ranking office in the

Class 1 Regional
41) DDD network in terms of the size of the geographical
Center
are served and the trunking options available.

Toll trunks in tandem, excluding the two terminating Intermediate Links

42)
links at the ends of the connection.

Common Channel
A global standard for telecommunications defined by
43) Signaling System No. 7
the ITU.
(SS7 or C7)
Refers to the exchange of information
between call components required to Signaling
44)
provide and maintain service.

Prepared By : JENNIFER F. DOCOT 115

BOOK REVIEW IN COMMUNICATIONS Electronic Communications System By Wayne Tomasi

An architecture for performing out of band signaling in SS7

45)
support of common telephone system functions.

Long distance access is now accomplished Point of Presence

47)
through an access point. (POP)

A telecommunications term that describes the

48) legal boundaries for the responsibility of POP
maintaining equipment and transmission lines.

Provide access to the SS7 network, access to

49) databases used by switches inside and outside Signaling Points
the network.

Codes that are carried in signaling messages

50) exchanged between signaling points to identify Point Codes
the source and destination of each messages.

Service Switching
Local telephone switches equipped with SS7
51) Points
compatible software and terminating signal links.

52) The packet switches of the SS7 network. Signal Transfer Points

It serves as an interface to telephone company

53) Service Control Points
databases.

54) Another name for service control points. Signal Control Points

Provides access from one level of the protocol to

55) Primitive
another

Prepared By : JENNIFER F. DOCOT 116