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Telephone System -
Transmission Technologies
• The transmission and switching are shifting towards fully optical
systems:
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Analog Transmission
In analog transmission the physical
quantity of the signal carrying the information
(amplitude, frequency, phase) varies in a direct
relationship to the information to be
transmitted.
The nature of information transfer is
continuous.
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Digital Transmission
In digital transmission the continuous signal is first
sampled by slicing the signal at regular intervals into
discrete values.
Signal samples are then quantified, their amplitudes
are approximated to the nearest pre-defined value.
Quantified samples are coded into binary words.
After this, the binary words are transmitted.
The length of a coded binary sample depends on that
how accurate the quantization must be.
For example, if the signals are presented with 256
different (voltage) levels, the coded binary word is 8
bits long (28 = 256).
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Digital Transmission
Samples
Quantization
011 100 010
Binary words 15
Telephone System - Digital
vs. Analog Signaling
Digital vs. Analog signaling in Telephone system:
– stronger attenuation but
– possibility for multiple consecutive signal regeneration
– possibility congestion of data rates on the lines
– possibility for 1:1 data transmission (incl. image, voice,
stored data) between two points (i.e. high QoS)
– easier equipment implementation
– possibility for automation of maintenance
– the ability to add redundant information (e.g. for error
detection and correcting purposes) to the true
information stream …
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Telephone System - Digital
vs. Analog Signaling
Digital vs. Analog signaling in Telephone
system - continue:
– not so sensitive for interference as the analogue
transmission.
– the binary representation of the signal can be
transmitted, for example, by frequency
modulation when a frequency F1 represents the
binary digit ‘0’ and a frequency F2 is associated
with the binary ‘1’.
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Local Loops by Inter-
computer Communication
Doubled digital-to/from-analog conversion in local
loops of switched lines
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Main distortions:
attenuation A(log10d, f) dB/km - signal power losses
and signal shape wrapping
delay - different for the signal frequency components
overlapping of the components of different consecutive
bits
noise - caused by line/relay commutations and
junctions, signal inductive interference or random
energy sources 18
Local Loops -
Modulation/Demodulation
Modems: Digital-to-analog-and-analog-to-digital
converters. Analog coding is called modulation.
Digital [de]coding is called demodulation.
Analog signal is transmitted by sine carrier of
f = 12kHz. Modulation (i.e. analog coding) can
2/18 be performed by carrier tension amplitude, by
carrier frequency shifting or by carrier phase
shifting. Nyquist’s Theorem boundary: 3kHz
local loop bandwidth transmits up to 6kHz carrier
Advanced modulation techniques transmit multiple
(3-4) bits per baud by combination of amplitude
2/19 and phase shifting (QAM - Quadrature Amplitude
Modulation). 19
Local Loops - Circuitry
Electrical Modem/Computer interfaces
(DCE/DTE interface):
– RS232C (CCITT: V.24 standard): serial interface,
25 pin connectors including lines for in/out bit
stream, control, synchronization, clock. Null
modem - crossed transmit/receive data lines for
computer/computer (no modem) interface.
– RS232 variations ( RS422, RS423, RS 449 -
difference in ground lines for the signals)
Optical interfaces - for arising new telecom
services
FTTH (Fiber To The Home) - straight but expensive
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WDM
WDM is the technique for fiber optics that uses a similar
principle than FDM, except the channel discriminator is a
wavelength instead of time.
Each input data stream is converted into separate
wavelength. Each application creates a channel that operates
at a separate wavelength. After that, the WDM system
combines and at the same time transmits the channels
through the same optical fiber. Since each wavelength is
completely isolated from the other, protocols can be mixed
within the same link.
This is a great benefit to WDM, since FDM creates high-
speed time slots in the form of frames or cells, which allow
multiple applications to share the channel only if all
applications are of the same platform.
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WDM
Stable WDM systems today multiplex just a few
wavelengths over fiber to extend capacity. However, some
systems can now increase a fiber's capacity by
multiplexing 32 wavelengths and more. Still newer
multiplexers entering the market this year promise 40 to
80 discrete optical channels.
WDM is a costly solution, although it works with the
existing fiber infrastructure, since it requires additional
equipment like transmitters and optical amplifiers for each
wavelength. That equipment is quite expensive nowadays.
The WDM market is predicted to increase dramatically over
the next ten years as telephone companies, cable
television and other carriers maximize their optical-fiber
network capacity. 26
WDM
Besides the telephone system trunks
WDM is suitable for future LAN
network environment:
ETHERNET ATM ATM
... ...
ETHERNET
WDM WDM
TOKEN
RING
TOKEN
FDDI FDDI RING
FIBER
CHANNEL FIBER
CHANNEL
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Time Division Multiplexing
Applicable only in digital electronics (while
FDM is applicable only for analog data) - i.e.
TDM condenses just digital data for the
telephone company trunks.
Digitizing the analog signal by codec
(Coder-DECoder).
PCM - Pulse Code Modulation
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Switching Systems -
Hierarchy
Basically tree structure of hierarchy
levels (AT&T 5 levels) but:
– the nearer the root - the denser
connections in that level (up to full graph
2/37 of connections)
– interlevel shortcuts (“direct trunks) for
overloaded routes
Service Access Points are at the lowest
hierarchy level (at tree leaves)
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Switching Systems - Crossbars
nxn (in parallel computers: nxm) crossbar
(“crosspoint”) connects n inputs full duplex to n
2/38 outputs - one stage switch.
The matrix of elementary switches has n2
components.
The elementary switches are automatically
controlled in manner : in:om requires im:on; no
impossible combinations (full graph of
connectivity)
Delays
– by switching - hardly depends on hardware; down to
mS
– by signal propagation - no delay (commutation 42
independence)
Switching Systems -
InterLAN Crossbars
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Switching Systems -
Multistage Switches
Multistage switches consist of s stages
Each stage i consists of of ni independent
n:k (e.g. 2:2, 4:4) crossbar elements
(CE)
Static interstage connection scheme
(usually so called Banyan switching)
NO intrastage and interstage loops
Less hardware than crossbars: 8:8
crossbar needs 64 elementary switches;
8:8 Banyan multistage needs 12 CE by 4
elementary switches = 48, BUT
Possible rejected connections
Delays:
– by switching = delay for one
switching element
– by signal propagation = delay for one 44
switching element x s
Switching Systems - Time
Division Switching
Components: n-input multiplexer; n-slots interchange
buffer with associated n-pointers mapping table and n-
2/40 output demultiplexer
Switching method:
Round robin scanning (multiplexing) of n input lines and storing
the content in the indexed buffer
Reordering the contents of the buffer according to the scheme
in the mapping table in n steps [for double space buffers: in one
step input and output process overlap - “conveyer”]
Output the contents of the reordered buffer to n serial output
lines (demultiplexing)
Delays:
– by reordering: for non-conveyered switching the
delay depends on n; for conveyered switching the
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Electromagnetic spectrum
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Radio Transmission
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