| Introduction
to Telephony
Duration: 4 hours
STRUCTURE OF THE
INDUSTRY
- Motivation for
regulation in the telephone industry
- Evolution of the
current regulatory environment
- Impact of the
Telecommunications Act of 1996
- Service provider
categories
- Important regulatory
effects on service providers
OVERVIEW OF TELEPHONY
AND THE NETWORK
- Principal components
of the telephone network
- Role of signaling in
establishing and supervising telephone calls
- In-band and
out-of-band signaling, and the critical role of SS7
DIGITIZING THE NETWORK
- Digitizing an analog
signal
- Compression and
example compression techniques
- Benefits of digital
local loops and impediments to digitizing loops
- Time division
multiplexing in digital carrier systems, such as
T-carrier
- Shortcomings of the
T-carrier system and how SONET deals with them
- Structure and
function of digital switches
DIGITAL ACCESS
TECHNOLOGIES
- ISDN
- HDSL and SDSL
- ADSL
- Cable modems and HFC
systems
- Wireless loop
technologies
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