Evolution of telecommunication networks

Goals Of Presentation

1. Provide a background on what makes telecommunication systems work.

2. Look at how we implemented those functions through the years.

3. Focus on how advances in technology resulted in more services for less cost as the network evolved.

4. Predict where technology is going and how that will impact services of the future.

Elements of Communication(figure) -> (postscript version)

1. Transmission(figure) -> (postscript version)
   • Analog Signal to Digitized Signal

   • Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)(figure) -> (postscript version)

2. Switching(html)

3. Signaling(html)

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The Future(text)

Personal Communications Systems(text)

Speed(image)

Multimedia/Imaging(text)

Reliability(text)

Photonics(text)

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