Telephone - Analog, Digital, Transmission

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Introduction & Top Questions
The telephone instrument
- Working components of the telephone
  - Power source
  - Switch hook
  - Dialer
  - Ringer
  - Transmitter
  - Receiver
  - Anti-sidetone circuit
- Development of the telephone instrument
  - Early sound transmitters
  - Gray and Bell: the transmission of speech
    - The first devices
    - The search for a successful transmitter
  - Development of the modern instrument
- Cordless telephones
- Personal communication systems
The telephone network
- Switching
  - Switching systems
    - Manual switching
    - Electromechanical switching
    - Electronic switching
    - Digital switching
  - The switching network
- Signaling
  - Call-number dialing
    - Rotary dialing
    - Push-button dialing
  - Interoffice signaling
    - In-band signaling
    - Out-of-band signaling
- Transmission
  - Development of long-distance transmission
    - From single-wire to two-wire circuits
    - Problems of interference and attenuation
    - From analog to digital transmission
    - Coaxial cable
    - Microwave link
    - Optical-fibre cable
  - Overseas transmission
    - Terrestrial radio
    - Undersea cable
    - Satellite

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Until the early 1980s the bulk of long-distance transmission was provided by analog systems in which individual telephone conversations were stacked in four-kilohertz intervals across the transmission band—a process known as frequency-division multiplexing (FDM). However, particularly with the development of fibre optics (see below), these analog systems were rapidly replaced by digital systems. In digital transmission, which may also be carried over the coaxial and microwave systems, the telephone signals are first converted from an analog format to a quantized, discrete time format. The signals are then multiplexed together using time-division multiplexing (TDM), a method in which each digitized telephone ...(100 of 8665 words)

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