Course Title:
Telecommunications Architecture and Systems
Course Description:
Seeks to provide an understanding of the telecommunications network today and how it is evolving. Focuses primarily on the Public Switched Telephone Network-architecture, network systems, and call control-and on cellular wireless systems. Topics include coding of audio and video sources, including PCM, compression techniques, standards; digital transmission, SONET/SDH, network synchronization, digital switching; and the optical core. Addresses network survivability, traffic engineering, routing, and numbering. Explores issues in call control, signaling, and telephony services including DTMF, SS7/CCS architectures and protocols, call models. Discusses cellular networks including review of radio communications, cellular concept, wireless access technologies, handoff, second- and third-generation standards, mobility management, voice and data architectures. Introduces evolution of the network to packet: media and signaling protocols, QoS issues, PSTN interworking.
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Prerequisite 1:
TSM G310
Summer 2 Offering:
Prerequisite 2:
TSM G330
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Repeatable:
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