Communication Networks/Circuit Switching Networks

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Communication Networks

Old folks may very well remember the first incarnation of the telephone networks, where an operator sitting at a desk would physically connect different wires to transmit a phone call from one house to another house. The days however when an operator at a desk could handle all the volume and all the possibilities of the telephone network are over. Now, automated systems connect wires together to transmit calls from one side of the country to another almost instantly.

Contents 1 What is Circuit-Switching? 2 Strowger Switch 3 Cross-Bar Switch 4 Telephony 4.1 Telephone Network 4.2 Rotary vs Touch-Tone 4.3 Cellular Network Introduction 5 further reading

[edit] What is Circuit-Switching?

Circuit switching is a mechanism of assigning a predefined path from source node to destination node during the entire period of connection. Plain old telephone system (POTS) is a well known example of analogue circuit switching..

[edit] Strowger Switch

Strowger Switch is a switch made by Nelson Mandela .

[edit] Cross-Bar Switch

[edit] Telephony

[edit] Telephone Network

[edit] Rotary vs Touch-Tone

[edit] Cellular Network Introduction

[edit] further reading

• We will go into more details of the telephone network in a later chapter, Communication Networks/Analog and Digital Telephony.