Comp 346/488: Intro to Telecommunications
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 6:00-9:15, Lewis
Towers 410
Class 1
Optional reading (Stallings 7th -- 9th editions)
10.1, 10.2, 10.3
Chapter 1: 1.3, 1.4
Chapter 2, 2.1-2.6, especially 2.3 on TCP/IP
Topics
- POTS
- digital lines & encoding; transmission issues
- signal properties
- digitized sound and java programming
- packet-switched voice
- VOIP (Voice over IP): signaling protocols, IP management
- Synchronous Optical NETworks (SONET) and Asynchronous Transfer Mode
(ATM)
- cellular telephony; spread-spectrum
- Asterisk phone switch
Basics
- Telecom v datacom
- POTS
- history
- Asterisk
- basics of packet switching
- review of protocols, IP as example
Notes: