S-72.423 Telecommunication Systems

Topics today

Practicalities

Grading

Some topics from course contents

Telecommunication networks have
much in common

Course contents: Networking subtopics

Paradigm shift

Network evolvement

Data and voice networks

Integrated Services
Digital Network (ISDN)

UMTS and Differentiated Services

Network/service adaptivity

Public Land Mobile Networks (PLMN)

Telecomm market players

Telecomm market players

Telecom services categorized

The ISO-OSI Model

The OSI-functions

Practical networks usually melt OSI

Each OSI-layer has its standardized services

Practical network stratums

The PSTN hierarchy

Example: PSTN Network operator in two towns

Telecommunications service requirements
from the physical level: QoS

Different services require different rates

Burstiness: video, voice, data

Speech and data communications

Bit errors and blocking

Symmetry

Security and secrecy*

Public switched telephone network (PSTN)

The PSTN (cont.)

The PSTN (cont.)

Integrated Services Data Network (ISDN)

Signaling networks

The Internet(working)

TCP/IP: Transmission Control Protocol
Internet Protocol: a distributed triumph

TCP/IP Network transmission

The playground of telecommunications markets

Future trends

Web resources