Telecommunication Assignment
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Telecommunication Assignment
Added on 2020-05-04
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Telecommunication Technology 21.1Concept of telecommunication technologyThe term telecommunication is derived from the Greek which means communication which involves a long distance, through various forms of signals which comes from a transmitter to a given receiver.1.2History of telecommunicationsDuring the ancient times, there were many common ways through which the signals were produced such as lighting fires, beating drums and blowing horns [CITATION Sah13 \p 256 \l 1033 ]. However these ancient methods were insecure and unreliable, they did not facilitate fast transmission of information to many people at the same time which led to the massive innovations in telecommunications [CITATION Tar10 \p 155 \l 1033 ].The innovation of electricity led to the improvement in the quality of the ancient methods of communication. Information was transported at extremely fast speed by the electromagnetic energy, in a way which the traditional methods had no equals in cost and reliability terms. The start of all modern telecommunication can be dated back to the invention of the electric cell by Volta Alessandro [CITATION Joh14 \p 845 \l 1033 ].Thomas Sommering in 1809 proposed the first telegraphic system which was composed of one battery, sensors which were made of gold and 35 wires. The sensors were submerged in awater tank; when there was a signal passing from one of those wires, the electric current which was produced would lead to the water molecules splitting and near the sensor one would be able to see oxygen bubbles. Many other experiments followed such as; the experiments of Weber and Karl which was not successful.In 1843 Samuel Morse came up with a way to which each letter was to be assigned to a line, point, and space. The idea seemed to be having more significance than simmering's idea. The
Telecommunication Technology 3concept behind this was to the idea of reduced circuitry [CITATION Mar12 \p 124 \l 1033 ]. When technology became advanced away was improvised for converting those signals to the audible signals. The combination of those two factors led to the success of Morse idea which is still used up to date[CITATION Joh141 \p 695 \l 1033 ].With the innovation of both telephones and telegraphs: Electronics become a very important aspect of telecommunications, at first the electronics were used in the transmission of the signal but later on, it was used in the circuit commutation. The introduction of microelectronics and other informatics in telecommunications, there ware radical changes which took place in both the telecommunication networks and performance of the network. Pulse code modulation technology was innovated in 1938; the pulse code moderation technology was able to achieve the digital transmission of the voice signal by encoding and decoding it digitally.In the recent years, the significance of internet has grown. The flexibility which is given by TCP/IP suites and also the ISO/OSI protocols ensures a very strong foundation on devices of communications of different nature has been made easy and simple to achieve.The principal developmentsOptical fibre technology; the innovations in telecommunication involving the transmission technologies are evolving at a very fast rate. There is a strong competition between the digitaltransmission and digital switching [CITATION Eri16 \p 458 \l 1033 ]. The optical fibre cable technology is the dominant technology which is involved with the inter-exchange connections. The introduction of the fibre optical cables in the telecommunication has been gradual. But today the fibre optics cables are dominant in many countries in the world which are used for different purposes in the transmission of information from one point to another.
Telecommunication Technology 4Digitisation of the network; it's through the digitization of the network when the full benefits of the information technology and communication innovations can be fully seen this is because of the digitization of the network feasible sending, receiving and managing of information in a single infrastructure of telecommunication [CITATION Saj12 \p 521 \l 1033 ].Overall international comparison and overall assessment; this telecommunication development is to ensure that the access to the telecommunication services to the households is much easier and does not undergo any form of complication which may in turn results in the parties involved getting inability to transmit information from one point to anotherMobile network ;Mobile telecommunication has witnessed massive development in the last five years in many parts of the world the improvement in the technology, economic factors, and regulatory factors are the ones which have contributed to the massive developments which are seen in the mobile communications.Tariffs and regulations; a lot of prices of telecommunication products have been reduced this is due to the advancement of technology and its liberalization. The tariffs and other regulationhave made it possible and easy for people to communicate over a long distance such as people are now able to make international calls at a cheaper and convenient way [CITATION Lar10 \p 254 \l 1033 ].Leased lines they allow different users of the telecommunications to maximise the benefits ofvolumes discounts which are offered to the telecommunication services providers so as to enable the keep and manage to operate under the very competitive market.1.3 Technology behind telecommunicationsConnection channel refers to the physical medium of transmission or the logical connections which are over the multiplexed medium such as the case of a radio channel. A channel is usedto transmit an information signal from one end of the sender or transmitter to the other end of
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