Course detail

Terminal Equipments

FEKT-BUKZAcad. year: 2010/2011

Familiarization with various types of terminal equipments for telecommunication networks, operation, types, connections to the telecommunication networks, interfaces. Telephone sets - analog, digital, cordless, GSM mobile phones, pay-phones. Additional equipments: Tarificators, answering machines. Facsimile machines: groups G1-G4, image encoding, communication protocol. Computer as terminal equipment. Modems: standards, error protection systems, data compression. CTI: Computer - Telephony Integration. ISDN terminal equipments, protocol DSS1.

Language of instruction

Czech

Number of ECTS credits

6

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

doc. Ing. Vít Novotný, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Telecommunications (UTKO)

Learning outcomes of the course unit

Knowledge from the area of terminal equipments, like telephone sets - analog, system dependent digital ones, ISDN, cordless (CT1, DECT), mobile phones, pay-phones; facsimile machines and faxmodem cards; answering machines, voice mail, etc.

Prerequisites

The subject knowledge on the secondary school level is required.

Co-requisites

Not applicable.

Planned learning activities and teaching methods

Teaching methods depend on the type of course unit as specified in the article 7 of BUT Rules for Studies and Examinations.

Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes

- 2 tests within laboratories - 15 points each (30 points maximum)
- final written examination - 70 points max.

Course curriculum

Not applicable.

Work placements

Not applicable.

Aims

The goal of this course is to allow students to get high level of knowledge about terminal equipments, about their structure, operation, and services provided by these terminals. During laboratory exercises student can practise working with samples of various types of terminal equipments.

Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences

The content and forms of instruction in the evaluated course are specified by a regulation issued by the lecturer responsible for the course and updated for every academic year.

Recommended optional programme components

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

PROKOP,J.:Účastnická telefonní zařízení,NADAS
ŠRÁMEK,J.:Technika dokumentové telegrafie,NADAS

Recommended reading

Not applicable.

Classification of course in study plans

  • Programme EEKR-B Bachelor's

    branch B-TLI , 2. year of study, summer semester, optional specialized

  • Programme EEKR-CZV lifelong learning

    branch ET-CZV , 1. year of study, summer semester, optional specialized

Type of course unit

 

Lecture

39 hours, optionally

Teacher / Lecturer

doc. Ing. Vít Novotný, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Terminal equipment - functions, position in communication system, structure, operation description of main blocks. Telephone set - block diagram, block operations, types of telephone sets.
Basic signalling for telephone connection establishment, supplementary signalling tones. Speech circuits - hybrid circuits, microphones and speakers, electronic speech circuits. Ringers - types, principal of electronic acoustic ringers.
Diallers - types, pulse and tone dialling, mixed diallers. DTMF decoders. Loudspeaker telephones. Protection circuits.
Cordless telephones - modulations, frequency bands, security protection, advantages and disadvantages, DECT system.
Pay-phones - types, main parts and their functions. Telkor TSA-4 - main parts, diagnostics, operation and maintenance centre. Identification cards - usage, types, features. Smart cards - types, contacts.
Facsimile transmission - principal, transmitter and receiver, main blocks description. Image scanning. CCD sensors - principal, features, characteristics, blooming effect. Image synthesis - types, their description.
Facsimile machine groups, characteristics. One-dimensional and two-dimensional image encoding, data structures.
Connection phases, types of signalling. Connection phases of machines with tonal signalling. Binary encoded signalling - message format, phase description of G3 apparatuses. Polling, multipage transmission, transmission mode exchange. ECM - basic procedures, solution of erroneous transmission.
ISDN terminals - services, types. Basic rate access, communication channels, S and U interfaces, network termination. Power feeding of NT and terminals.
Terminal access to the D-channel. Link layer of DSS1 - frame format, SAPI, TEI. Message layer of DSS1 - message types, structure, signalling messages during connection course. ISDN terminal structure - interface circuits, telephones, facsimile machines, ISDN cards, videocommunication.
Mobile terminals - services, telephones, modems, communicators, voice and data encoding and error protection.
Computer as a terminal equipment of telecommunication network - network interfaces, drivers, OS support for communication, protocols, applications
XoIP terminals - IP phones, IP videoterminals

Laboratory exercise

26 hours, compulsory

Teacher / Lecturer

Ing. Ľuboš Nagy, Ph.D.

Syllabus

Analog subscriber line simulator and tester of terminal equipments - terminal equipment functional block testing
Facsimile machine - functions, procedures and phases of communication, station configuration, communication parameters set up, document transmission.
Cordless telephones CT1 and DECT
GSM mobile equipments - voice services, manager services, data and fax transmission
Computer network remote access via public ISDN telephone network
ISDN terminal equipments - ISDN PC card AVM with Fritz software - services of multifunctional equipment
ISDN tester Sunset - DSS1 signalling monitoring
Videocommunication over ISDN and IP/Ethernet
WLAN terminal and access point configuration
VoIP solution - Cisco Call Manager and IP phones 7900 series