Telecommunication technology

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Department of Telecommunications Engineering

Synopsis:

Students will obtain the basic knowledge in a fundamental functional principles of the telecommunication systems, the digital transmission systems a signal processing theory. The main subjects are physical media parameters, access and backbone network technology, for example PDH (Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy), SDH (Synchronous Digital Hierarchy), ATM (Asynchronous Transfer Mode), xDSL (Digital Subscriber Line) and ISDN (Integrated Services Digital Network.

Requirements:

Labs measurement protocols, test.

Syllabus of lectures:

1. Telecommunication services, wideband requirements, standardisation

2. Telephone channel, voice signal processing, PCM30/32

3. Multiplexing methods, PDH and SDH transmission systems

4. Optical transmission systems - DWDM

5. Backbone and access networks, data links, data interfaces

6. OSI Reference model, protocols architecture

7. ISDN networks

8. ATM networks

9. Physical media parameters, digital siglan regeneration

10. Copper pairs, crosstalk, information capacity

11. Modulation methods, modems

12. xDSL systems, aplications

13. Optical access networks, hybrid networks, CATV

14. Wireless systems, mobile networks

Syllabus of tutorials:

1. Basic review of important terms and definitions

2. Transmission and data system components

3. Parameters measurement in telecommunication systems

4. Bit error rate measurement

5. Introduction into a particular labs

6. Symetric pair measurement

7. Fiber optic measurement

8. Noise resistant measurement

9. Data interface configuration on muldex

10. SDH muldex configuration

11. ADSL modem configuration

12. Test

13. Consultation

14. Credit

Study Objective:

Students are acquainted with the principle function of selected technologies of telecommunications technology.

Study materials:

1. Sexton, M., Reid, A.: Broadband networking: ATM, SDH and SONET. Boston: Artech House Publishers, 1997

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Softwarové inženýrství (elective specialized course)
• Web a multimedia (elective specialized course)
• Manažerská informatika (elective specialized course)
• Inteligentní systémy (elective specialized course)