Authorised by Academic Registrar, April 1996
Objectives The student is expected to develop a basic understanding of the structure, components, properties and performance of telecommunication networks as a framework and context for further studies of telecommunication networks, systems and technologies.
Synopsis Fundamental structures, functions, properties and performance of telecommunication networks; voice, video and data communications and their network performance requirements; coding, multiplexing, modulation, analog and digital transmission, transmission media; concepts of space and time division switching, circuit and packet switching; terminal and network signalling, common channel signalling, computer control; network performance, blocking, alternate routing, Erlang loss formula for dimensioning networks. Emerging networks and services.
Assessment Examination (1.5 hours) + Laboratory work