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  2. PSTN network topology - Wikipedia

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    PSTN network topology is the switching network topology of a telephone network connected to the public switched telephone network (PSTN).. In the United States and Canada, the Bell System network topology was the switching system hierarchy implemented and operated from c. 1930 to the 1980s for the purpose of integrating the diverse array of local telephone companies and telephone numbering ...

  3. Local loop - Wikipedia

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    Local Loop. In telephony, the local loop (also referred to as the local tail, subscriber line, or in the aggregate as the last mile) is the physical link or circuit that connects from the demarcation point of the customer premises to the edge of the common carrier or telecommunications service provider's network.

  4. Marker (telecommunications) - Wikipedia

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    A marker is a type of special purpose control system that was used in electromechanical telephone central office switches. Switches employing markers belong to a class of switches known as " common control ", as the purpose of a marker is to control the closure of contacts in the switching fabric that connect a circuit between the calling party ...

  5. Driver location sign - Wikipedia

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    On motorways distance marker posts also bear an arrow pointing towards the location of the nearest emergency telephone. [4] The number used on distance marker posts is also encoded into the numbers associated with motorway emergency roadside telephones. [5] In this way motorway control centre staff can pinpoint the telephone from which a call ...

  6. Multi-frequency signaling - Wikipedia

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    Digits are represented by two simultaneous tones selected from a set of five (MF 2/5), six (MF 2/6), or eight (MF 2/8) frequencies. The frequency combinations are played, one at a time for each digit, to the remote multi-frequency receiver in a distant telephone exchange.

  7. List of telephone switches - Wikipedia

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    List of the mainly electro mechanical switching systems from Hasler AG Bern, which were used in public telephone network in Switzerland for many decades. Hasler AG finally merged into Ascom in 1987. HS 25 (modified from the Ericsson OL-100 system with double relays and 25-point selector (Ericsson license), mainly used for small villages and ...

  8. Dial plan - Wikipedia

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    Dial plans in the public switched telephone network referred to as dialing procedures. [2] The collection of permissible digit patterns, so called digit-maps, for a private telephone system or for customer premise equipment, such as an analog telephone adapter (ATA) or an IP phone, is sometimes also called dial plan. A pattern may be as short ...

  9. Long line (telecommunications) - Wikipedia

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    In telecommunications, a long line is a transmission line in a long-distance communications network such as carrier systems, microwave radio relay links, geosynchronous satellite links, underground cables, aerial cables and open wire, and Submarine communications cables.