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| What portion of the audio spectrum is associated with the intensity of speech? |
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| The intelligibility of spech is associated with what portion of the audio spectrum? |
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| What is the normal conversational speech signal level range maintained within multiplex systems? |
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| Speech signal levels are normally maintained between 0 dBm0 and -31 dBm0 |
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| Why are the requirements for speech transmission often less stringent than those for data transmission? |
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| Because up to 75 percent of the information content in speech is redundant |
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| What is the actual band of frequencies assigned for transmission of speech over a voice channel? |
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| How does noise affect the signal? |
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| It masks or interferes with the signal |
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| What are some causes of noise? |
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| Thermal agitation and radiation |
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| Is the time duration of a TDM sample critical? Why? |
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No, because as long as the sampling rate of the highest frequency in the intelligence signal is adequate, the size and frequency of the original waveform can be regenerated. |
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| How is the TDM sampling rate determined? |
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| By the Nyquist sampling rate definition |
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| What is the sampling rate commonly use in TDM systems? |
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| What effect does an increase in the number of channels in a TDM system have on its bandwidth? |
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| Increases the bandwidth required to transmit the composite signal |
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| What are the bandwidth requirements for a TDM system? |
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A TDM system must be able to handle the fundamental frequency and all the upper and lower harmonics produced during the modulating process. |
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| How can we reduce the bandwidth requirements for TDM systems? |
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By employing pulse-coding techniques and filtering the transmit signal. |
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| How do we maintain signal synchronization in the TDM process? |
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By use of synchronization or marker pulses in the bit stream. |
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| What constitutes a TDM "frame"? |
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| A frame is one complete set of pulses, made up of a marker pulse and one pulse from each channel. |
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| What is the difference between a TSI and TDM? |
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TDM combines signals so that can share a single line, while TSI switches information from one data stream to another. |
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| How is TSI beneficial in a system like DISN? |
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TSI allows connections to be made at channel level, giving systems controllers the ability to rout and test individual circuits. |
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| Briefly explain the basic TSI process. |
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PCM frames enter the TSI uit and are written to memory. The information about where they are to be routed is also written to memory. When the proper time slot on the outgoing data stream comes up, the frame is read out of memory into that slot. |
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| Briefly explain how a combination of time- and space-division switching is used in a TST division switch. |
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Multiple TSI units are connected to a space division switch, physically routing data from one TSI unit to another; no time slots are intercharged in the space switch. This type of configuration is used in large switching systems. |
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| What are the two basic TDM modes of operation? |
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(1) STDM. (2) ATDM statistical (Stat-Mux). |
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| What is the major difference between statistical multiplexing and STDM? |
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Statistical multiplexing periodically redefines the length of frames to change the number of time slots, thereby, changing its number of channels. STDM permanently assigns time slots for its channels. |
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| What is STDM less efficient than statistical multiplexing? |
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STDM transmits dummy characters on inactive time slots where Stat-Mux assigns tome slots only for active channels. |
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| What enables statistical multiplexers to survive short duration data surges? |
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| Extra buffers to temporarily store data. |
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| Which type of TDM uses sequential sampling? |
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| How are binary signals brought to the TDM sampling rate? |
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| By buffering, pulse stuffing, and interleaving |
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| How is accuracy provided in TDM? |
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By sampling the input signal at a high enough rate |
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| What technique is used to aid synchronization in a PCM data stream? |
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The formatting of TDM pulse streams into frames. |
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| Which framing pattern, short or long, is usually desired for a noisy transmission media? Why? |
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A longer framing pattern because of its ability to maintain synchronization without giving a false pattern. |
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| What is a disadvantage you must consider in determining a frame pattern to use? |
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The longer the framing pattern, the more the information rate is decreased. |
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| What are the types of synchronization? |
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(1) Asynchronous (2) Synchronous (3) Isochronous |
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| What problems are solved by synchronization? |
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Timing differences arising from (1) slight variation in operating rates at the two ends of the circuit, and (2) variations in propagation delay over the circuit. |
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| What is the basis for synchronization? |
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| What are some methods we use to provide correct timing? |
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Master clocks, synchronous pulses, and pulse stuffing. |
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| What type of synchronization requires that information on the time of occurrence of an added pulse be transmitted to the receiving equipment? |
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| What type of multiplexer is the AN/FCC-100? |
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| What is the maximum aggregate rate of the AN/FCC-100? |
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| What are the common modules of an AN/FCC-100? |
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The processor, mux/demux, aggregate, port carrier, and front panel interface modules. |
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| Describe the processor module. |
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| The processor module supervises AN/FCC-100 (V) 9 operation and communicates with all the other AN/FCC-100 (V) 9 modules and subassemblies. |
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| Describe the mux/demux module. |
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The mux/demux module accomplishes the mux/demux of data between the aggregate and ports. |
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| Describe the aggregate module. |
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The aggregate module transfers data between the local AN/FCC-100 (V) 9 internal high-speed data bus and the transmission path to the remote AN/FCC-100 (V) 9 unit. |
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Data rate of Low Speed Driver |
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Data Rate of RS-422-A/423-A driver |
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Data rate of T-CDI low speed driver |
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Data rate of T-CDI high speed driver |
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72k, 128k, 144k, 256k, 288k, 512k, 576k, 1024k and 2048 kbps |
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| What is the port carrier module? |
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Each port carrier module provides the interface and termination capability for two pieces of DTE and is designed to accept four plug-in sub-modules, interfacing the DTEs to the multiplexer. This allows the AN/FCC-100 (V) 9/9X to accept any of two interface sub-modules, including a daughter card, and four digital or two analog (2 write and 4 wire) types of informational formats. |
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| What are the three types of sub-port carrier modules? |
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(1) NRZ (2) Diphase (3) Voice |
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| What are the four digital-type daughter cards? |
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(1) Synchronous (2) Asynchronous (3) Isochronous (4) CDI |
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| What are the three analog daughter cards? |
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| What are the two dual port carrier modules? |
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(1) T-CDI Low Speed (2) T-CDI High Speed |
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| What are daughter cards for the special port carrier modules for FXS, FXO? |
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(1) PCM (2) CELP (3) STU III (4) LD-CELP Secure |
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Describe the interface module. |
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| The interface module is the communication link between the AN/FCC-100 (V) 9 and Operator's Panel or an external control terminal. |
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| What is the technology of WDM considered? |
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The technology of WDM is considered a method of improving the efficiency of fiber through condensing, or multiplexing, the transmitted channels. |
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In WDM, each device connected to the WDM is given a different wavelength of light or different color in the spectrum that allows the device to pass together across the fiber within the same area of light spectrum. |
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| What are the WDM technologies? |
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| They are WDM, CWDM and DWDM |
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| What does CWDM use to reduce cost? |
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| CWDM's use uncooled lasers with a relaxed tolerance of ± 3 nm. |
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| What characteristic must DWDM optical demultiplexer have? |
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First it must be very stable over time and temperature; second, it needs to have a relatively flat passband or region frequencies; and third, it must reject adjacent optical channels so that they do not interfere. |
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