Telecommunications and networks

Telecommunications and networking are essential elements in communicating using today's electronics technology. However there are many technologies that are in use ranging from the traditional telephones, often referred to as POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) to the more up to date technologies including Ethernet, ADSL, Voice over IP, Mobile IP and many more.

Telecommunications technologies

Asynchronous Transfer Mode, ATM basics
E carrier and E1
Fibre optic data transmission communications

ISDN basics
Voice over IP, VoIP

Telecommunications standards & protocols

Erlang basics
IP Multimedia Subsystem, IMS

Mobile IP
SIP, Session Initiation Protocol

Networking communications

Ethernet tutorial
RS-232 basics tutorial
RS-422
RS-449 including interface and pinout

RS-485 tutorial
Serial data communications standards
USB, Universal Serial Bus
20 ma current loop serial interface

Analysis

Articles and papers provided by industry experts on telecommunications and networking topics.

Cloud Evolution: The Carrier Cloud
Open Telecommunications Platform, OTP for Open Communications
Optical Wireless Communications: An Overview
Measuring Jitter on Synchronous Ethernet Networks

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