Telecommunications I

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Credits: 4 Prerequisite: Completion of first year Electronics/Telecommunications Technology or departmental approval. Corequisite: Concurrent registration in, or previous successful completion of, ELEC 232L or departmental approval. Typically Offered: FALL This course introduces a basic telephone local loop and the tests that are performed on it. A basic series DC circuit allows students not only an introduction into the access circuit, but is a good review of basic DC circuits in a real world application. Students use specialized test equipment to perform measurements of voltage, current, resistance, capacitance, and noise and circuit length. Students also are be introduced to cable location and ground fault location. An outdoor practice field is used for the student's hands-on tasks. Additional topics covered are the Public Switched Telephone Network, customer premise equipment, analog and digital transmission.