| Preface | p. xi |
| Functional Structure of Digital Switching Exchanges | p. 1 |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Switching Exchanges and Computers | p. 1 |
| A Canonical Functional Model for the Switching Exchanges | p. 7 |
| Exchange Terminations for Analog Subscriber Lines (B.O.R.S.C.H.T.) | p. 13 |
| Basic Rate Interface Exchange Terminations for ISDN Subscribers | p. 16 |
| Exchange Terminations for Analog Trunks | p. 18 |
| PCM Line Exchange Terminations | p. 20 |
| Exchange Terminations for Common Signaling Channels | p. 25 |
| Exchange Terminations for Data Channels | p. 28 |
| ISDN Primary Rate Interface | p. 28 |
| Circuit-Switching Matrix | p. 29 |
| Packet Switching | p. 31 |
| Testing Devices | p. 32 |
| Intelligent Networks and Additional Subscriber Services | p. 34 |
| Conclusions | p. 35 |
| An Example of Switching Matrices | p. 36 |
| References | p. 40 |
| Application Software for Telephone Switching Exchanges | p. 41 |
| Introduction | p. 41 |
| Signaling Preprocessing and Postprocessing | p. 44 |
| Subscriber Line Signaling | p. 46 |
| Register Signaling | p. 49 |
| Common Channel Signaling | p. 50 |
| Data Links | p. 55 |
| Signaling for ISDN Lines and for X. 75 Packet-Switching Lines | p. 58 |
| Switching Matrix | p. 61 |
| Data Processing Peripherals | p. 62 |
| Testing Devices | p. 63 |
| Circuit-Switched Automatic Calls | p. 64 |
| Main Processes | p. 64 |
| Routing | p. 68 |
| Interworking | p. 73 |
| Charging | p. 76 |
| Semiautomatic Circuit-Switched Calls | p. 78 |
| Tickets and Files | p. 79 |
| Incoming Call Queues | p. 80 |
| Operator Services | p. 82 |
| Ticket Files | p. 84 |
| Application Activities for Semiautomatic Traffic | p. 86 |
| Packet Switching | p. 89 |
| Packet-Switching Functions | p. 89 |
| Packet-Switching Application Software | p. 104 |
| Operation and Maintenance | p. 108 |
| Operation Functions | p. 109 |
| Maintenance Functions | p. 111 |
| Person-Machine Interactions | p. 113 |
| Operation Software | p. 115 |
| Maintenance Software | p. 119 |
| Person-Machine Interaction Software | p. 121 |
| Measuring Procedures | p. 123 |
| Conclusions | p. 126 |
| Alternative Architectures of Digital Switching Systems | p. 129 |
| Introduction | p. 129 |
| Architectures Using Monolithic and Centralized Common Control | p. 130 |
| Regionalized Common Controls | p. 133 |
| Service Computers | p. 137 |
| Segmentation of the Central Control | p. 140 |
| Exploded Architecture for Common Controls: The Case of System 12 | p. 145 |
| Modular Exchanges Implemented as Complete, Lossless Networks of Autonomous Switches | p. 148 |
| Networks of Elementary Exchanges Connected by Structures Operating in Circuit and Message Mode | p. 152 |
| Conclusions | p. 156 |
| References | p. 157 |
| Redundant Architectures and Software Quality | p. 159 |
| Introduction | p. 159 |
| Tightly Coupled, Microsynchronized, Central Controls | p. 161 |
| An SDL Architecture for the Software of Switching Exchanges | p. 168 |
| Loosely Coupled Macrosynchronous Controls | p. 175 |
| Central Control with Common Memory | p. 181 |
| Regional Processors | p. 188 |
| Service Computers | p. 189 |
| Software Quality | p. 192 |
| Conclusions | p. 197 |
| References | p. 199 |
| Index | p. 201 |
| The Author | p. 207 |
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