A Study on Telecommunication Network: Convergence of Telecommunication and Data Communication

Abstract

The telephone system wasoriginally designed to carry analog voice signals, the advent of computers anddata communication has led to it being increasingly used to also carry computerdata traffic. At the same time, telephone networks have evolved to takeadvantage of the digital technology made available by computers. Moderntelecommunication networks are designed to carry information in a variety offorms (e.g., voice, data, video, fax). Telecommunication and data communicationare fast converging.