Class Notes CIT49900 1-26-10 telecommunications lecture

telecommunications lecture

LATA interlata or extralata
LEC local exchange carriers (own wire into premise)
IXC Inter exchange carriers
baby bells
local only had access to customers

OSI model - "physical layer is not sexy but it is golden" great quote by Dr Thomas Ho

http://www.engr.iupui.edu/cit/courses/cpt499/ecomm/topics/infrastructure/general.html

ILEC incumbent local exchange carriers
CLEC competitive local exchange carriers

ILEC leased cable to CLEC

wireless - lease infrastructure re-brand it and sell it

telecommunications act of 1996 is law
point was to incurage competition in telecommunications

communications act of 1934
distinction of voice vs data

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