Telephones

Telecommunications systems will include internal communications within the platforms (telephone, radio, walkie-talkie, air-ground-air, navigation, public address) and external systems (telephone, telex, fax, telemetry, VFIF radio, and possibly satellite links). These systems are designed to handle the day-to-day communications as well as emergency situations. 

A large percentage of eddy-current inspections are conducted in the field, away from the home base and often in remote or inaccessible locations. Using local telephone lines or mobile phone lines would allow the inspector to beam his data back to the office. In this way highly qualified personnel can be consulted when problems or difficult to interpret results occur. Inspectors no longer need to feel isolated on site. 

The primary driver for the expansion of optoelectronic teclmologies is optical communications [2]. It was realized in the second-half of the 20th century that an increase of several orders of magnitude in bandwidth would be possible if optical waves were used as the carrier for telephone signals. The basic configuration of an optical communication... 

When the curvature of the reaction vessel is too great for the efficient operation of the bar type magnetic stirrer, a miniature solenoid-operated reciprocating stirrer may be employed (Fig. XII, 2, 19). This stirrer may be easilj constructed from a telephone relay or electric bell. It is advisable to have a control for adjusting the stroke while running. 

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Vertica.1 Axia.1 Deposition. The vertical axial deposition (VAD) process (18) was developed by a consortium of Japanese cable manufacturers and Nippon Telephone and Telegraph (NTT). This process also forms a cylindrical soot form. However, deposition is achieved end-on without use of a mandrel and subsequent formation of a central hole. Both the core and cladding are deposited simultaneously using more than one torch (Fig. 12). 

Eig. 1. Cable designs (a) coaxial cable (b) twisted pair cable can be unshielded, as in regular telephone wiring, or shielded (as shown here) with braiding or... 

The twists of twisted pair cable act as a shield against radio frequency interference (REI), and electromagnetic interference (EMI), and against the cross talk interference that a wire exerts on nearby wires the more twist the less interference. Telephone wires can use large numbers of pairs. In most cases the pairs are not shielded with braiding or foil, as shown in Eigure lb for data communication wire. Data communication wires work at very high... 

Combined Effect of Capacitance and Attenuation. When capacitance is high, the signal never reaches the 1 state before it starts declining to 0 again. This yields a signal in which the 1 and 0 states are nearly indistinguishable by the receiver and an error results. Since capacitance and attenuation are always present in telephone cables, for error-free transmissions the communications wire must have the lowest capacitance and attenuation possible. 

In the early 1990s, there were more than 9 x 10 km of fiber-optical telecommunication links in practical use in the United States. In addition, many other countries, notably Canada, Japan, and western Europe, have installed extensive fiber-optic communication systems. There are several transoceanic fiber-based telephone cables. Fibers are in use for intracity telephone links, where bulky copper [7440-50-8] wine is replaced by thin optical fibers. This allows crowded conduits in large cities to carry more messages than if copper wine were used. Fiber optics are used for intercity long-haul telephone links, for interoffice tmnk lines, and have replaced many microwave communication links. 

However, optical fiber communications are not useful only for long-distance communication links. Fiber-optic data links are also used in a variety of short-distance systems, for example in computer—computer links and for internal communications on ships and aircraft. Figure 16 shows some possible appHcations for fiber-optic communications, with respect to length and bit rate. The common carrier appHcations, like telephone links. He to the upper right of the dashed line labeled 100 MHzkm. However, a wide variety of other lower performance appHcations, illustrated to the lower left of the dashed line, are in use or under development. 

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