Published Resources Details
Conference Paper
- Title
- Development of telephone traffic measurement equipment and its application in the Australian telephone network
- In
- Electronic Instrumentation Conference, Hobart 1972
- Imprint
- Institution of Engineers Australia, 1972, pp. 95-103
- Url
- https://inis.iaea.org/records/8yafe-7p512/files/3026919.pdf
- Abstract
The paper discusses the data requirements for planning and supervision of the telephone network. Data of two basic categories are required: occupancy (traffic load) and dispersion (origin-destination). Traffic measuring equipment has been developed within the Australian Post Office to provide comprehensive occupancy and dispersion data throughout the network. It is planned to use the equipment at key exchanges in the trunk network and the larger terminal exchanges (exceeding 2000 subscribers). This represents some 600 exchanges throughout the Commonwealth. The data will be computer legible since computer aid is needed for editing and processing.
The data to be acquired are presented in a number of different forms and dispersed over various devices in the switching path of the telephone exchange. The fundamental design problem was to translate the data as presented by the switching equipment into suitable binary patterns, to assemble these patterns into ordered formats and write then on punched paper or magnetic tape.
The philosophy of the system design and the operation of the equipment are explained. Several devices within the system are described in some detail.
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People
- Smith, Norman Malcolm Hamilton (1932 - 2020)
[ Acknowledged as the original prime mover for establishing telephone traffic measurement.]