Introduction to Telecommunications (3 ECTS)

Code: XX00AA80-3017

General information

Enrollment: 30.04.2015 - 06.09.2015; Registration for the implementation has ended.

Timing: 01.08.2014 - 31.12.2015; Implementation has ended.

Number of ECTS credits allocated: 3 ECTS

Virtual portion: 3 ECTS

Unit: (2014-2015) Media and ICT

Campus: Bulevardi 31

Teaching languages: Finnish

Seats: 0 - 100

Degree programmes: Degree Programme in Information and Communications Technology

Teachers: Janne Salonen

Scheduling groups: ATX14SH (Size: 99 . Open UAS : 99.); ATX15KH (Size: 99 . Open UAS : 99.); ATX15TVK (Size: 99 . Open UAS : 99.); ATX15TVs (Size: 99 . Open UAS : 99.)

Groups: ATX14TVS
Avoin ammattikorkeakoulu syksy 2014; ATX15TVK
Avoin ammattikorkeakoulu kevät 2015; ATX15TVS
Avoimen ammattikorkeakoulun syksyn 2015 ryhmä

Small groups: ATX14SH; ATX15KH; ATX15TVK; ATX15TVs

Course: XX00AA80

No reservations found for implementation XX00AA80-3017!

Objective

On completion of the course, the student knows the most important fundamental concepts of modern telecommunication. The student masters the terminology of telecommunications so that he or she is able to follow the development of the area and search additional information about it.

Content

- Standards
- OSI and TCP/IP reference models
- General structure of telecommunication networks
- Basic concepts of transmission
- Signals and their basic properties, time and frequency domain, signal levels, link budget
- Digitalisation of speech, PCM
- Protocols

Assessment criteria, satisfactory (1)

Standards, OSI and TCP/IP reference models:
- Understands the meaning of OSI and TCP/IP reference models

General structure of telecommunication networks, basic concepts of transmission:
- Understands the central concepts of transmission

Signals and their basic properties, time and frequency domain, signal levels, link budget:
- Understands the basic properties of signals in time and frequency domain
- Understands the concept of link budget and decibel

Digitalisation of speech, PCM:
- Understands the process of speech digitalisation in PCM systems

Assessment criteria, good (3)

Standards, OSI and TCP/IP reference models:
- Is familiar with the most important concepts of OSI and TCP/IP reference models

General structure of telecommunication networks, basic concepts of transmission:
- Is able to apply the central concepts of transmission

Signals and their basic properties, time and frequency domain, signal levels, link budget:
- Understands the significance of analyzing signals in time and frequency domain
- Is able to analyze simple link budgets using decibels

Digitalisation of speech, PCM:
- Understands the most important methods used in PCM systems

Assessment criteria, excellent (5)

Standards, OSI and TCP/IP reference models:
- Understands the function of OSI and TCP/IP reference model layers

General structure of telecommunication networks, basic concepts of transmission:
- Understands well the central concepts of transmission

Signals and their basic properties, time and frequency domain, signal levels, link budget:
- Has a profound understanding of the significance of analyzing signals in time and frequency domain
- Is able to analyze more complicated link budgets using decibels

Digitalisation of speech, PCM:
-Has a profound understanding of the most important methods used in PCM systems

Qualifications

Introduction to Computing