Theme: Data transmission based on channel and packet switching

Elementary channel

Elemental channel (or channel) - is a basic technical characteristics of the circuit switched network, which is fixed within a given type of network throughput value. Every link in the circuit switched network has a capacity of a multiple channel elementary adopted for this type of network.

In traditional telephone systems the value of the elementary channel speed is equal to 64 kbit / s, which is sufficient for high-quality digital voice.

For high-quality voice uses the frequency of sound vibrations amplitude quantization 8000 Hz (sampling time 125 ms intervals). To represent a measure of the amplitude is most often used 8-bit code, which makes 256 tone gradation (by sampling values).

In this case, the transmission of one voice channel is needed bandwidth 64 kbit / s:

8000 x 8 = 64000 bits / s or 64 kbit / s.

Such a voice channel is called an elementary channel digital telephone networks. A feature of the circuit switched network is that the bandwidth of each link must be equal to an integer number of elementary channels.