...Voice vs. Data In this lesson we talked about seven things to compare the difference between voice and data communication. The first item are cell phones, cell phones are voice and data communications. Cell phones are a mobile device used for voice and data communication over a network of base stations, sites where antennas and electronic communication equipment together create a cell in a mobile phone network. Today mobile phones are used for many other purposes than the standard voice function, which is it primary purposes. Mobile phones are used for text messaging by means of SMS, for sending and receiving videos and photographs by means of MMS and for email and internet services using GPRS. The second was Landline phones, Landline phones are voice communication. Landline telephones serve a variety of functions, even in today’s largely mobile world. Accessibility of landline phones for people with disabilities means that the range of services provided through landline phones to everyone without disabilities is also accessible in some ways that provides equivalent functionality for people with disabilities. There are several accessibility features which are either present in a telephone, or can be added by attachment; these included speakerphone functionality, large keys, flash on incoming calls, ability to connect a Braille reader. Landline phones are also used for very limited data collection, data retrieval and remote control through the digit transmission they...
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...Assignment 1 - Voice vs. Data • Cell phones uses both voice and data with the use of cell tower to send data from the network to the cell phones. First Generation (1G) phones were known for their voice data. However, when Second Generation (2G) phone were created, they were about to transmit and receive via voice and data networks. Third Generation (3G) and Forth Generation (4G) both transmit and receive via voice and data networks as well. In fact, cell phones are commonly used to transmit via data networks due to people preferring to text/email rather than placing voice calls to one another. • Landline phone use both data and voice networks. Landlines work by transmitting voice and data signals by copper wire through electric pulses. This means landline phones would still work even if there was a blackout or a satellite disturbance, causing interference with mobile phones. • SMS / Text Messaging use data network. SMS also known as Short message services, also called Text messaging. SMS//Text messages are a way to send and receive messages over mobile networks. SMS / text messages can only contain 160 characters. • Fax Machines use an analog data signal. Faxed items immediately gets digitized and packaged in secure TCP packets and sent to natural data Inc. • Pagers use a data signal. It is a way to notify individuals of incoming calls by a tone. One-way pagers can only receive messages, while response pagers and two-way pagers can also acknowledge, reply to, and originate...
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...Voice vs. Data • Cell phones- used for voice and data communication over a network of base stations. Where antennas and electronic communication equipment together create a cell in a mobile phone network. • Landline phone- uses two copper wires must transmit two things: signals and voice. The two wires, usually coated green and red, are the heart of the process that makes the phone work. • SMS / Text Messaging- Short message services also known as SMS. Text messages are a way to send and receive messages over mobile networks. SMS / text messages can only contain 160 characters. SMS and Text messaging uses data. • Fax Machines- fax is sent it immediately getting digitized and packaged in secure TCP packets and sent to natural data, secure Network Operations Center (NOC) for final delivery to its destination. • Pager- A pager is a communications device that receives the messages transmitted from a paging controller. The message is carried by Radio Frequency (RF) energy transmitted by the paging controller. • VOIP (voice over IP) phone- Analog voice calls are converted into packets of data. The packets travel like any other type of data, such as e-mail, over the public Internet and/or any private Internet Protocol (IP) network. VoIP phones allow us to bypass the phone companies completely, it uses data networks • Skype / Face time- You must have a data network. These two services are both internet calling applications. The main purposes of these applications are to allow...
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...carriers use data networks. Some of the most common technologies used are HSDPA, HSUPA, EDGE, HSPA and UMTS. These are all 3G technologies and provide some of the fastest 3G speeds. 2. Landlines also use data networks. Once the sounds leave your home or business on the telephone lines it will go to the Telco’s switch in the area or to a digital concentrator box. Here your voice is digitized into 8,000 samples per second and 8-bit resolution before being transmitted onto its destination. 3. SMS/Text Messaging uses data networks also. This would seem natural since most cell phones use data networks and SMS/Text Messages are sent from cell phones. The way it works is because cell phones are always sending and receiving information, even when they are not in use. This is so the phone is constantly telling towers where it is so when a message is sent to a particular number the message can find its intended recipient. 4. Not surprisingly, Fax Machines use a data network to send information. This is done by digitizing an image. I say image because even if it is a text document it is still taking a picture of the document and transmitting it to the recipient. It is divided into a grid of dots and each dot would either be “on” or “off” using a 1 or 0. 5. Pagers use a data network also. Pagers are used to send messages and are sent from either a phone line or through email. There is not the option to send any type of document and/or voice communication and therefore a voice network would...
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...in a given area. It use both voice and data network. 2. A landline telephone is a device with a physical line connection to a telecommunications network. The phone is plugged into a phone jack in the wall in order to connect with the larger system of cables and relays controlled by the telephone company. These phones use voice network. 3. SMS (short message service) is text messaging. The maximum size of one text is 160 characters. The phone is constantly sending and receiving information. It is talking to its cell phone tower over a pathway called a control channel. The reason for this chatter is so that the cell phone system knows which cell your phone is in, and so that your phone can change cells as you move around. The tower sends the message to your phone as a little packet of data on the control channel. 4. A document is scanned with a fax machine which processes the contents as a single fixed graphic image, converting it into a bitmap and then transmitting it through the voice network. 5. The paging service takes the message and sends it onto the paging centre. The paging centre transmits the message via radio signal (data network) to the base stations and transmitters. 6. VOIP is a method for taking analog audio signal, and turning them into digital data that can be transmitted over the Internet. 7. Skype is software that enables users to make video and voice calls with other Skype users and non-users. It relies on voice-over-Internet protocol, VoIP...
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...Cell phones are both voice and data. Voice was the first initiative use for the phone. Then after they have noticed that the cell phone could transfer data, they decided to push the data limitations. That is how we got to 4g today. A landline is voice without a modem. The landline cannot transfer data unless it has a converter called a modem. When this modem is applied the landline then could connect to a computer and transfer data. Sms/text messaging is definitely just data. There is no voice involved in those programs. Texting is the same as typing and is delivered like a message from an email. Sms is correlated with chat online which is a data transfer. Fax machines are considered voice/data. With this I do get confused. On some fax machines you talk on them, while others are more like computers. Most fax machines are connected to the landline. Pagers are data, there is not talking into them. And you can only receive data, and maybe send one back. Some pagers are considered sms/text messengers, with that in mine; it definitely reassures me that it is a data. VoIP is data. You ask me how I know. I say because of the cord that it has to go through. It would most likely go through a cat 5. VoIP is an online phone service. Anything online is considered data regardless of the voice that you get to input into it. Skype and face time are both voice and data. It really depends I guess where you Skype from or with what. Cell phones are both data and voice. So what is Skype…...
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...Phones – The first generation of cell phones transmitted voice through an analog wireless connection. The current generations of phones use both voice and data sent over digital wireless connections to transmit their signals. A cell phone is used for full duplex two-way radio telecommunications (for both voice and data) over a cellular of stations known as cell sites. Landline Phones – Landline phones use analog voice. They are connected to the Central office by a local loop that is 2 copper wires in a twisted pair. Landline phones get their power from this local loop. Also call POTS nowadays or Plain Old Telephone Service. SMS/Text Messaging – SMS stands for Short Message Service. The control channel (a pathway from your cell phone to the cell tower) provides the pathway for SMS messages. When you send an SMS message, the message flows through the SMSC, then to the tower, and the tower sends the message to the phone as a little packet of data on the control channel. Fax Machines – Fax Machines connect to another device on the other end of the line. They convert the images to data and transmit them over the analog telephone lines. If the spot of paper that the photo cell was looking at were white, the fax machine would send one tone; if it were black, it would send a different tone. Pagers – pagers work on radio waves similar to cell phones. When someone calls a pager and inputs a number it gets sent to the pager via a data packet. A pager is primarily used in hospitals, any office...
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...phones I would say uses both data and voice. You can use these devices to talk to other people via voice, and you can use it to access the internet via data services. Cell towers are essential for either of these functions to work. • Landline Phones - Landline phones originally were voice only. Created to carry audio from human beings. With the invention of modems, and then to IDNS and now DSL, it is also used as data as well. • SMS / Text Messaging – SMS / Text messaging uses Data services. These services allow you to send and receive blocks of characters (ie letters / numbers) between devices. There are no vocal communication done between these devices. • Fax Machines – Fax Machines use data services. It takes a digital print of a document and turns them into packets of data to be sent to a receiving fax machine that then takes those packets of data and translates them into a printed document. • Pagers – A pager is a device that uses data services. It would take an incoming call by its tone and transfer that data into a readable digital message. This way the receiving person can then use that message to call back a person at the given number on the device. • VOIP (voice over IP) Phones – VOIP like Vonage uses Data services. One might think that voice services would be used seeing you are making a call, but it’s all done on a digital level. It takes your voice, transforms it into data that is then sent out and transformed back into voice at the receiving end. It...
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...Cell Phones: When cellular phones first came about they were all voice transmitting information in an analog format, similar to a fixed-line telephone. (Andrew Oliviero, 2012) Once the second generation of cell phones was introduced in the late 90s early millennium the transmission shifted from analog to digital. Aside from using voice, they introduced data which allows you to text or send an MSM to another person without actually talking. Think of using AOL or MSN messenger back in the day on your computer except through your cell phone. Now we are up to 4G which allows more data, applications, and a stronger connection. A minicomputer in your pocket that allows you to talk, text, play games, email, GPS, varies applications such as counting your calorie intake for you. Fax Machine: Fax machines use voice to transfer data. The fax would be connected to a Voice over IP line if it could, but that specific data transfer was not designed to carry fax, therefor fax over VoIP is not reliable. You would lose data packets because UDP would simply ignore it, and VoIP uses UDP packets to send voice data to the phone line. Pagers: In the beginning pagers only used the data networks sending just numbers from the control system to the devices. Then over time the pagers systems changed by using both voice and data network with sending voice messages to the pagers. Each station covers a wide area range from 15 to 30 miles. The page is transmitted over RF by the transmitter. Different...
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...Unit 1 Assignment 1 voice vs data Dominic Hennen Cell phones use a both voice and data networks you can speak which is going out over the voice network. You will also be using the data network for all your internet surfing as well as your text messages and pictures been sent as well, Landline phones use a voice network for talking to other people over the network on the older internet before high-speed internet they also sent data but that technology has fallen to the wayside with the takeover of high speed internet. SMS/text messaging are using the data network so you can send pictures and just text to another person much in the way a email will work just text no voice. Fax Machines send data by compressing the image that was scanned and sending it out over the line the fax receives and sends digital tones and this is how the communicate with one another. Pagers are a telecommunication device but are data networks there are no voice being transmitted over the proses. Some pagers will send a voice recording instead of a call back number… VoIP is a data network allowing you to talk to other individuals on the phone but it sends your voice over a high-speed internet connection and will communicate with a voice only network both side of the conversation doesn’t have to be VoIP. Skype/FaceTime is data networks allowing you to broadcast your live picture to another end user. Live video is not possible over a voice...
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...Assignment 1. Voice vs. Data Cell phones use both voice and data networks. Both of these networks can use the same antenna. Cellular networks allow automatic and persuasive use of mobile phones for voice and data communication even though you usely use a cell phone to talk on it, the new cell phone killer app is data. Landlines phones use both voice and data networks. They work by transmitting voice and data signals by copper wire. Landlines refer to a phone that uses a solid medium telephone line such as a metal wire or fiber optic cable for transmission. In 2003 there was 1.263 billion main telephone lines worldwide. SMS/Text messaging known as short messages use a data network. SMS is a service component of phone, web, or mobile communication systems. It uses standardized communication protocols to allow fixed line or mobile phone devices to exchange messages using data application. Has an estimated 3.5 billion active users. Fax Machines use voice networks. With a fax line you plug into a fax terminal adapter, and then plugs into a network connection. They often share a phone extension and have a fax switch. You need to use a proper fax over IP protocol, such as T.38 to achieve consistent reliable faxing. Pagers are designed to receive the paging signals that are transmitted under control of the paging terminal. These paging signals are designed to carry pager-specific address information in order to alert an individual pager. Pagers use voice and data networks. VOIP...
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...Assignment 1 Voice vs. Data Cellular phone can operate and provide between the two carriers of network voice communication and data are link to the same tower where both signals are being transmitted and connected to a mobile telephone switching office (MTSO) but the only issue is data is being more optimize with newer mobile phones and mobile applications meaning the user is going to be burning a lot more data storage than expected. Landline are both equipped with the same network comparison, landlines are largely involve with point-to–point access between the scribers and the central office point order for the physical connection to correspond with each other now for other conventional landlines that’s being used for security and survival standards such as police officers, firefighters, and military units that undergo through a leased lined from a provider order to received data transmission by telecommunication from a data line. SMS/Text message or short message service are more involve in the data networking area where all text messages are usually displayed normally from cellular phones and computers, now there phones required installation application for voice communication text message that allows the user of the cellular phone to send a text by voice leaving your hands free this is a new way to encounter better texting methods for voice control order to send and receive information for cellular interaction. Fax Machine can be operated for both services of voice communication...
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...September 17, 2015 Voice vs. Data Cell phones- wireless phones served by a cellular telephone system broken into small geographical areas. It’s a two-way that carries full duplex conversations. Cell phones have evolve from 1G, which carries information similar to the way fixed line phones transmit voice from subscriber to central office to 4G network for fast access of the internet. It uses both voice and data networks. (woodward, 2012) Landline phones – Initially landline phones started as a device to transmit voice. While it didn’t seem like a good choice to transmit data, however, for many years it was subscribers’ only choice for transmitting data. SMS/Text messaging –The short messaging services (SMS) still works on voice networks. It is the mechanism of sending short messages over mobile networks. The message from the sending mobile is stored in a central SMS center which then forwards it to the destination. SMS can be no longer than 160 characters. (http://www.wirelessdevnet.com) Fax Machine – short for facsimile machine is a device that can send or receive pictures or text over a telephone line. It works by digitizing the image into grids of dots. The dot is either black or white representing on or off. (http://www.webopedia/TERM/fax-machine.html) VOIP (voice over IP) uses VOIP technologies for placing and transmitting calls over an IP network such as the internet, instead of the traditional public switch telephone network (PSTN). With VOIP analog voice calls are converted...
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...Cell Phones- Use a combination of Voice and Data network to communicate with the service provider. Depending on your service provider you will be using CDMA or GSM Technology which operates on the 850Mhz and 1900Mhz. CDMA is used by Sprint, Verizon Cellular, and U.S. Cellular. GSM is used by AT&T, T-Mobile, and operates with a SIM card in conjuncture with the phone’s IMEI. Landline phones- A Landline phones uses voice networks. Transmits signals converted from audio data through physical media. It does this via copper wire or fiber optic cables. There are 2 basic types of landlines, a corded landline and cordless landline. Also todays landlines can transfer data through Modems to connect to the Internet. SMS / Text Messaging- Works on a voice network. SMS is a very small data transmission that does not use a lot of bandwidth. Also this works on the big three GSM, CDMA and TDMA network technologies to make it a universal service. SMS allows for text messages of 160 characters. In other languages the size is limited to 70 characters such as Chinese or Arabic. Fax Machines- Fax machines uses a voice and data network that is transmitted through bits of voice tone data. Fax machines make a distinctive sound when transmitting information. With a photo sensor, a fax machine looks for white areas sending one tone. If it there were black areas it would send a different tone. Pagers- Are used on a voice network. Pagers use audio tone or vibrate to let the user know if...
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...Olivier Unit 1 Assignment 1 Voice vs. Data • Cell phones use data networks in order to function in its full potential. Without any network data, you wouldn’t be able to browse the web, view email, applications, etc… Data networks is what makes a smart phone possible. • Landline phones are used by voice networks because it needs to be directly plugged in, in order to function. The voice network for landline phones will always have good signal since is always plugged in. This is why landline use voice networks. • SMS / Text Messages is used with network data. To send out a SMS Text Message you’ll need network coverage. Depending on what type of phone sometimes you don’t need data to send out a text but you do need signal to do so. • Fax Machines uses the voice network in order to function. With voice network you can send out a fax by just dialing the number to your destination. This is how voice network is used with fax machines. • Pagers are used with network data. In order to page someone you’ll need data on the network in order to function. This is why pagers use network data. • VOIP (voice over IP) phones uses voice network to function. Their directly connected to the wall in order to function. This is why VOIP uses voice network. • Skype / Facetime uses network data to function. The application wouldn’t be able to function without data, which is why is needed in order...
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