The carrier that handles intra-LATA services is called a __________.

The services offered by the common carriers (telephone companies) inside a LATA are called ___________ services

™The telephone network has several levels of switching offices such as end offices, __________offices, and regional offices

The services between LATAs are handled by _____________.

The _______________ is responsible for setting up voice calls in SS7

The signaling network also includes a SCP that controls the whole operation of the network. SCP stands for ______

The signaling network uses nodes called STPs that receive and forward signaling messages. STP stand for ________

A telephone network today can be thought of as two networks: a data transfer network and

a ________ network

The user telephone or computer is connected to the SPs. SP stand for _______

™MTP stands for ____________

The protocol now used in the PSTN signaling network is called ____________.

Communication inside a LATA is handled by end switches and _________ switches

In out-of-band signaling, a portion of the ________ channel bandwidth was used for signaling; the voice bandwidth and the signaling bandwidth were separate.

The signaling network is a ____________ network involving the layers similar to those in the OSI model or Internet model.

In ________ signaling, same circuit can be used for both signaling and voice communication

Each IXC that wants to provide inter-LATA services in a LATA must have a _____ in that LATA

Complete the acronym LATA

The telephone network, at its beginning, used a _________ network with dedicated links to transfer voice communication

The effective bandwidth of a telephone line being used for data transmission is __________ Hz