Advances in Telecommunications and the Ongoing Revolution (NOT KNOWN IF PUBLISHED BECAUSE AUTHOR HAS LEFT AT&T)

Whether in our businesses or at home, we have come to view the telephone as a necessity of contemporary life. Quality communications anytime, anywhere is the expected norm for our society today. Technology advances, especially since World War II, have permitted the development of a telecommunications network that is unrivalled in complexity by any other modern man-made effort. This network is a vast interconnection of computer-like elements called switches which route not only voice calls, but also data calls that link computers together.