PSTN
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PSTN (plural PSTNs)
(telecommunications) Initialism of Public switched telephone network.
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At the time, 'CAS' inter node signaling was slow and inter-register signaling MF5, developed from PSTN signalling protocols, was complex and would not support sufficient features.
CDLP customer premises equipment (CPE) was capable of both PSTN (telephone network) and radio frequency (cable network) return paths.
A motivating goal for SIP was to provide a signaling and call setup protocol for IP-based communications that can support a superset of the call processing functions and features present in the public switched telephone network (PSTN).
Commonly used are DTMF broadcasts over phone lines (direct connection or standard PSTN ) or over radio broadcast.
If a subscriber dials digit "8" (prefix of the long-distance connection in the national PSTN) all further processing of the call is a function of a toll exchange.
E.163 E.163 was the former ITU-T recommendation for describing telephone numbers for the public switched telephone network (PSTN).