telephone exchange

Noun

Meaning

any equipment that establishes connections between telephones

the rooms housing such equipment

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

central cental exchange

Hyponyms

plugboard patchboard centrex

Examples

Acoustic telephone ad, The Consolidated Telephone Co., Jersey City, NJ 1886 At first, the benefits of a telephone exchange were not exploited. Source: Internet

IDFs are used for telephone exchange central office, customer-premises equipment, wide area network (WAN), and local area network (LAN) environments, among others. Source: Internet

In 1880, two telephone companies namely The Oriental Telephone Company Ltd. and The Anglo-Indian Telephone Company Ltd. approached the Government of India to establish telephone exchange in India. Source: Internet

By 1986 China had nearly 3 million telephone exchange lines, including 34,000 long-distance exchange lines with direct, automatic service to 24 cities. Source: Internet

Cables usually bring a large number of drop wires from all over a district access network to one wire center or telephone exchange. Source: Internet

During the 20th century, "common battery" operation came to dominate, powered by "talk battery" from the telephone exchange over the same wires that carried the voice signals. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

telephone desk telephone dial telephone directory telephone extension telephone girl telephone interview