International Telecommunications Energy Conference Washington - October 1982; Future Trends in Switching
John Tippler · 1982
The communications environment is changing more rapidly than ever before. Technical advance within communications systems is only one factor. Almost more important is the advance in electronic and computer-based systems in office and home, which will increasingly demand intercommunication. Although telephony still dominates, switching engineers find themselves facing the need to switch a widening variety of communications. The result is the emergence of proposals for integrated services networks and for new switching techniques to handle them. These and other influences are reviewed speculatively.