lecture01: Introduction and brief history of telecoms

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Topics covered

• Why do we need design?
• ... Without Design
• Motivation
• Wider Motivation %
• Outline
• Focus
• Course objectives
• Not covered
• A brief history of networking
• Pre-industrial
• 19th century
• Dumb network design
• A switch
• Switchboards
• Electromechanical switch
• Towards modern telephony
• Some additional links