Telephony-Technological+Aspects

=**Telephony-Technological Aspects**=

My research on telephony led me to expand of different types of communicative devices and how they worked. I thought it would be interesting to know more of the technical side, and so I focused more on that than other subject areas. I grouped my information into two areas: wired communication and wireless communication. I then expanded into different areas from there and discussed on the technical aspects of each technology.

Stage 1
I started off with a bit of what I knew, and started researching a bit. [|kiend_telephony_-initial.jpg]

Stage 2
By now my research is complete and all information is mapped out. I ended up leaning towards more of the technical side than social and economic aspects. [|kiend_telephony1.jpg]

Stage 3
Now that I have all the points down, I started to organize the cmap [|kiend_telephony-2.jpg]

Stage 4
Last stage for organizing. [|kiend_telephony-4.jpg]

Stage 5
In this image I was scribbling ideas on title, line and arrow treatments. I started to get some inspiration from electrical circuit diagrams. [|Click here]

Stage 6
I then printed out a scaled down cmap and started to figure out how I'd like to present the information. Here I'm exploring colours and title treatments. I finally decided to incorporate the phone jack with my title. I then started trying to make other versioin for subheads. [|click here]

Stage 7
So now with my thoughts organized. I printed another scaled down cmap, with new adjustments in the organization of the info. I decided to have red, yellow and blue as my 3 main colours. I thought it would work out well since it connotes the colour of wires. To group the major areas of my topic, I thought having diagonal and vertical lines would help. I also thought colouring the lines to show how some aspects of telephony intersect. [|click here.]

Stage 8
I finally decided to not go with the patterned background because it would be too busy. I switched some colours around to create a better visual balance. To see different groups and conveyed that through colours, boxes, and size of fonts. [|kiend-p1-cmaps_final.jpg]

Bibliography:

 * "Analog, Digital - What's the Difference?".Wireless Advisor. 15 Jan 2008 
 * Brain, Marshall. "How telephones work". PGiConnect. 8 Jan 2008 
 * Burke, Morgan. "Walkie Talkie". 8 Jan 2008 
 * Layton, Julia, Marshall Brain,and Jeff Tyson. "How cell phones work". PGiConnect. 8 Jan 2008 
 * Noll, Michael A. I__ntroduction to Telephones and Telephone System__s. Norwood: Artech House: 1991.
 * "The Walkie-Talkie". Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 15 Jan 2008 
 * "What are monophonic, polyphonic and true tone ringtones?". 15 Jan 2008 
 * "What is 5.8 GHz DSS frequency hopping technology?". 16 Jan 2008 