Traffic Service Position System No. 1: Remote Trunk Arrangement: Overall Description and Operational Characteristics

Abstract

This paper is an introduction to the Remote Trunk Arrangement feature of the Traffic Service Position System. The design permits the tsps trunk circuit, which connects the subscriber to the operator, to be located in a distant, rural location. All the logic, records, control, and centralized access to the operators remains at the base unit. The Remote Trunk Arrangement is controlled over a data link and up to eight rta subsystems can be extended from a single tsps base unit. The addition of the rta feature, expansion of the geographical area served by tsps, and the necessity for handling special operator service traffic, affected several tsps design parameters and required the addition of several new features. These supporting features and the operational characteristics and design aims of rta are described.