Editing Automatic switching system

{{short description|Telephone exchange equipment}}

In [[data communication]]s, an '''automatic switching system''' is a [[switching system]] in which all the operations required to execute the three phases of [[Information transfer]] transactions are automatically executed in response to signals from a [[User (telecommunications)|user]] end-instrument.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Malthaner |first=W. A. |last2=Vaughan |first2=H. Earle |date=May 1952 |title=An experimental electronically controlled automatic switching system |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6773015 |journal=The Bell System Technical Journal |volume=31 |issue=3 |pages=443–468 |doi=10.1002/j.1538-7305.1952.tb01391.x |issn=0005-8580|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 

In an automatic switching system, the [[information-transfer transaction]] is performed without human intervention, except for initiation of the [[access phase]] and the [[disengagement phase]] by a user.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Glover |first=S. |date=November 1966 |title=Automatic Switching at the Edmonton Television Studios |url=https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7262919/;jsessionid=oWCXIZigMGgiKnqWxZsJFrrkasGdiggnQz-0pMlF7QaegEMBZMGN!-1337616142 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220624191319/https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7262919/;jsessionid=oWCXIZigMGgiKnqWxZsJFrrkasGdiggnQz-0pMlF7QaegEMBZMGN!-1337616142 |url-status=dead |archive-date=June 24, 2022 |journal=Journal of the SMPTE |volume=75 |issue=11 |pages=1089–1092 |doi=10.5594/J05892 |issn=0361-4573|url-access=subscription }}</ref> 

In [[telephony]], it refers to a [[telephone exchange]] in which all the operations required to set up, [[Line signaling|supervise]], and release connections required for [[telephone call]]s are automatically performed in response to signals from a calling device.  This distinction lost importance as [[telephone switchboard|manual switching]] declined during the 20th century.

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