CONTENTS

 1     Scope
 2     References
 3     Application of ITU-T Recommendations on telephone performance to national networks
 4     National transmission plan
 5     Attenuation distortion
 6     Circuit noise
        6.1     Noise induced by power lines
        6.2     Noise contributed by transmission systems
                  6.2.1     Analogue systems
                  6.2.2     Use of companders to control noise on analogue systems
                  6.2.3     Digital system
                  6.2.4     Mixed circuits
        6.3     Noise in a national 4-wire automatic exchange
                  6.3.1     Analogue 4-wire automatic exchanges
                  6.3.2     Digital 4-wire automatic exchanges
        6.4     Noise allocation for a national system
                  6.4.1     General planning assumptions
                  6.4.2     Noise allocations for planning digital systems
                  6.4.3     Noise allocations for planning incremental analogue transport systems
 7     Error on the reconstituted frequency
 8     Group-delay distortion
 9     Linear crosstalk of circuits
10     Non-linear distortion of analogue transmission systems
11     Variations of transmission loss with time
Annex A – Noise allocation for a national system
        A.5     Large countries