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Portuguese to English translations [Non-PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Telecom(munications) / materia acadêmica | | Portuguese term or phrase: Centrais Telefônicas | | I am translating an academic transcript for a telecommunications degree, and one course near the end of the degree is called "Centrais Telefônicas". How would this be translated into English? |
| Brian HaileyKudoZ activityQuestions: 15 (none open) ( 2 without valid answers) Answers: 3
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| | Telephone exchange | Explanation:
In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange
What is your local telephone exchange, what does it do and how does it work.
http://www.broadbandwatchdog.co.uk/telephone-exchange.php
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Note added at 17 mins (2010-06-11 20:24:15 GMT)
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As an electrical engineer with telecommunications experience, I believe exchange is the correct term. Switchboard is just an old fashioned manually operated PABX and "center" does not describe the actual equipment that does the call routing. |
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 Ward Whittaker
Brazil
Local time: 21:52
| Grading comment Very clear explanations in the links. Obrigado
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13 mins confidence:  peer agreement (net): +3 Telephone exchange
Explanation:
In the field of telecommunications, a telephone exchange or telephone switch is a system of electronic components that connects telephone calls. ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_exchange
What is your local telephone exchange, what does it do and how does it work.
http://www.broadbandwatchdog.co.uk/telephone-exchange.php
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Note added at 17 mins (2010-06-11 20:24:15 GMT)
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As an electrical engineer with telecommunications experience, I believe exchange is the correct term. Switchboard is just an old fashioned manually operated PABX and "center" does not describe the actual equipment that does the call routing.
| Ward Whittaker
Brazil
Local time: 21:52
Works in field
Native speaker of:  English
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| | Grading comment | Very clear explanations in the links. Obrigado |
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