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This document defines key terms related to telecommunication including transmission media, channels, receivers, senders, modulation, bandwidth, and telecommuting. Transmission media refers to the physical system used to carry communication signals such as cable. Channels are the paths between network nodes. Receivers are those who receive messages, while senders are those who initiate messages. Modulation adds information to carrier signals. Bandwidth refers to the amount of data or frequency range that can be transmitted. Telecommuting allows workers to work remotely by transmitting data via telephone lines.

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This document defines key terms related to telecommunication including transmission media, channels, receivers, senders, modulation, bandwidth, and telecommuting. Transmission media refers to the physical system used to carry communication signals such as cable. Channels are the paths between network nodes. Receivers are those who receive messages, while senders are those who initiate messages. Modulation adds information to carrier signals. Bandwidth refers to the amount of data or frequency range that can be transmitted. Telecommuting allows workers to work remotely by transmitting data via telephone lines.

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CAPE

Information Technology

Syllabus Focus: Unit 1 Module 1 Content 13


Specific Objective 13: explain the meaning of terms related to telecommunication;

Content: Transmission media, channels, receivers, senders, modulation, bandwidth;


telecommuting.

Transmission Media
Describes the type of physical system used to carry a communication signal from one system to
another. Examples of transmission media include twisted-pair cable, coaxial cable, and fiber
optic cable.

Channels
Also referred to as a transmission channel, the path between two nodes of a network that a data
communication follows. The term can refer to the physical cabling that connects the nodes on a
network, the signal that is communicated over the pathway or a subchannel in a carrier
frequency.

Receivers
In the communication process, the receiver is the listener, reader, or observer--that is,
the individual (or the group of individuals) to whom a message is directed. Another name
for receiver is audience or decoder.
The person who initiates a message in the communication process is called the sender. Put
simply, an effective message is one that's received in the way that the sender intended.

Senders
In the communication process, thesender is the individual who initiates a message. Also called
the communicatoror source.
The sender may be a speaker, a writer, or someone who merely gestures. The individual (or the
group of individuals) who responds to the sender is called the receiver or audience.

Modulation
Modulation is the addition of information to an electronic or optical carrier signal. A carrier
signal is one with a steady waveform -- constant height (amplitude) and frequency. Information
can be added to the carrier by varying its amplitude, frequency, phase, polarization(for optical
signals), and even quantum-level phenomena like spin. 

Bandwidth
Bandwidth is defined as a range within a band of frequencies or wavelengths. Bandwidth is also
defined as the amount of data that can be transmitted in a fixed amount of time.
For digital devices, the bandwidth is usually expressed in bits per second(bps) or bytes per
second. For analog devices, the bandwidth is expressed in cycles per second, or Hertz (Hz).

CAPE NOTES Unit 1 Module1 Content 13 1


The bandwidth is particularly important for I/O devices. For example, a fast disk drive can be
hampered by a bus with a low bandwidth. This is the main reason that new buses, such as AGP,
have been developed for the PC.

Telecommuting
A term coined by Jack Nilles in the early 1970s to describe a geographically dispersed office
where workers can work at home on a computer and transmit data and documents to a central
office via telephone lines. A major argument in favor of telecommuting over vehicular
commuting is that it does not produce air pollution. In addition, many people are more
productive working at home than in an office. For others, however, the contrary holds true.

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http://grammar.about.com/od/rs/g/Sender.htm,
http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/modulation,
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/B/bandwidth.html,
http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/T/telecommuting.html., retrieved on July 14, 2016

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