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Transmission media refers to the communication channels that carry information from sender to receiver, utilizing electromagnetic signals. It operates at the Physical layer of the OSI model and can be categorized into wired and wireless media, each with distinct characteristics affecting bandwidth, transmission impairment, and interference. Key factors for designing transmission media include bandwidth, transmission impairment, and interference, which influence data transmission quality and rates.

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Transmission Media-Invert

Transmission media refers to the communication channels that carry information from sender to receiver, utilizing electromagnetic signals. It operates at the Physical layer of the OSI model and can be categorized into wired and wireless media, each with distinct characteristics affecting bandwidth, transmission impairment, and interference. Key factors for designing transmission media include bandwidth, transmission impairment, and interference, which influence data transmission quality and rates.

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What is Transmission media?

Transmission media is a communication channel that carries the information from the sender
to the receiver. Data is transmitted through the electromagnetic signals.

The main functionality of the transmission media is to carry the information in the form of bits
through LAN(Local Area Network).

It is a physical path between transmitter and receiver in data communication.

In a copper-based network, the bits in the form of electrical signals.

In a fibre based network, the bits in the form of light pulses.

In OSI(Open System Interconnection) model, phase, transmission media supports the Layer 1.
Therefore, it is considered to be as a Layer 1 component. The transmission media is available in the lowest
layer of the OSI reference model, i.e., Physical layer.
The electrical signals can be sent through the copper wire, fibre optics, atmosphere, water, and
vacuum.

The characteristics and quality of data transmission are determined by the characteristics of
medium and signal.

Transmission media is of two types are wired media and wireless media. In wired media,
medium characteristics are more important whereas, in wireless media, signal characteristics
are more important.

Different transmission media have different properties such as bandwidth, delay, cost and ease
of installation and maintenance.

The transmission media is available in the lowest layer of the OSI reference model, i.e.,
Physical layer.

Some factors need to be considered for designing the transmission media:

Bandwidth: All the factors are remaining constant, the greater the bandwidth of a medium,
the higher the data transmission rate of a signal.

Transmission impairment: When the received signal is not identical to the transmitted one
due to the transmission impairment. The quality of the signals will get destroyed due to
transmission impairment.

Interference: An interference is defined as the process of disrupting a signal when it travels


over a communication medium on the addition of some unwanted signal.

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