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Foil 4 Physical Data Transmission

From Introduction To Multimedia Internet Systems CPS640 MultiMedia and WWW -- Spring 97 Semester. by Marek Podgorny * See also color IMAGE
Aerial systems: surface transmission and satellite transmission
  • both less reliable (higher error rates) as compared to cable/fiber
  • high latency (~540 msec) for satellite transmission lines
  • limited frequency domain and, hence, global transmission capacity
  • significant chunk of global capacity assigned to analog transmission

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