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Foil 5 Baseband vs. Broadband

From Introduction To Multimedia Internet Systems CPS640 MultiMedia and WWW -- Spring 97 Semester. by Marek Podgorny * See also color IMAGE
Baseband transmission
  • Electrical signal applied directly between the wires
    • example: Ethernet technology
  • Basic limitation: only one bit can be transmitted at any given time
  • Overall efficiency increased by Time Division Multiplexing (TDM)
    • Why? Idle time costs money....
    • TDM flavors: synchronous and asynchronous
  • Signal attenuation is a big problem for baseband networks

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