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• Guided
– Twisted Pair
– Cable
– Fiber
– Medium more important than the signal
• Unguided
– Atmosphere
– Outer Space
– Signal more important than the medium
Spectrum for telecommunications
Twisted Pair
• Analog
– Amplifiers required every 5-6 kilometers
– Bandwidth of 250KHz, carry a few voice channels
• Susceptible to noise, shielded and unshielded
• Compared to optical and coax twisted pair is limited in bandwidth,
distance, and data rate
Coaxial Cable
• Antennae
– Directional
• Focused EM beam
• The higher frequency the more focused
– Omnidirectional
• Lower frequency
• Spreads out to multiple receivers