More expensive

100 Mbps, 1 Gbps Ethernet

Glass or plastic fibers carrying light pulses, each pulse a bit

low error rate: repeaters spaced far apart, immune to electromagnetic noise

Signal carried in various "bands" in electromagnetic spectrum

No physical "wire"

Wirless radio: Broadcast, "half-duplex" (sender to receiver)

Propagation environment effects:

point-to-point; 45 Mbps

Use as line-of-sight transmission of data signals via atmosphere

Microwaves are radio waves that provide a high-speed signal transmission.

Microwave transmission offers low speed, cost-effectiveness and ease implementation

Satellite transmission is a form of microwave transmission in which a satellite acts as the relay
station

Its basic components are earth stations, which send and receive signals

….. is the satellite components that receive the transmission from an earth.

Light carries data, more than 26,000 times the capacity of twisted pair

High-frequency radio waves, travels in straight line through the air

Microwave relay station in the sky, used by GPS devices

Solid copper core, more than 80 times the capacity of twisted pair

A … is any type of hardware capable of transmitting data, instructions, and information between a sending device and a receiving device

Modem stands for MOdulator/DEModulator