Wednesday, 7 March 2012

It's all about DATA TRANSMISSION

It's a new week again! Time to update my blog after my Telecommunication & Networking class. Well, today we learnt about data communication.

Data Communication is the collection and distribution of the electronic representation of information FROM and TO remote facilities by means of electrical transmission system.
For example, telephone lines, satellites or coaxial cable.
The structures of Coxial Cable

Data can be on a variety of styles: text, pic, etc
All this type of info needs to be CONVERTED into signal that can be understood by the communication media in order to transmit the data.



Types of signal : Analogue signal & Digital signal



Digital signal
Transmission of binary electrical/light pulses that only have to possible states 0 and 1 = this is the language of computers (represent of a square wave). 


      The process of changing ANALOGUE to DIGITAL signal = Modulation
       The process of changing DIGITAL to ANALOGUE signal = Demodulation
       Hardware that used in computer to do this process----> Modem


Table below shows the binary digit



Next, we proceeded to the data transmission mode.
It can be divided into serial transmission and parallel transmission.

In short, serial transmission transmits all the bits one after another on a single line. This style is a bit slower compared to parallel transmission. However, in parallel transmission, a group of bits is transmitted simultaneously by using a separate line for each bit. 



The figure below show the two types of serial transmission mode. 
In asynchronous transmission, a groups of bits can be sent at any time and receiver never knows when they will arrive. 



Flow of data




Little Reflection of the day
After the lesson, I understand that the importance and how useful the transmission of data in our daily life. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Any transmission is at your own risk. So it is important for us to do our best to protect our own personal data.  


Last but not least, I would like to share an awesome video with you all =) Let's enjoy!! 



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