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STATISTICAL TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXING (STDM)

STDM IS CALLED STATISTICAL BECAUSE SELECTING THE TRANSMISSION SPEED FOR THE MULTIPLEXED CIRCUIT IS BASED ON A STATISTICAL ANALYSIS OF THE USAGE REQUIREMENTS OF THE CIRCUITS TO BE MULTIPLEXED. EACH TERMINAL WITH DATA TO TRANSMIT IS GIVEN A TIME SLOT, JUST AS WITH TDM, WHEREAS TERMINALS WITH NO DATA TO TRANSMIT ARE GIVEN NO TIME SLOT. STDM ALLOWS MORE TERMINALS OR COMPUTERS TO BE CONNECTED TO A CIRCUIT THAN FDM OR TDM. THE KEY BENEFIT OF STDM IS THAT IT PROVIDES MORE EFFICIENT USE OF THE CIRCUIT AND SAVE MONEY, YOU CAN BUY A LOWER SPEED, LESS EXPENSIVE CIRCUIT THAN YOU COULD USING FDM OR TDM. TDM DRIVE BY TIME AND STDM IS DRIVE BY DATA. STATISTICAL MULTIPLEXERS ARE MORE COMPLEX THAN TIME DIVISION MULTIPLEXERS. THEY PROVIDE BUFFERS, DATA COMPRESSION, ACCUMULATION OF NETWORK PERFORMANCE STATISTICS, REPORTING OF THE STATISTICS, SUPPORT FOR DIGITAL DATA, AND INTEGRATED MODEM CAPABILITIES.

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