Questions

1. Why are the wires twisted in twisted-pair copper wire?

2. What is the difference between data and signals?
3. What are the main advantages of digital signals over analog signals?
4. What is the spectrum of a signal?
5. What is the bandwidth of a signal?
6. Why would analog data have to be modulated onto an analog signal?
7. Why is multiplexing so cost-effective?
8. Why is a statistical time-division multiplexer more efficient than a synchronous time
division multiplexer?
9. Explain how synchronous time-division multiplexing (TDM) works.
10. Differentiate between guided media and unguided media.
11. Differentiate between an analog and a digital electromagnetic signal.
12. What are three important characteristics of a periodic signal?
13. What is attenuation?
14. What key factors affect channel capacity?