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Peter Cochrane

EVEN some professionals in the communications industry seem to have difficulty reconciling the attributes of radio, satellite, metal and optical fibre cables. Not surprising then, there is also a general state of confusion and lack of comprehension in the media. At a superficial level this subject is relatively straightforward, but at the deepest levels of sophistication it still defeats the best brains and machines. Most people overlook the most important question: what do we want to realise? Should
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By sampling speech (or any other analogue signal) and quantising into discreet levels, it may be coded into a series of numbers that can be transmitted as a bit stream. By interleaving many such...

In telecommunications we currently use copper and fibre cables, free space optics, terrestrial and satellite radio as the traffic lanes for bits. The way we organise information on these bearers...

Most telecommunication networks are still designed as if the constraints of the copper and radio past were still with us: compress the signal; save bandwidth; minimise hold times; continue with the...

With the exception of the ) and games machines, electronics in the home has seen little fundamental change since the 1930s. Radio, television and hi-fi are still dominated by analogue technology for...

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