Exam 2: Technical Foundations of Modern Communication

______ is the term associated with a communications line's channel capacity (capability to relay a given volume of information in a specific time period).

Your company is designing a new, compact video camera. To save space and weight, you will use solid-state chips called ________.

A ______ links a computer with a standard, voice-grade telephone line.

The term "hertz" refers to a signal's ______.

The television sets and telephones we use at home are digital in nature: we can directly process their digital data.

An integrated, digital communications network that can carry a range of information, is the______.8

Standards in the communications field generally promote the development and acceptance of a new technology and its applications.

The electromagnetic spectrum is a finite resource. The more we use it, the more it is depleted, forever (as is the case with oil, etc.).

One of the most popular and important transmission/communications lines is the ______ line.

In general, an analog communications system is more reliable and requires much less maintenance than a comparable digital system.

In our communications system, the spectrum can be viewed as a financial commodity.

When a black and white video camera's signal is digitized, the information represents steps/levels of the __________ scale.