Sunday, August 3, 2008

we've come a long way from smoke signs to today's technology devices


One can't help but be tremendously amazed at the wonders of today's telecommunication advancements. Distance has been bridged tremendously as communication from remote places. An astraunaut can communicate with ground crews with just a few seconds lag. A person from the Canada can talk, chat and view another from Australia or from Africa and all of them are in a tele-conference.

The process of ensuring communication between two parties is called telecommunication. It may be video, audio, online mails, instant messaging and there are many other formats. Telecommunication has become a big business market that billions and billions of dollars are being pumped into buying fiber optic communication equipments, research and development, phone advancements and advertisements in television, radio and other forms of mass communications.

What is the basic process of telecommunication? How complicated is the set-up of simple one? Any electrical professor can explain and implement a communication system and the different platforms that are needed to ensure reliable, fast and big capacity of such systems.

I got here a link to a great article.

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