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telecommunications systems

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  In telecommunication
  Digital transmission is employed in order to achieve high reliability and because the cost of digital switching systems is much lower than the cost of analog systems. In order to use digital transmission, however, the analog signals that make up most voice, radio, and television…
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telephones

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  In telephone: From analog to digital transmission
  In digital transmission, which may also be carried over the coaxial and microwave systems, the telephone signals are first converted from an analog format to a quantized, discrete time format. The signals are then multiplexed together using time-division multiplexing (TDM), a method in which each digitized…
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