Computer Science GCSE
Transmission media
What Transmission media means in Computer Science GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Transmission media
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Reference: OCR
The path that carries the signals, such as copper cable using electrical signals, fibre optic cable using light, or wireless using radio waves.
Topics that use Transmission media
- Networks and topologies (OCR GCSE)
Related terms
- Bandwidth
- Cloud computing
- Domain name resolution
- Examples of LANs and WANs in everyday life
- Hosting and service provision
- LAN
- Mesh topology
- Networks and interconnection
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