glossary:communication_link
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+ | ====== Communication Link ====== | ||
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+ | In networking, a // | ||
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+ | There are many different types of links. For example you might be using an [[wifi|IEEE 802.11]] (WiFi) wireless link to connect your computers at home to your [[broadband|broadband connection]]; | ||
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+ | If you are reading this glossary entry in a web browser running on your laptop at home, the [[http|Hypertext Transmission Protocol]] (HTTP) messages exchanged between your browser and the Blackboard programme running on a web server at the University will have required messages to pass through many different links and will have used several different forms of [[link_medium|transmission media]]. Two important link properties are its [[bandwidth]] (which defines its [[transmission delay]]) and the end-to-end distance of the [[host]] or [[router]] connection points (which defines its [[propagation delay]]). | ||
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