Information transfer
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In telecommunications, information transfer is the process of moving messages containing user information
from a source to a sink
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Note: The information transfer rate may or may not be equal to the transmission
modulation rate.
User information
User information is information transferred across the functional interface between a source user and a telecommunications system for delivery to a destination user.In telecommunications systems, user information includes user overhead information....
from a source to a sink
Sink (computing)
In computing, a sink or event sink is a class or function designed to receive incoming events from another object or function. This is commonly implemented in C++ as callbacks. Object-oriented languages, such as Java and C#, have built-in support for sinks by allowing events to be fired to...
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Note: The information transfer rate may or may not be equal to the transmission
Transmission (telecommunications)
Transmission, in telecommunications, is the process of sending, propagating and receiving an analogue or digital information signal over a physical point-to-point or point-to-multipoint transmission medium, either wired, optical fiber or wireless...
modulation rate.
See also
- Federal Standard 1037CFederal Standard 1037CFederal Standard 1037C, titled Telecommunications: Glossary of Telecommunication Terms is a United States Federal Standard, issued by the General Services Administration pursuant to the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949, as amended....
in support of MIL-STD-188MIL-STD-188MIL-STD-188 is a series of U.S. military standards relating to telecommunications.-Purpose:Faced with “past technical deficiencies in telecommunications systems and equipment and software…that were traced to basic inadequacies in the application of telecommunication standards and to the lack of a...
. - information exchangeInformation exchangeInformation exchange is an informal term that can either refer to bidirectional information transmission/information transfer in telecommunications and computer science or communication seen from a system-theoretic or information-theoretic point of view....
- communication channel
- data transmissionData transmissionData transmission, digital transmission, or digital communications is the physical transfer of data over a point-to-point or point-to-multipoint communication channel. Examples of such channels are copper wires, optical fibres, wireless communication channels, and storage media...