Discussion
Ask a question about 'Signal regeneration' Start a new discussion about 'Signal regeneration' Answer questions from other users |
In telecommunications,
signal regeneration is
signal processingSignal processing is an area of systems engineering, electrical engineering and applied mathematics that deals with operations on or analysis of signals, in either discrete or continuous time...
that restores a
signalIn the fields of communications, signal processing, and in electrical engineering more generally, a signal is any time-varying or spatial-varying quantity....
, recovering its original characteristics.
The signal may be electrical, as in a
repeaterA repeater is an electronic device that receives asignal and retransmits it at a higher level and/or higher power, or onto the other side of an obstruction, so that the signal can cover longer distances.-Description:...
on a
T-carrierIn telecommunications, T-carrier, sometimes abbreviated as T-CXR, is the generic designator for any of several digitally multiplexed telecommunications carrier systems originally developed by Bell Labs and used in North America, Japan, and South Korea....
line, or
opticalOptical communication is any form of telecommunication that uses light as the transmission medium.An optical communication system consists of a transmitter, which encodes a message into an optical signal, a channel, which carries the signal to its destination, and a receiver, which reproduces the...
, as in an OEO
optical cross-connectAn optical cross-connect is a device used by telecommunications carriers to switch high-speed optical signals in a fiber optic network, such as an optical mesh network.There are several ways to realize an OXC:...
.