Technical Words

• Telecommunications - Electronic exchange of any type of data with variety of information transmitting technologies and systems.
• Bandwidth - The capacity of data that can be transmitted in a given amount of time.
• Latency - The time taken for a message to travel from the sender to the receiver.
• Signal Bouncing - The receiver of a wireless signal can bounce the signal back to the transmitter.
• Token - Frame of data transmitted between network points, used to identify the sender and receiver of a message.
• Terminator - Device attached to end-points of bus/daisy-chain network. Purpose is to absorb signals so do not reflect back down the line.
• Signal Reflection - The reflection of a signal from a boundary between two different media.
• Transmission Medium - Communication channel that transmits information from the source/transmitter to the receiver.
• Nodes - Devices