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Data Communication Notes

Data communication involves the exchange of information between two devices through a transmission medium and consists of five key components: message, sender, receiver, transmission medium, and protocol. The effectiveness of a data communication system is determined by four characteristics: delivery, accuracy, timeliness, and jitter. These factors ensure that data is communicated correctly and efficiently.

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Data Communication Notes

Data communication involves the exchange of information between two devices through a transmission medium and consists of five key components: message, sender, receiver, transmission medium, and protocol. The effectiveness of a data communication system is determined by four characteristics: delivery, accuracy, timeliness, and jitter. These factors ensure that data is communicated correctly and efficiently.

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Data communication

Data communications are the exchange of data between to two devices via some transmission
medium. Data communication system has five components
1. Message- information (data) to be communicated e.g. text, audio, video.
2. Sender- device how sends the message (computer, phone, camera etc.)
3. Receiver- device how receives the message (computer, phone, television etc.)
4. Transmission medium – is the physical path by which a message travels from sender to
receiver.
5. Protocol – the set of rules that governs the data communication.
• Effectiveness of the data communications system depends on four fundamental
characteristics
1. Delivery- Must deliver the data to correct destination.

1. Accuracy- Must be delivered accurately without any error

1. Timeliness- Must deliver the data in a timely manner, sometime time in real time
applications data delivered after time is useless.

1. Jitter- Refers to variation in the packet arrival time i.e. the uneven delay between the
packets (mismatch in audio and picture in a video)

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