group06_Bandwidth Brothers : Transmission Media

Transmission media is the state which propagates energy waves. The state may be solid,liquid or gas. Our team will stress more on transmission media in networking as it is will be more useful for our subject. In our talk we would like to show visually the media type categories if possible and talk about it. The three main media type categories according to us are copper cable ( like coaxial cable), wireless ( such as microwaves used in LAN,infrared) and finally fibre optics (most expensive among the three). According to us none of them can be considered “the best” cause each has different use in different situation. So according to the need or situation we have to choose the best media. Also suppose if one fails we must have another to back upon, cause if events such as earthquake occurs if one media fails to work the other must be ready to use.We will be focussing mainly on the five traditionally used transmission media and explain everything related to it in detail. We would also rate the performance of they types of transmission media after thorough analysis. We would also like to download applications of transmission media and give a small demonstration. The basic understanding of transmission media will provide a good base for students studying computer communication. So to make everyone understand the basics of transmission media would be our team’s main aim. The five main transmission media which we will be focussing is twisted pair(used for voice applications), coaxial cable, microwave, satellite and finally fibre.