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| | Encyclopedia: Physical layer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20) |
 | | A transmission medium is any material substance, such as fiber-optic cable, twisted-wire pair, coaxial cable, dielectric-slab waveguide, water, or air, that can be used for the propagation of signals, usually in the form of modulated radio, light, or acoustic waves, from one point to another. |
 | | Source: from Federal Standard 1037C According to the IEEE 802 family of standards Media Access Control (MAC) is the lower sublayer of the OSI data link layer, the interface between a nodes Logical Link Control and the networks physical layer. |
 | | A modem (a portmanteau word constructed from modulator and demodulator) is a device that modulates an analog carrier signal (sound) to encode digital information, and also demodulates such a carrier signal to decode the transmitted information. |
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