Digital technology in the telephone network is nothing new. Take all the relays in older exchanges as an example. Relays are either "off" or "on", and there is no state in between these. Suitable combinations of relays could build up and "remember" numbers - perhaps a far-fetched example, but in was digital, so it will serve!
Telecommunications (in European languages derived from the Greek tele means far communicare of Latin and means notice) described in a general way all forms of information exchange through a certain distance without having to carry this information to a specific way (eg mail). The visible signal was used in the 18th century as the expression system of the letters by hand or two flags placed in a certain position (semaphore) or optical machine press (heliograph) is an instrument communication by reflecting sunlight.
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A bit (binary digit) is the smallest unit of information
• N = 2n where N is the number of representations and n is the
number of bits (ex. ASCII, Unicode, PCM code etc.)
• Data communications transfer information using codes that
are transmitted as signals (either analog or digital)
• In general, analog lines provide a slow service that contains
high error rates.
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Serial communications is sufficiently complex that special chips have been designed to do the work of
forming and timing the strings of bits that comprise serial data. Such a chip is called a universal
asynchronous receiver transmitter or UART. Without UARTs, communications programming would
be very complicated. The IBM family of microcomputers use the Intel 8250 UART.
The Intel 8250 is a programmable Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter packaged in a 40-
pin integrated circuit.
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