Transmission and Switching: Cornerstones of a Network
Roger L. Freeman · 1999
Transmission provides the transport of a signal from an end-user source to the destination such that the signal quality at the destination meets certain performance criteria. Switching selects the route to the desired destination that the transmitted signal travels by the closing of switches either in the space domain or the time domain or some combination(s) of the two. This chapter presents a discussion of the concepts of transmission and switching.