Multiplexing - Tanenbaum 2, pg. 118 / Stallings 7, pg. 197

• Issue:

  cost of laying wire >> cost of wire
  
  economy: use high bandwidth wire, multiplex many conversations on it

• Typical use:

  telephone companies (lines between switching offices)
  
  local area networks

• Two basic ways to multiplex:

  FDM (Frequency Division Multiplexing)
  
  TDM (Time Division Multiplexing)

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