Course detail
Transmission Media
FEKT-BPA-PRMAcad. year: 2021/2022
The course covers topics related to the physical layer of telecommunication networks - an introduction to transmission media, wire and wireless transmission, coaxial cables, twisted pair, optical fibers, basic assembly procedures, transmission and propagation of waves in transmission media, multiplexing techniques, measurements, examples of networks based on different media types.
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Offered to foreign students
Learning outcomes of the course unit
- understand the types of transmission media,
- propose a suitable type of transmission medium for connection,
- design a topology for information transfer,
- design technology connecting copper cables,
- design technology connecting optical cables,
- perform basic measurements on the transmission media,
- be able to locate faults on cables.
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Planned learning activities and teaching methods
Assesment methods and criteria linked to learning outcomes
Course curriculum
2. Transmission and propagation of waves in media
3. Wired and wireless transmission
4. Coaxial cables
5. Twisted pair
6. Optical fibers I.
7. Optical fibers II.
8. Media termination and cross-connection
9. Multiplexing techniques
10. Measurement and evaluation of network quality
11. The installation and cabling
12. Methods of documentation and search for undegroud cables - metalic, fibres
13. Network examples based on different media types
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Aims
Specification of controlled education, way of implementation and compensation for absences
Recommended optional programme components
Prerequisites and corequisites
Basic literature
FILKA, Miloslav. Transmission media for Telecommunication. Brno, 2014 (EN)
Recommended reading
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Type of course unit
Lecture
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Syllabus
Metallic cables
Optical cables
Cable manufacturing procedures
Laying, connecting and assembly methods
Metropolitan, access, and transport networks
Cable and terminals interface
Frequency dependence in links
Cable protection
Digital and xDSL systems and link selection
Optical fibres for wave multiplex selection
Take-over, preventive and fault measurement for cable
Elements of optical networks, network examples
Laboratory exercise
Teacher / Lecturer
Syllabus
Parameter measurement with image meter
Resistance unbalance measurement
Operation capacitance and capacitance asymmetry measurement
Crosstalk measurement
Optical fibre measurement
Optical fibre transmission system
OTDR - optical measurement
Pulse fault measurement
Cable detector
Localization measurement
Circuit design and measurement
Structured cabling measurement